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Tackling illegality

Friday, 29 July 2016, 09:01 Last update: about 10 years ago

Maybe it should not have happened like that but that is the way it happened and we must take it up from there. A few days ago, MP Claudette Buttigieg complained in Parliament about her fear that...

No news is bad news for Air Malta

Thursday, 28 July 2016, 08:43 Last update: about 10 years ago

As we report on the news pages, an informal meeting between Air Malta and the pilots' association yesterday did not lead to any new development in the industrial issue between them. The...

Terror: A notch higher in horror and extent

Wednesday, 27 July 2016, 10:06 Last update: about 10 years ago

Yesterday’s barbarous killing of an elderly priest who was celebrating Mass in a small town near Rouen in France marks a significant higher notch in the horror inflicted by Islamic terror in the...

After Munich: the need for proper police preparation

Monday, 25 July 2016, 07:57 Last update: about 10 years ago

All the world has now commented on the background of Friday’s massacre of innocents in Munich. And in today’s issue we give some details about the unfortunate young victims, victims of a...

Traffic fines review ordered not a day too soon

Sunday, 24 July 2016, 09:44 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday that he has ordered a review of the country’s traffic fines regime, particularly as regards drink driving, comes not a day too soon.  In...

Migration: The invisible death toll continues to climb

Saturday, 23 July 2016, 09:36 Last update: about 10 years ago

The International Organisation for Migration yesterday said that the number of deaths at sea this year is soon to hit 3,000, making it the third straight year that a new record has been established...

Mobile technology: Driving us to distraction

Friday, 22 July 2016, 11:44 Last update: about 10 years ago

The latest flash in the pan to take the world by storm is Pokemon Go. The game is a spinoff of one of Nintendo’s most popular video games – Pokemon – which spawned cartoons, fluffy...

Pigeon culls: Contraceptive feed is the most sanitary option

Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 08:37 Last update: about 10 years ago

The pigeon culling exercise in Balzan last week raised controversy  given that it literally involved men walking around with air rifles taking pot shots at the birds. The first thing that...

Editorial - Politics: Time for some toilet humour

Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 11:22 Last update: about 10 years ago

It is almost August and that time of the year, in journalistic jargon, is referred to as silly season. As people laze around on the beach and companies go on shutdown, life turns into a bit of a...

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