The Malta Independent 18 May 2024, Saturday
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Fine-tuning plea bargaining legislation

Sunday, 13 February 2022, 07:53 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Way back in August of 2011, Dr Josè Herrera, reacting to the introduction of the institute of plea bargaining into the Criminal Code through article 453A, had rightly remarked how the amendment...

Appreciation: Albert Fenech

Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:42 Last update: about 3 years ago

I first met Albert when he performed an intervention on my uncle at the Brook Hospital in London. I remember the patient being wheeled into the cathlab and wheeled out a short while after. When I was...

Looking back… looking ahead!

Sunday, 9 January 2022, 08:05 Last update: about 3 years ago

Looking back, the Malta Federation of Organisations Persons with Disability (MFOPD) happily notes that last year, 2021, was a positive year for us.  First and foremost it was the first (whole)...

End of life treatment

Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:15 Last update: about 4 years ago

We should like to add some comments to those of Professor Pierre Mallia (Independent, 31 October). We welcome and support his call for better end-of-life and palliative care, and for established...

Gieh ir-Repubblika to Caroline Galea

Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:14 Last update: about 4 years ago

On 28 September afternoon Caroline Galea spotted an injured man who happened to be a migrant worker dumped with pain and crying on a curb in the area of Selmun Mellieha.  The man happens to be a...

Black lives matter

Saturday, 2 October 2021, 09:01 Last update: about 4 years ago

Do they really in Malta? We have been going from bad to worse. In July 2015, Daboma Jack was assaulted at the Valletta Bus Terminus for no reason at all. On 6 April 2019, Lassana Cisse Souleymane, a...

Appreciation: Carmel Apap Bologna

Sunday, 26 September 2021, 08:57 Last update: about 4 years ago

Baron Carmel Apap Bologna Sceberras D’Amico Inguanez was a teacher to many who encountered him without possibly ever intending to do so. He did so by being true to his upbringing, through his...

Appreciation: Guido Lanfranco

Sunday, 19 September 2021, 10:00 Last update: about 4 years ago

Guido Lanfranco is in the heart of all Maltese and Gozitans who have a love for their country, a love for the local biodiversity and an interest in all that is Maltese. A man who can never be...

Blind Repubblika

Sunday, 19 September 2021, 07:38 Last update: about 4 years ago

Repubblika is assiduous in pushing its virulent, one-sided views against the Labour party in government. It went so far as to criticise the European Union for allowing a situation in Malta which led...

Why don't they get on with it!

Sunday, 12 September 2021, 08:19 Last update: about 4 years ago

It is unacceptable to expect street residents to contend for months with dust, mud and mayhem in their street for road repairs to be carried out. That has been the case with Kola Xara Street,...

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