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The Freeport: who pays the price for its economic success?

Sunday, 24 July 2016, 10:20 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

There are conflicting views on the acceptability, or otherwise, of the operations of the Freeport Terminal at Kalafrana, limits of Birżebbuġa. Throughout the years, governments have...

A fiendish bewilderment

Sunday, 24 July 2016, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

If one is honest there is no denying that the multi-themed issue of illegal immigration, refugees and terrorism has one in quite a quandary. Of course there are those who stand strictly on the Right...

A royal flush

Saturday, 23 July 2016, 11:36 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

As the triumvirate of Keith, Konrad and Joseph get ready with their tent and lights to present a media event to deflect attention from the non-event of the power station onto the grievances of the...

Erdogan and the Liberals

Saturday, 23 July 2016, 11:33 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

In the last few years, academics (both local and foreign) chastised the Catholic Church in Malta for fomenting, according to them, racial hatred against the Ottomans and the Arabs. In some cases,...

When the personal becomes public

Friday, 22 July 2016, 12:17 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

I recently met a dear old friend who I hadn’t seen for a very long time. After the usual niceties we got down to the issues which concern him most. The first thing he mentioned was how personal...

Opportunities?

Thursday, 21 July 2016, 06:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

I feel some discomfort when I listen to talk about the “opportunities” that Brexit could offer. The truth is that the exit of the UK from the European Union is going to be a diplomatic and...

PL, PN have their gods and animals

Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 10:34 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

Education Minister Evarist Bartolo was perfectly correct when he said that there is a law for the gods and a law for animals. And there seems to be no difference between the parties in the way...

Al di là

Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 08:35 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I think what we have been witnessing in these last couple of years is to say the least frightening, terrifying and scary.  The term, ‘ma tista’ tmur imkien’ (you...

Prima donna in the house

Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 09:37 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Last Wednesday I was having a night out with some friends.  All was going well until my mobile, in an attempt to spoil the evening, intervened.  A friend on the other end of the line broke...

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