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Danger in Paradise

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 10:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Our islands have often been called a little paradise or a jewel in the Mediterranean.  On tourist brochures, postcards, documentaries, historical accounts and even amongst us, its own...

Setting the record straight

Friday, 27 October 2017, 10:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Alex Muscat

Daphne Caruana Galizia was one of the most controversial women in Maltese history. She was neither a saint nor a villain. In one article she could do investigative journalism like no other, in the...

A sound basis for the future

Friday, 27 October 2017, 07:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Marlene Mizzi

The tragic event last week of the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia put a halt to all routine activities on these Islands. People simply had to stop and contemplate over the issue of the freedom of...

Waste disposal

Thursday, 26 October 2017, 07:19 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

I found a document that dates from some seventeen years back published by the Malta government of the time regarding the problem of waste disposal and how to deal with it. The analysis of the problem...

Stand up and be counted

Wednesday, 25 October 2017, 07:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

In the wake of the heinous car bombing that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, my Office within the Faculty issued a ‘statement’ following the execution of Daphne Caruana Galiziia, a...

Crocodile tears and the assassination of Daphne

Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 15:35 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Countless articles and opinions have been written about Daphne’s assassination last Monday, when the car she was driving was blown to smithereens. Many theories have been woven as to the...

Don’t cry for me, Malta

Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 08:04 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

It has never happened to me before. I have been writing regular newspaper columns since 1976 and it has always felt like the most natural thing to do. Words fly out of me, and the subject matter often...

Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.

Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 07:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally assassinated, but freedom of speech is not on its deathbed.  Last Sunday in Valletta, the people have demonstrated that they are prepared to fight tooth and...

Foreign workers

Monday, 23 October 2017, 07:49 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Figures I saw recently about foreign wokers in Malta were surprising. I knew they had increased, but hardly to this extent. In the year 2004, foreign workers accounted for 2.6 per cent of the...

Organized crime

Monday, 23 October 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia has dominated both local and international news. Despite the fact that Malta has had a number of car bombs attacks, this is the first car bomb of this type...

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