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Far more questions than answers

Sunday, 17 February 2013, 09:21 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As expected, the home stretch of this incredibly protracted election campaign that we have now entered has begun to liven up to more than a certain extent, with cross-party accusations of lies and...

The neverending twists and turns

Saturday, 16 February 2013, 10:32 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We are just coming to the close of the sixth week of the electoral campaign and if this week is anything to go by, the remaining three weeks will be characterised by corruption...

More worrying signs in last quarter

Friday, 15 February 2013, 08:13 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Faltering demand in Germany saw the recession across the 17-member eurozone deepen as it entered a third consecutive quarter.   Malta is still doing relatively well, but Eurostat statistics...

Blatant disregard of commuters

Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 16:20 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The police yesterday issued a notice for motorists to try and avoid the Kappara roundabout – reason being, work is underway in connection with the inter-connector project.   It is too...

A well-meaning gesture, but...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 08:19 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Labour Party has proposed delivering medicines to people who are too old and frail to go and get them themselves. This is also being highlighted on the billboards.   In itself, the idea...

Who will be the next Pope?

Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 08:29 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The reasons for Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation on 28 February were cited as being that he is simply to infirm to carry on – making him the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to do so...

EU summit: A job well done

Monday, 11 February 2013, 10:33 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Last week’s summit could very well have been the last one which Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi attended. And if it is, what a way to go out. As a result of his dogged persistence over the past...

A budgetary miracle

Sunday, 10 February 2013, 09:43 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The government may not have had the budget miracle it had been hoping for when its own Budget 2013 failed to be approved by Parliament, but in lieu of that it pulled off another kind of budgetary...

A heavy dent to credibility

Saturday, 9 February 2013, 08:52 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Trade unions are part and parcel of democratic society. Over the eyars they have done a lot for the worker, the ordinary Joe, who was transformed in decades past as hard won rights were implemented...

You have to be so, so careful

Friday, 8 February 2013, 09:08 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We all know what Simon Busuttil meant to say. He meant to say that the Labour Party took on Deborah Schembri as a candidate because she had middle class voter appeal and could also sway those who are...

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