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Reducing 122,000 vehicles from Malta’s roads

Sunday, 4 January 2015, 10:15 Last update: about 13 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The government is apparently worried about parking problems being faced by practically all localities in Malta and Gozo. In fact, during a press conference by Transport Minister Joe Mizzi in Rabat...

A sad and sobering thought for 2015

Sunday, 4 January 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Charles Flores

People who, like me, have had ink in their blood since they were born and have grown up reading, writing and loving newspapers, know only too well that the print media has been on a nosedive for the...

No room at the Inn

Saturday, 3 January 2015, 14:18 Last update: about 13 years ago Rachel Borg

This Malta Community Chest Fund has become somewhat of a Cash for Citizens Scheme to compete with the Cash for Passports Scheme, when we go to Midnight Mass at St. John's co-Cathedral and get turned...

Forward to the Eighties

Friday, 2 January 2015, 11:09 Last update: about 13 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Last year ended with a widespread feeling that Malta had gone back to the 1980s. In the case of the environment, there is no question. There is the same government indifference and the same...

A New Year’s resolution for the police

Thursday, 1 January 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

If the new Police Commissioner wishes to be taken seriously in terms of his declared commitment to brook no nonsense from anybody, the first thing he has got to do is launch a proper, thorough...

The three wise women

Tuesday, 30 December 2014, 17:49 Last update: about 13 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

  So 2014 is practically over and done with.    Evaluations and round-ups being done. Auld Lang Syne soon cheered.  Countdown before long completed....

Midnight Mass, APS Concert and St. John’s Co-Cathedral

Monday, 29 December 2014, 11:54 Last update: about 13 years ago Simon Mercieca

One might ask what is the common feature between Midnight Mass and the APS Annual Concert. The answer is in the title itself: St. John's Co-Cathedral. Unfortunately, the connection is not...

Always stand up to police abuse

Sunday, 28 December 2014, 11:16 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The police are back in the news with yet another story about blatant abuse on several counts. The way the victim - Karl Baldacchino - has reported matters to the newspapers (and to the police...

Opportunities and risks for 2015

Sunday, 28 December 2014, 10:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

My first article in this series appeared nearly 15 years ago, on 23rd January 2000. It is about time that I move off stage and allow space for new blood.So this is where I draw the line in so far as...

The people have spoken, again

Sunday, 28 December 2014, 09:42 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

The short straw this Christmas went to, against some predictions, to… Simon Busuttil. And it was delivered by none other than this very same paper last Sunday. I defend its conclusions not...

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