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Giving value to the President’s role

Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 07:53 Last update: about 12 years ago

President Emeritus Ugo Mifsud Bonnici will be launching his autobiography tomorrow and in the build up to the event, he was interviewed by our sister paper The Malta Independent on Sunday. Apart...

The biggest feather in government’s cap

Monday, 16 March 2015, 07:47 Last update: about 12 years ago

The Prime Minister yesterday hinted that the European Commission may lift the Excessive Deficit Procedure imposed on Malta for failing to stick to the Maastricht criteria’s three per cent...

A new beginning for the Church

Sunday, 15 March 2015, 09:00 Last update: about 12 years ago

On Saturday, Mgr Charles Scicluna will take over as head of the Church in Malta, in a ceremony that is to take place at the Mdina Cathedral. His installation as Archbishop of Malta fills up the...

Literacy: Learning to love books again

Friday, 13 March 2015, 08:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

Malta is one of the worst performers when it comes to illiteracy, placing 25th out the 27 EU members with only Romania and Bulgaria faring worse.  According to the last report, some 36% of...

School hours: Reform is long overdue

Thursday, 12 March 2015, 08:30 Last update: about 12 years ago

Malta has always invested very heavily in education. It has been a long standing mantra that our only plentiful natural resource is our people, the future generations. Schooling has always been...

Voting: Time to take a quantum leap forwards

Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 07:52 Last update: about 12 years ago

The government on Sunday announced that Air Malta would be offering €70 tickets for people who want to come to Malta to vote in the Spring Hunting referendum on 11 April. Let us depart from...

SwissLeaks: The scale of it has taken all by surprise

Monday, 9 March 2015, 08:08 Last update: about 12 years ago

The sheer scale of the figures in the tax avoidance case exposed by this newspaper’s sister publication yesterday seems to have left Malta’s political system reeling. Both the...

Accounts and accountability

Sunday, 8 March 2015, 09:07 Last update: about 12 years ago

Today's revelation on our front page that former minister Ninu Zammit held millions of dollars in a secret Swiss bank account, as confirmed by Swiss Leaks data, is deeply concerning on a number of...

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