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Three items worthy of note

Friday, 25 July 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

I refer to the recent public statements made by both the Kamra tal-Periti (KTP) and the Chamber of Geologists whereby, concerning the Paceville collapse site, the latter had expressed its grave...

European finances

Thursday, 24 July 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

In its proposals for the European budgets covering 2028 - 2034, the European Commission has envisaged a substantial increase in EU expenditures. To account for this, it has referenced the priorities...

The PN battles its own nonsense

Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 07:35 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

The Nationalist Party stands at a crossroads. Its leadership election should inspire fresh energy and new ideas, yet the rulebook issued lately by its Electoral Commission tells a different story. The...

Restaurants

Monday, 21 July 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

The report published recently by the association of restaurants, the ACE, surveying what diners out in Maltese restaurants think about the service they get was very interesting. Most of all in the...

Chambray vs Manoel Island: Twin fortresses, diverging fates

Sunday, 20 July 2025, 10:56 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

As Gozitan sunlight touches Fort Chambray's ramparts, this limestone structure above Mġarr Harbour - a silent witness to three centuries of activity, from past skirmishes to modern development -...

Gozo’s epidemic

Sunday, 20 July 2025, 08:58 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

Gozo is facing a terrible catastrophe.  The number of severely disabled people in our sister island has increased exponentially since Labour came to power.  That number didn't just double,...

Citizenship is not a commodity, and it should never have been

Sunday, 20 July 2025, 08:55 Last update: about 2 years ago Darren Carabott

It took nothing less than a judgment of the European Court of Justice for the Maltese Government to finally acknowledge what we had been saying for so long, precisely that citizenship is not for...

The Mediterrane questionable bonanza

Sunday, 20 July 2025, 08:11 Last update: about 2 years ago Julie Zahra

It's another warm July, and once again I find myself writing about yet another Mediterrane Film Festival which, for the third year running, has turned into an extraordinarily expensive extravaganza....

How 'Colpo Grosso' helped PN win in 1987

Sunday, 20 July 2025, 07:52 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

Take any Maltese male in his 60s or 70s, mention 'Colpo Grosso' to him ... and watch his face light up. That's the name of a TV series, identified with host Umberto Smaila, which for...

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