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Mr Chetcuti talks aesthetics

Sunday, 10 May 2015, 11:05 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

It would be nice to think of the real-estate developer Sandro Chetcuti as a reformed man, but really, that would be a bit of a joke. Mr Chetcuti is president of the Malta Developers Association, but...

A future for our past

Sunday, 10 May 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The proposal for the setting up of an American University at Marsaskala as presented by the government is not one that is sustainable. DePaul University of Chicago has denied involvement in the...

The city that needs her sleep

Sunday, 10 May 2015, 10:32 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

We are all accustomed to such wayward titles of popular books and films as The city that never sleeps", with the author obviously trying to project the image of a thriving, not-so-innocent city run by...

And now for something completely unexpected

Sunday, 10 May 2015, 10:29 Last update: about 12 years ago Jenny Pullicino Orlando

One minute The Guardian/ICM polls - heck, all the polls - told us that the Conservatives and Labour were neck and neck and the next, exit polls revealed the unimaginable. How all the pollsters got it...

All about the money

Saturday, 9 May 2015, 08:51 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

The fall of the Libyan dynasty has been good for Labour.  It gave them an opportunity to seek new friends and rich financial support.   Baku is the capital of energy-rich Azerbaijan, a...

Hide and seek in the transparent Parliament

Friday, 8 May 2015, 08:15 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

After a long break, we parliamentarians have finally moved to the new Parliament House. No offence meant to whoever arranged the ceremony but, I’m afraid, it lacked taste and could have been...

Anglu Farrugia

Thursday, 7 May 2015, 09:23 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The opening of the new Parliament was the Speaker’s red-letter day. I will not go into the ceremony, even if, I consider the military parades out of place during such occasions. They are only...

The University of Baksheesh

Thursday, 7 May 2015, 08:33 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The government has rushed through a deal in which a huge parcel of public land, in an Outside Development Zone, has been signed away to a Middle Eastern building, contracting and hotel development...

Simon’s choices

Wednesday, 6 May 2015, 11:35 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

It took Joseph Muscat three weeks to fire Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia after his driver’s involvement in a shooting incident. Shooting in the direction of a human being in a car, not at...

Renzo and Lawrence, ‘I’m no pigeon’!

Wednesday, 6 May 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

On Monday our attention was taken up by the inauguration of the controversial architectural design of Renzo Piano dedicated to host the foremost institution of this country.   Parliament for...

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