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Taking care of tax evaders

Sunday, 1 March 2015, 10:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Joseph Muscat and the Labour Party pride themselves on emphasising that this government has removed the statutory limitation (prescription) relative to corruption when holders of political office are...

Media feuds

Sunday, 1 March 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

I guess it was inevitable. Given Malta’s restricted market and the political magnetic field that we live in, media feuds are bound to occur every now and then. That the sound of flak and...

How to win at politics

Saturday, 28 February 2015, 17:37 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

Twenty five years of Nationalist administration have become as nothing.  Safe to say, we're back where we were in the 1970s and 1980s, re-living the same grievances and injustices.  Like a...

Muscat shows us how things are done

Friday, 27 February 2015, 08:21 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

“Waiting for Godot” is a play in two acts by Samuel Beckett in which two characters wait in vain for the arrival of Godot. The original French version was written in 1953 but the play...

The PN electorate is not stupid

Thursday, 26 February 2015, 17:50 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The revelation made by the Malta Independent that architects Michael Falzon and Ninu Zammit had hidden accounts in Switzerland brought about a political reaction from Dr Joseph Muscat. In defending...

A political class in crisis?

Thursday, 26 February 2015, 10:52 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

These last days have been eventful, to say the least, in terms of ‘politician’ scrutiny.  For as many years as I can remember, politicians have been accused of engaging in the...

Notebook

Thursday, 26 February 2015, 07:56 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

We are about to see illustrated the reason why somebody as politically committed and with the personality of Wenzu Mintoff should not have been made a judge. The Ombudsman has long been involved in a...

Swiss cheese

Thursday, 26 February 2015, 07:54 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Michael Falzon and Ninu Zammit, retired for some years from politics, are back in the news for the wrong reasons. Tax evasion and false declarations. They have tried to give some explanations....

Blame it all on Austin

Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 13:29 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

I was going to say that it was surprising that the Prime Minister’s initial reaction to the story carried in The Malta Independent on Sunday on Swiss Leaks was to defend Michael Falzon and Ninu...

Replenishing our voluntary sector

Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 07:58 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

With the expeditious changes that are affecting and transforming our society, it is becoming increasingly complex to manage our communities and consequently the impact is that some may fall by the...

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