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Health Putting primary care within reach

Monday, 24 February 2014, 07:55 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In an interview given to our sister paper The Malta Independent on Sunday, which was published yesterday, Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia announced that the government was planning to build a new...

Smart meter racket: condemn or condone

Sunday, 23 February 2014, 15:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

There is something fundamentally incongruous about the government’s offer of an amnesty for those individuals who paid to have their smart meters tampered with to slow down the recording of...

Ukraine: Positive news, at last

Saturday, 22 February 2014, 07:53 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Ukraine’s embattled President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced that the Ukraine would be holding early elections in a bid to defuse the explosive situation that has been gathering more and...

Atomic bombs: Enough with the scaremongering

Friday, 21 February 2014, 08:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Last week, the opposition party held a press point where they drew on the knowledge of an engineer who likened the fallout blast, should an floating gas facility explode, to 50 atomic bombs going off...

Crime: The corrupt nation

Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 08:07 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The one thing that beggars belief in the smart meter tampering scandal is that more people are suspected of rigging the system in Malta, than in the whole of the United States in one...

Italy: A new young leader takes the helm

Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Italy’s President, Giorgio Napolitano, has asked Matteo Renzi – the 39-year-old mayor of Florence – to form a new government.   Mr  Renzi is set to become...

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...

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