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Reflections from Carthage

Sunday, 17 May 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

At the University of Carthage in Tunisia between Thursday and today the international community has been engaging with Tunisian civil society. The Fifth Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy -...

What about them?

Sunday, 17 May 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Jenny Pullicino Orlando

I wonder if anyone is actually looking at the statistics on disability and employment, because if they aren't, they really should be. We may think that these (seemingly) high political wrangles are...

Those who cared

Saturday, 16 May 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

The 18th of May marks the 10th anniversary since the passing away of Malta’s foremost environmentalist, Julian Manduca.   A year before, on August 3rd, 2004, aged 52, Maggie Borg also...

Patients’ dignity: what’s that?

Friday, 15 May 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Last weekend, an elderly lady and her family bitterly discovered what Joseph Muscat’s promise to be the best in Europe amounts to. On Saturday, the lady attended her grandson’s...

Where’s your courage, Konrad?

Thursday, 14 May 2015, 11:01 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

In the midst of senior police officers getting lucrative jobs in spite of committing shameful mistakes, a university about to be built in untouched land with the blessing of the government, including...

The American University saga continues

Thursday, 14 May 2015, 09:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

The PN’s reaction to the government’s decision against building a university on what is being termed as virgin land needs to be praised. However, the alternative sites proposed by the...

Memo to government: stop insulting our intelligence

Thursday, 14 May 2015, 07:54 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Three cabinet ministers – the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for Education – called a press conference post-haste yesterday and told the press...

Flowers at the prison

Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 08:46 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

A prison setting is no playing field.  We can call it a Correctional Facility till we turn blue in the face but the truth is that that some 560 individuals, some of whom are hardened...

Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan

Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 09:14 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

In Malta many people are quick to form an opinion on a wide range of issues.   Political controversy is never short and may be considered as a national hobby.  Some issues, people take...

A government of secrets

Monday, 11 May 2015, 11:26 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

The mystery surrounding the building of a new university in the south of Malta is only the latest in a series of events about which the government was not truthful with the people. It says something,...

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