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Trusts

Thursday, 2 February 2017, 07:49 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

An outcome of the Panama papers scandal will probably be the development of policies among European countries that would totally open up the structures by which trusts are run. These are legal...

Oh these young people

Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 08:08 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

These stories help us realise that instead of putting a black spot on everything young people do, we need to listen to the pain that quite a few are experiencing. The worst bit about most of these...

Knightly pillow fight

Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 08:05 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

As if the world is not bracing itself enough for the emerging onslaught from the Trump Administration in the United States, we are now awaiting the climax of a knightly condom pillow fight that has...

Il-hajt ta' Trump

Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 07:49 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Il-President Trump iddeċieda li jagħtiha għall-ħitan. Dak li jrid jibni biex jifred l-Istati Uniti minn mal-Messiku huwa ħajt tal-ġebel, ħajt li jrid jibni biex...

The EU and Malta’s fat cats and corruption

Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

In the past days two reports, prepared by two separate organisations, were released.  The scope and purpose of the reports are different, and both should be delved into objectively.  The...

Children suffering from cancer

Monday, 30 January 2017, 09:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Miriam Dalli

Research on cancer that affects children should be upgraded to deal with the growing numbers, Labour MEP Miriam Dalli said. In her vlog today, she calls upon European institutions to devolve more...

Zero sum game

Monday, 30 January 2017, 08:08 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

The Opposition and the Government, have as a result of the former’s intransigence and political hysteria, been driving into a cul-de-sac. The Opposition has every right to criticise and...

Dun Ġużepp Zammit

Monday, 30 January 2017, 08:07 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

On Wednesday 11th January, I attended the funeral Mass of Dun Ġużepp Zammit at Bormla’s Collegiate Church. I came to know Dun Ġużepp towards the end of his life, as a veteran...

ED ZL is getting touchy about Air Malta

Sunday, 29 January 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The tourism minister – ED ZL, as he wished to be known in one of his more playful moods on Facebook, before he was mocked to kingdom come – is in a very bitchy mood right now. And Robert...

It’s not Mario de Marco only

Sunday, 29 January 2017, 10:35 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

A week or so after Simon Busuttil was elected as Leader of the Nationalist Party I wrote that “the better man lost” but said that Dr Busuttil being ­— in my opinion — less...

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