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Olympic Games: Earth's most political apolitical event

Monday, 17 February 2014, 08:03 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Each time an Olympics approaches, the ideal is articulated once more: The true spirit of the games, those who oversee them say, brings humanity together to promote amity and athletic excellence. It is...

Hollow scaremongering

Sunday, 16 February 2014, 09:38 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In a country such as this with no natural resources and as completely reliant on imported fossil fuels for its energy generation as it is, the generation of electricity is bound to be a cumbersome and...

Health Surgery needed at Mater Dei

Saturday, 15 February 2014, 08:08 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

It has to be said. The Malta Union of Midwives and nurses was right all along. The previous administration had tried to make out that the nurses’union had politicised the Mater Dei overcrowding...

Impeachment: The President has overruled

Thursday, 13 February 2014, 08:02 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat yesterday stopped short on giving any meaningful comment on the recent letter written by the Commission for the Administration of Justice to the Speaker of the...

112: Hoaxes of the worst kind

Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 07:58 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The association we have with emergency calls is when we hear playbacks of audio clips on reality television or crime investigation television programmes. The cool calm and collected voice often takes...

Anniversaries: Celebrating Malta’s milestones

Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 07:55 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Malta has come a long way in the past 30 years or so in healing divisions. From two polar political extremes, we now have a healthy and maturing democracy. Yet, the attitude of us and them persists....

Air Malta: A colourful livery to go with a colourful island

Monday, 10 February 2014, 07:58 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

We often say that much about life revolves around perception, and it certainly holds true. Malta is known to be a vibrant and colourful island that revels in its positioning at the centre of the...

Mosta animal killer: Will it all be worth it in the end

Saturday, 8 February 2014, 09:39 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The ante really has been upped in the search for the Mosta animal killer. Ever since the CCTV footage was broadcast by our web portal earlier this week, people have been giving every scrap of...

Migration: The human tide continues

Friday, 7 February 2014, 07:55 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Just as a young boy who survived the 11 October Lampedusa tragedy has been reunited with family members in Egypt, we hear news of another human tide trying to reach the promised land of...

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