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The President's speech

Monday, 19 December 2016, 08:01 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

On the occasion of Republic Day, the President of Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca gave an excellent speech. She demonstrated well, how and where political behaviour in Malta has been overstepping all...

Is Archbishop Scicluna a PN agent?

Monday, 19 December 2016, 07:58 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna is currently in the news. There are some members of the Church who are not agreeing with his comments, which are seen as too political. There are others, on the Left,...

Two Heads of State meet, and one wears a black veil

Sunday, 18 December 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Malta’s Head of State travelled to the State of Vatican City yesterday, where she met its own Head of State. But the pro-government media and the Labour Party, which makes a point of being...

Facing up to cancer

Sunday, 18 December 2016, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

Last Saturday, the world was told that eminent restaurant guide writer AA Gill had died. The UK Sunday Times dedicated to his memory no fewer than four columns plus photograph on the front page,...

The farce continues

Sunday, 18 December 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Tomorrow, the Environment and Resources Authority will meet in public to consider the approval of an amendment to the IPPC permit regulating the operations of the power station at Delimara. It is an...

What a way to end the year

Saturday, 17 December 2016, 08:42 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

What a way to end the year.  Attacks on journalists, ministers racking up bar tabs like there’s no tomorrow off the back of the public, playing volleyball with scandals, tossing them back...

Aleppo, and sending migrants back

Friday, 16 December 2016, 10:56 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

What is happening in Aleppo should shame the whole world, Salvu Mallia says in his video blog today. The PN candidate says that there are people who make money from wars, and the situation in...

Fearne's list of things to do

Friday, 16 December 2016, 09:05 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Health minister Chris Fearne has made the news for promising his constituents that Labour will win with a 40,000 vote majority at the next general election. Fearne is already focusing on his electoral...

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