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A Moment In Time: Maltese – Aussie realities

Sunday, 15 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

I have to admit to being somewhat sceptical over what purports to be the Maltese community in Australia and the activities it organises on an annual basis to generate the concept of a Little Malta (can it really be any ...

Staring Into space

Sunday, 15 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Over the past three weeks, I must have spent a total of 25 hours in hospital waiting rooms. I didn’t mind at all. As long as I am warm, not hungry or thirsty, and armed with some magazine...

Black Art of news management

Saturday, 14 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

There has never been a time in politics when impressions did not matter and when unscrupulous individuals did not distort the facts for their own ends. ...

Does Labour Have a foreign policy for Europe?

Friday, 13 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Last week the party in opposition issued a nine-page paper on its foreign policy. The document makes interesting reading, but is also very worrying. It seems that Sant is all out to strengthen relations with the South American sub-continent ...

Friday Wisdom: Malta Warming

Friday, 13 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet ...

Growing Up is hard to do

Thursday, 12 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

How odd it is that people continue to confuse what is secular with what is religious. It is as though they cannot adjust to having two authorities in their lives – religious authority and state authority – and so they wish that ...

A Cultural commitment

Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

At this time of year, the Easter period provides a cultural renewal and a strengthening of our identity. Easter festivities, more then the Christmas season, bring with them a sparkle of Maltese tradition in our everyday life....

Proactive And dynamic

Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

The last week has witnessed the Labour Party placing yet another significant block in its building of firm foundations for a future Labour govern-ment....

Violence Between siblings leads to prison sentence

Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Police v. X 2 April 2007Court of Magistrates (Malta)as a Court of Criminal JudicatureMagistrate Dr Consuelo-Pilar Scerri Herrera ...

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