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The Maternity Leave Trust Fund – a win-win contribution

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 08:34 Last update: about 11 years ago

The National Council of Women welcomes the introduction of the Maternity Leave Trust Fund, a pool that will contribute to maternity leave of women employed in the private sector.  The recent...

‘Tallinja’: Taking us for a ride

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 08:32 Last update: about 11 years ago

Like those of many other aggrieved Malta Public Transport (MPT) customers, my son’s topped up Tallinja card is defective and malfunctions on the buses. Repeated e-mail, online and telephone...

Nests

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 08:31 Last update: about 11 years ago

Many young birds die because of breeders’ stupidity. One of the problems bird breeders have to face every year is the loss of fledglings. This is because they have to ring their fledglings...

Is history repeating itself?

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 08:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

It is often stated that history repeats itself. Under certain circumstances it certainly does. Around two thousand years ago, the followers of Jesus Christ, who they claimed was both Man and God and...

Hardly a Chinese puzzle

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 08:28 Last update: about 11 years ago

Ms Sai Mizzi’s performance at her press conference was a dismal exercise in pulling the wool over one’s eyes.  That was the only choice left to her, considering the many, well,...

Gozo’s Third World roads

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 08:26 Last update: about 11 years ago

The article entitled “Gozo-driving on Third-World country roads” (TMIS, 26 July) is, alas, a very correct summing-up of the disastrous state of Gozo's “roads”....

Prices set to increase?

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 08:25 Last update: about 11 years ago

The price of electrical and electronic equipment has risen by an average of 2.19 per cent since the implementation of the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. This was...

The two most popular prime ministers in Europe

Sunday, 26 July 2015, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Despite the damaging and humiliating deal in which he accepted a bailout proposal that backtracks on nearly every campaign promise he made, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's political support...

Appreciation: Anton Farrugia

Sunday, 26 July 2015, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

On 19 May, Gozo lost a great gentleman whom throughout his life, strove to promote the academic, cultural, social and spiritual wellbeing of his fellow Gozitans. A humble dockyard worker, Anton...

Eyesores

Sunday, 26 July 2015, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Please allow me to express my concern regarding what can be termed as the invasion (eyesores) by billboards of what remains of our valued green enclaves/spots in urban areas, apparently with the...

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