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Stick to the Stable, Minister

Sunday, 13 March 2016, 11:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I wasn’t able to watch Xarabank on Friday and it seems I missed quite a show which I plan to make up for this morning, catching up with it through TVM’s on-demand menu. But I did watch one...

Got any stain remover, Joe?

Sunday, 13 March 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

This crisis just refuses to go.  We have had corruption cases before: Café Premier, Gaffarena, the American University of Malta all come to mind. They’ve all come and gone. It took...

The Importance of Being Earnest

Saturday, 12 March 2016, 09:04 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

Wilde did a superior job writing this play with an amusing story line filled with humour and satire. A man who made up a lie to find out that it was not really a fabrication, that it was reality....

George Farrugia and Konrad Mizzi

Friday, 11 March 2016, 13:06 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The electoral campaign of 2013 was dominated by the oil scandal and one of its protagonists was George Farrugia. Going over these events and trying to analyse them through the new information that is...

Cleaning up politics

Friday, 11 March 2016, 12:13 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

On Tuesday, when Beppe Fenech Adami, Konrad Mizzi and Carmel Cacopardo took to the TVM arena, word has it that Labour had a huge dilemma. Nobody thought it would be a clever idea to send Konrad...

The situation is now Kafkaesque

Thursday, 10 March 2016, 11:12 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Konrad Mizzi was on television with Beppe Fenech Adami (and Carmel Cacopardo of AD) and threatened to sue Fenech Adami if he read from a transcript of Simon Busuttil’s speech in parliament....

Tax

Thursday, 10 March 2016, 07:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

One finds it strange that "negotiations" are taking place between the government and the tourism sector regarding  the tax on bednights that tourists spend in hotels. There is nothing out of this...

It’s a Ronnie’s life

Wednesday, 9 March 2016, 10:24 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

With such a large flow of knowledge and information being thrown around, it is not surprising, even though seemingly outlandish that our media outlets decide to ignore big stories that impact our...

Garbage in, garbage out

Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 11:09 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

I am not capable to do any house or car maintenance.  I rely totally on others.  Whenever I’ve tried to lay my hands on tools, I’ve only manged to make things worse.  This...

A 'new' minister : Il-Ministru Tonna

Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 07:48 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

Political history has always had individuals who wielded power behind the throne, and Malta is no different. Borg Olivier had Edgar Mizzi. Mizzi switched sides in 1971 and became Mintoff’s right...

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