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Continuous Change

Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The slogan used by the Labour Party (PL) before the last election was “a new beginning”, which the party said was needed in a country where the Nationalist Party has been in government for two decades...

The Ghadira Road

Monday, 1 December 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Minister Austin Gatt knew he was in for it when he held a press conference last week to speak about the proposals to rebuild or re-route the main road at Ghadira Bay....

Undermining The family

Sunday, 30 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

For a government which states it wants to defend the family with all possible means, it is actually threatening and undermining the family as an institution through allowing the counter-family lifestyle to prevail due to well-meaning...

TUC? What TUC?

Saturday, 29 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Do you remember the excitement which surrounded the holding of what was described as a historical protest some 20 unions organised in Valletta to put pressure on the government to revise its position on the water and electricity tariffs? ...

Political Unity

Friday, 28 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Labour leader Joseph Muscat probably did not want it to sound the way it did, but his comments at Wednesday’s Economic Management Consultancy Services ...

The Evolution of a language (2)

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

In an editorial with the same title, The Malta Independent earlier this month commented on the fact that in a country where bilingualism is the order of the day...

More Than a change of name

Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

There was an element of euphoria in Labour leader Joseph Muscat’s address on the first day of extraordinary general conference which is being asked to approve a set of amendments to the party statute...

Outlining A reform

Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

The weeks following the election held in March were weeks in which the Nationalist government embarked upon a wide-ranging plan of reforms that covered various sectors. ...

Mental Illness

Monday, 24 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Matters have greatly improved over the years with regard to the way victims of mental illness are treated, but there is still so much that can be done to first of all ...

Like A family

Sunday, 23 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The pre-budget days having been spent in an interminable round of negotiations focused almost exclusively on the surcharge issue, and the post-budget days having been spent in partisan diatribes, the country has ...

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