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TMID Editorial: Another Sliema high-rise

Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 10:23 Last update: about 4 years ago

Last week, a planning application for the redevelopment of the Fort Cambridge Barracks site at Tigne into a massive 31-storey hotel was recommended for approval. It is the latest of a number of...

TMID Editorial: Jobs and the economy

Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 11:55 Last update: about 4 years ago

Just because there are jobs the Maltese people don’t want to work anymore, “doesn’t mean that the solution is to create slavery in Malta,” Nationalist Party spokesperson for...

TMID Editorial: Malta’s tarmac love affair

Monday, 19 June 2023, 15:28 Last update: about 4 years ago

Much has been said over the past years over the irrational love for more and more tarmac that has come to signify the debate around Malta’s roads – but a new piece of asphalt mere metres...

TMIS Editorial: The right to redress

Sunday, 18 June 2023, 10:30 Last update: about 4 years ago

In seven of his latest speeches for the Sette Giugno commemoration, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has made the same point – a recommendation to establish a mechanism which grants...

TMID Editorial: The need for a migration solution

Saturday, 17 June 2023, 11:41 Last update: about 4 years ago

The Mediterranean’s latest migrant tragedy – and possibly one of its deadliest – comes at a time when Europe is again discussing how best to deal with the immigration issue. A...

TMID Editorial: Political influence

Thursday, 15 June 2023, 09:00 Last update: about 4 years ago

The State of the Nation survey that was commissioned by the Office of the President, the results of which were made public in a one-day conference earlier this month, gave a deep insight on what the...

TMID Editorial: GRECO’s recommendations

Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 10:38 Last update: about 4 years ago

The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog – the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), found that Malta had failed to implement one of its nine recommendations, and that...

TMID Editorial: The Cospicua elderly home saga

Monday, 12 June 2023, 10:48 Last update: about 4 years ago

One of the latest sagas hitting the headlines in the past week is concerning the government elderly home situated in Cospicua. Residents were shocked a couple of weeks ago when they were told...

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