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Diversionary tactics

Sunday, 14 December 2014, 09:41 Last update: about 13 years ago

The Prime Minister's great diversionary tactic of releasing a damning report by Judge Geoffrey Valenzia - who had been tasked by the previous administration to determine whether there had been...

New Police Commissioner has his work cut out for him

Saturday, 13 December 2014, 08:00 Last update: about 13 years ago

The Prime Minister has decided to appoint Michael Cassar as Police Commissioner in a bid to stop the rot that had set in over the years. The state of affairs within the Police Corps did not come...

Politics: The real reasons why Mallia should have been removed

Friday, 12 December 2014, 08:20 Last update: about 13 years ago

In the inquiry report which the Prime Minister commissioned to look into the Gzira shooting three weeks ago, it was found that Manuel Mallia was not part of any political cover up and that it was...

Malligate: One man who did his job on that night

Thursday, 11 December 2014, 08:14 Last update: about 13 years ago

A very worrying side note to the Malliagate affair is the shocking and gross ineptitude of the police officers who were on duty in the control room last night. There was only one cop who did his...

Malliagate: Is this the end of it?

Wednesday, 10 December 2014, 08:18 Last update: about 13 years ago

Following the rolling of the heads of the acting police commissioner and the sacking of Manuel Mallia over the 'Malliagate' affair, some may be under the erroneous impression that the country has now...

Malliagate: What if he said no?

Tuesday, 9 December 2014, 10:26 Last update: about 13 years ago

By the time you read this editorial Manuel Mallia will have officially sent his resignation to the Prime Minister from his role of Minister. He is doing so because you cannot hang on to a post when...

Everyone involved must go

Sunday, 7 December 2014, 10:00 Last update: about 13 years ago

While this newspaper has absolutely no intention of pre-empting or second-guessing the results of the inquiry ordered into the alleged cover-up of the shooting incident involving the home affairs...

Censu Tabone: Cementing the legacy of a President

Friday, 5 December 2014, 09:01 Last update: about 13 years ago

One of Malta's best loved Presidents surely has to be Censu Tabone. The gentle ophthalmologist's legacy was cemented into history with the unveiling of a monument in Balluta on Wednesday...

World Disability Day: A leap forward in people's rights

Thursday, 4 December 2014, 09:38 Last update: about 13 years ago

We have taken great strides forward from even a few decades ago when people with disabilities were locked away because of the stigma attached to it. When it came to mental disabilities, the stigma was...

The Church: Pulling itself out of a rut of denial

Tuesday, 2 December 2014, 08:56 Last update: about 13 years ago

Bishop Charles Scicluna has promised that cases of sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy will be investigated and judged within the shortest possible amount of time. He made the...

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