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MPs’ absenteeism

Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 09:31 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

It is a headache for SMEs to record workers attendance at the place of work.  It is even more frustrating to curb abuse.  To curb absenteeism a policy that clearly sets the parameters which...

Dom Mintoff’s gift to Opposition MPs

Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 07:43 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The way our parliamentary members acted regarding the Bill to eliminate vilification from being a criminal offence has given me the opportunity to further research past parliamentary debates and...

Momentum

Monday, 15 August 2016, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Confirmation from the latest published European data that the momentum of the Maltese economy has been maintained, reinforces business confidence. This will in itself serve to generate further...

Eurovision and ‘Xarabank’: time to let go

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

John Bundy has replaced Anton Attard as CEO of Malta’s public service broadcaster, which is responsible for TVM and Radio Malta. And all the talk and newspaper coverage, instead of being about...

Malta in the silly season

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 10:36 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

I surfed the net yesterday before I settled down to write. A minister split with his girlfriend. A PN candidate remarried and his daughter showed off her dress. The girl who set Malta on fire on...

The professor who messed things up

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Professor Victor Axiaq, Chairman of the Environment and Resources Authority, is not at fault for being absent at a Planning Authority public meeting on the 4 August which discussed the Imrieħel...

The Midas Curse

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Mgr Charles Scicluna

Greek mythology has some serious lessons to teach us. Much as proverbs are quintessential wisdom passed on from one generation to the next, so are myths. Ovid, that great Latin story teller,...

Malta at the crossroads

Saturday, 13 August 2016, 09:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

Recent events have put Malta at the crossroads.  They did not occur sporadically or without context but are rather like a virus that progressed as it went unchecked. On the one hand we have...

Misunderstanding Parliamentary procedure

Friday, 12 August 2016, 10:09 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

Judging from the way Mr. David Agius, the Nationalist Party Whip replied to my blog on “Vilification and the Nationalist Party”, it clearly transpires that he, with the rest of his...

Church leaders speak out against skyscraper hell

Thursday, 11 August 2016, 10:18 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

It has been so unusual, historically, for priests and bishops in Malta to comment about purely secular matters that when they did so in reaction to planning approval for those notorious skyscrapers,...

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