The Malta Independent 27 August 2026, Thursday
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Discomfort: Power Struggles

Tuesday, 21 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

To loosely paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the odd power cut might be regarded as a misfortune, but to suffer so many looks like carelessness. ...

Eurozone: Is Greece Heading for an exit?

Monday, 20 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

While many have speculated that the time may have come for Greece to leave the shackles of the eurozone – its chairman believes that the country will stay in the common currency bloc...

Environment: The Rape of our coastline

Monday, 20 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It has become a common sight. The more popular rocky bays in Malta, particularly those in Sliema, are being stripped of wildlife as people constantly plunder for sea urchins, fish and shellfish....

Fighting For the beaches

Sunday, 19 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

This year’s August silly season - that time of year when politics, business and the country’s movers and shakers call a time out - has ...

Premier League: Time For optimism ahead of a new season

Saturday, 18 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Barclays Premier League returns today after a three-month break, in what promises to be another breathtaking season. Global television audiences ...

Squatters: Gypsies In our midst?

Saturday, 18 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The authorities really have set a precedent. In presenting ‘campers’ with eviction notices at the tal-Magħluq bay in Marsaxlokk, a whole can of worms ...

Radiation: What Does it do to us?

Friday, 17 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Researchers in Japan have concluded that exposure to radioactive material released into the environment near Fukushima has caused mutations in butterflies....

Roadworks: Bad Planning and illogical decisions

Friday, 17 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Roadworks in Ċirkewwa and the Mellie?a Bypass seem to have taken their toll on the Gozitan economy with the Gozo Tourism Association...

Changing Times: A generation of workaholics

Thursday, 16 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Since the 2008 bubble burst, the West came to the dawning realisation – our way of life is unsustainable; we are living on credit and beyond our means....

Environment: Mercaptan, What next?

Thursday, 16 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

On 4 August a damning indictment by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority’s now former audit officer was published against the authority for its handling, or rather, its non-handling of Enemalta when it came to the illegal disposal of mercaptan...

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