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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...

TTIP and so on

Thursday, 15 December 2016, 08:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

So much for the big controversies that developed these past two years about TTIP and so on: the agreements on investments and free trade which were being drawn up between the US and the EU, and...

'I have seen with my heart'

Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 07:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Dr Daniella Zerafa has recently been conferred a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Malta.  She is the first candidate to start and finish a doctorate with the Faculty for...

Minister Evarist Bartolo - the Pharisees and the Samaritans

Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Last Thursday, a public holiday, the Roman Catholic Church celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception, one of the most important Marian feasts in the liturgical calendar.   I had...

It-Torca

Monday, 12 December 2016, 10:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Qed noqorbu lejn tmiem ta' sena oħra. Inħarsu 'l quddiem u nippjanaw, iżda rridu u ma rridux inħarsu wkoll lura, ninnotaw u ngħidu bejna u bejn ruhna. Qed...

Transhipment

Monday, 12 December 2016, 08:01 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Now is the time to compile an overall strategy for transhipment as a viable economic activity for Malta. We need to reflect more about it. Yet, since the days of Lord Strickland, practically all...

Copyright reform: why, how and for whom?

Monday, 12 December 2016, 07:59 Last update: about 11 years ago Therese Comodini Cachia

Say 'copyright' and often citizens immediately think of how they are unable to access or share music, films, images and news and of the several times when they are faced with messages saying a...

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