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The Destruction of Qui-si-Sana

Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Ray Bezzina, Communications Co-ordinator, Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment, in his letter of 19 December, 2004, principally bases his argument on the fact that the public consultation that took place five-and-a-half years ago to rebut Mr L. ...

Devaluing The lira

Friday, 24 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

While reading the letter by Blair L. Foltner (TMID, 17 December) regarding opposition leader Alfred Sant’s idea about depreciating the Maltese lira, I could not help thinking about the contradictions it contained. ...

L-Istrina’s Prizes

Friday, 24 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

For the sake of transparency, Peppi Azzopardi should to hold the ...

Facts And practice: the sixth seat for the PN

Friday, 24 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Stephen Cachia, AD secretary general (TMID 22 December), works out his arguments in favour of giving AD the sixth (observer) seat in the European Parliament by applying a quota that assumed that the election was for five seats! This is a contradiction in ...

The Saga of rugby in Malta

Thursday, 23 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Over the last five years, rugby has become an established sport within the island and made Malta proud in international competitions. One has just to mention 11 victories, one draw and two losses over a stretch of four years – surely a record....

Sixth Seat mathematically AD’s

Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Michael Falzon (TMID, 20 December) continues with the PN spin claiming that a theoretical sixth observer seat in the European parliament should go to the PN and not to AD....

Confusion Of roles

Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

From a picture carried on your back page (TMID 17 December), it appears that Malta’s permanent representative in Brussels, Mr Richard Cachia Caruana, attended a summit meeting of the European Popular Party (PPE) at Bouchout Castle, Meise, on Thursday. One...

Mathematical Correctness

Monday, 20 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Your editorial The sixth seat (TMID, December 14) takes at face value the claim made by Alternattiva Demokratika that the theoretical sixth Maltese MEP seat is automatically theirs by right. This is mathematically incorrect....

Cremation

Monday, 20 December 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Cremation is yet another issue that our country has to tackle....

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