A Victory but not ‘The Victory’
Monday, 8 June 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The Labour Party’s deputy leader for party affairs, Toni Abela summed it up in one sentence....
The Road back to Brussels
Sunday, 7 June 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The candidates have been fielded, the votes have been cast, the verdict has been delivered and now, all that remains today is the counting. ...
Where, Oh where to put the cabbies
Saturday, 6 June 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The first thing that must be said in this leading article is that the debate of whether or not horses drawing cabs is cruel, ...
Is It embarrassment?
Friday, 5 June 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
A staggering 75% of sexually active Maltese respondents to a survey admitted that they had never used a condom – it is quite alarming....
Names, Faces, people
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Saturday’s European Parliament vote is a test case of Malta’s European credentials. Going by what is the norm in so many of the other 26 member states, we would be in the norm if voter turnout slips below 50%, but that’s hardly feasible here, of course....
An Ally in the making
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Malta is the first country to lend concrete support to the new government of Iceland, which is seeking EU and eurozone membership....
Run Rabbit, run
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Birdlife on Sunday pointed out an interesting coincidence – applications for rabbit hunting licences have soared by 20 per cent since the first ban on spring bird hunting in 2008....
New Kind of election, same old ploys
Sunday, 31 May 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The electorate faces an election next week quite unlike any other it has seen before, with Malta factoring into a far larger spectrum of hundreds of millions voters, with a whole new range of issues as fodder and ...
Barking Up the wrong tree
Saturday, 30 May 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
It has actually been quite surprising, the EP and local council election campaign kicked off towards the end of March, yet the mud only started to fly in the last week or so.This being an EP election and a local council election, ...
Asia Simmers… tensions could boil over
Friday, 29 May 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
The situation in Korea is one that should not go unheeded by the international community. Technically, the North is still at war with the South because only a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1953, s...