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Not So nostalgic

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Carmela Buhagiar from Victoria, Gozo recently lodged a court protest against Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti regarding the recent publication of Nostalgias of Gozo....

Boy, 16 Arrested … for sticking a boycott label

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

A witness took the court back to the Bad Eighties last week when he described how police had arrested his 16-year-old son at night, and kept him in custody for 24 hours... and all because the boy had ...

Pushing Internet Penetration beyond 60%

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The main aim behind the government’s recently announced Blue Skies initiative is to push Malta’s Internet penetration beyond the 60 per cent mark....

Singing Seminarian to perform at WYD

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Singing seminarian Robert Galea has launched a new album and will perform at World Youth Day during the Stations of the Cross procession....

PM Entering The Palace surprises people

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The sight of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi being driven to The Palace on Friday morning threw at least one Labour MP into a state. He rushed to court to tell all and sundry that the Prime Minister had just gone to tell the President to call an election....

Controversial Scrapyard licensed to trade…but not to exist

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

A sorry state of affairs was exposed on Friday when the Malta Environment and Planning Authority’s Appeals Board heard that an illegal scrapyard had been given a trading licence despite the fact that it had no permission to exist in the first place....

Government Sticks to its guns on spring hunting

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The government has stood its ground on the issue of spring hunting and appears to have every intention of opening the season this year, flying in the face of the now very real threat of legal action by the European Commission....

Xaghra Stone Circle Villa given the go-ahead

Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In a decision bound to leave conservationists and the archaeological community dumbstruck, the controversial development of a villa with a pool within the limits of Gozo’s Xaghra Stone Circle has been given the green light....

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