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Ghaxaq In Guatemala

Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Louis Duca, from Ghaxaq, lived an experience of five weeks with the Mission Fund in Guatemala in order to help in the building of a fish farm for the local villagers....

New Supermarket not within Safi boundary

Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Safi local council categorically denies that the development of a new supermarket is within the limits of Safi, as implied in the article AD slams Mepa approval of new supermarket (TMID, 10 December)....

Suffering’s Three languages

Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Suffering has its own languages. According to Warren Thomas Reich, suffering possesses three kinds of languages that specifically describe its peculiar nature....

Point Proven

Monday, 7 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The words, “point proven” came to my mind recently when I remembered the letter I wrote (TMID, 22 December) and upon reading that penned by Mr Eddy Privitera (TMID, 2 January). ...

Learning By doing

Monday, 7 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Education Minister Louis Galea’s inclusion of “learning by doing” in the new national curriculum, to cater for the less academic students, (TMID, 3 January) augurs well for increased school retention, and inculcating the love of learning. ...

Empty Vessels

Monday, 7 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

How true is the English saying that empty vessels make most sound. This saying fits exactly the likes of Dr Silvio Debono who, day in day out, delivers his propagandistic analysis of the local newspapers on One Radio. ...

End Of a love affair with Malta?

Sunday, 6 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

In 1989 I bought a flat in Katerina Vitale Street, Xemxija. There was no Mistra Village then but in the following months my late husband...

Alfred Justified by Nick on Xarabank

Sunday, 6 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I refer to a letter by Joe Azzopardi published on 8 December, as well as to an article by Dr Austin Sammut in The Times of Malta. These mentioned my ...

Rhetoric And clichés

Sunday, 6 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

“L-gholi tal-hajja jifnik” (The high cost of living wears you down). Do you remember this slogan? ...

Today We ring the bells, tomorrow we wring our hands!

Sunday, 6 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I was astonished with what the leader-writer wrote about the Maltese lira’s demise and the adoption of the euro (TMIS, 30 December). I found the heading “Goodbye Lm, and good riddance” in very bad taste and insulting to the Maltese people....

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