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Editorial - Panamagate: Why are people so suddenly shocked?

Friday, 4 March 2016, 09:09 Last update: about 11 years ago

This Panamagate affair with the involvement of a senior government minister and the prime minister’s Chief of Staff has thoroughly shocked the country leading the Opposition to call a national...

Conduct unbecoming

Thursday, 3 March 2016, 10:52 Last update: about 11 years ago

This paper, as readers can attest, tries hard to provide information and news on business in Malta without entering the labyrinth of Maltese partisan politics. Nevertheless, there are sometimes...

The Malta Independent Editorial: Prime Minister in hiding

Thursday, 3 March 2016, 08:40 Last update: about 11 years ago

The Prime Minister has been in hiding for an entire week now, a week in which his minister Konrad Mizzi has been hauled over hot coals by the press and the public at large on account of the dubious...

Panama holdings: It is an insult to all Maltese

Wednesday, 2 March 2016, 10:46 Last update: about 11 years ago

The reaction to the news that Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi and the PM’s Chief of staff Keith Schembri hold a Trust in New Zealand and that both had set up a companies to administer their assets...

Brexit: Same, but different

Tuesday, 1 March 2016, 10:49 Last update: about 11 years ago

The UK is shaping up for a referendum to be held in June which will either see it continue to be an active and contributing member of the European Union, or to see it leave completely. The...

The Malta Independent editorial: Unacceptable

Monday, 29 February 2016, 11:01 Last update: about 11 years ago

Malta has long prided itself in the scrutiny that its financial watchdogs have over investments and to make sure that things are done as they should be. To continue to build on the same argument,...

Libya: a failed state far too close for comfort

Sunday, 28 February 2016, 09:20 Last update: about 11 years ago

Malta’s closest non-EU neighbour, Libya, is rapidly descending into a failed state and as the country’s two parliaments continue to jostle for control of the lawless country while...

Words and music

Friday, 26 February 2016, 09:02 Last update: about 11 years ago

In Parliament on Wednesday, Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil made a series of statements regarding the Konrad Mizzi case. He was later challenged to repeat the same allegations outside the House...

Libya and the Islamic State: Terrorists too close for comfort

Thursday, 25 February 2016, 07:58 Last update: about 11 years ago

These are certainly troubled times in which we are living today. But as we here in Malta may be somewhat diverted by public scandal after public scandal as they roll off the presses almost on a daily...

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