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Heroes

Saturday, 28 May 2016, 08:02 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

In 1807, François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fuelled by hydrogen. In 1886, the first petrol- or gasoline-powered automobile, was invented by...

Palumbo, the Cottonera and lack of decorum

Saturday, 28 May 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Times of Malta (on-line version - 25-5-2016) considered a news item a post uploaded by Dr. Godfrey Farrugia on his Facebook Page aimed at denigrating the Palumbo Shipyard. The Directors of the...

Then there were two more chairs

Friday, 27 May 2016, 08:25 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

It has been three years since the last general election and, for the second time, the courts have decided that the PN is right and should be given two more seats in parliament. For me, the case has a...

'Keith Schembri and I', says the Prime Minister

Thursday, 26 May 2016, 10:57 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Prime Minister’s performance yesterday evening in parliament was disgraceful. Adopting a tone that can only be described as bitchy, he tossed spiteful remarks across the playground while...

European Commission on Malta

Thursday, 26 May 2016, 06:35 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Recommendations made by the European Commission regarding Malta’s economic management are interesting. They relate to how the economic structure we now have generates enough investment or less...

The Nationalist Party’s transport document

Thursday, 26 May 2016, 06:32 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The publication of the Transport document by the Nationalist Party got entrapped in political controversy for the wrong reasons with the result that it has lost the surprise element that such type of...

Teenage pregnancies – not all doom and gloom

Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 11:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

One issue that in one way or another is permanently wedged in our social psyche is ‘the family’.  In some way or another, this institution in our country retains high importance and...

The Three Muscat-eers

Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 10:09 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

“All for one and one for all” is the famous motto of The Three Musketeers, a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas. The theme of friendship is a vital ingredient throughout the whole book,...

Honesty in politics and elsewhere

Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 08:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

The current turbulent political climate, triggered by scandals of sorts in addition to the notorious Panama Papers scandal, which is far from a closed chapter, looks similar to a crate of rotten...

Recommendations

Monday, 23 May 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

We find ourselves at that period of the European semester when the European Commission, having examined the economies of the member states and issued its forecast for the rest of the year and for next...

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