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In brief

Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 08:12 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This is a melange of themes that grabbed my attention these last days.  Towers and some pretty streets We have been hearing about the need to sort out the chaos that has been...

Toni Bezzina tightens the nuts

Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 09:03 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Lately, the Nationalist PartyShadow Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Toni Bezzina, askedJoe Mizzi,Minister for Transport and the Infrastructure,a million euro question.  In the House, the...

Organised Pimping of Malta (OPM) sive l-Establishment.

Monday, 21 November 2016, 11:06 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Meta ħabbatt il-bieb tas-sajjieda Xlukkajri wegħdthom moll biex jekk xejn jipproteġilhom il-qxur tal-baħar tagħhom. Hekk kienu qaluli biex ngħid.  Jien...

Communications

Monday, 21 November 2016, 07:06 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

We still need to understand well, how and to what extent technological developments in communciations media have altered the models by which we send messages to each other on a personal basis, or via...

Evarist Bartolo: Gender Politics and the Co-Ed

Monday, 21 November 2016, 07:03 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

Gender politics in Malta has never been so strong as it is today, and this is partly due to America’s interference in our home affairs. The Obama administration was not happy with Ambassador...

This is how we know when the election will be

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 10:59 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Or rather, this is how we know that there won’t be an early general election, and that it will be after 31 October next year. The government has given those refugees who have temporary...

A week of turmoil and tension

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

When the Nationalist Party gathers together its delegates today in its usual bi-annual general council, it will do so after a week of intense internal angst. Two independent and unconnected...

Paceville: protecting the underdogs

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

As the short time allotted for public consultation on the proposed first draft of the Paceville Masterplan approaches its conclusion, it is time for some commonsense to prevail at the Planning...

Growing pains

Saturday, 19 November 2016, 09:23 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

Many parents in Malta, until a short time ago, and possibly, even now, raised their children in a strong authoritarian manner.  The “put-up” and “shut-up” method,...

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