The Malta Independent 8 November 2026, Sunday
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Rosy Josie Does it again

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Doesn’t Josie have a baby to deliver underwater, or a woman to inseminate with a turkey-baster, or something? ...

And They’re off…

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

“Sadly, almost half the EU member countries have far higher unemployment levels than we do, so EU membership alone can’t possibly keep us out of trouble.” ...

A Decade of debt

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The signs of increased affluence over the last decade can be seen almost everywhere in Malta and Gozo. ...

Burning Issues

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It has been said that time is a file that wears and makes no noise. It flies over us, leaving no shadow behind and exposes us all to the test of accountability....

Cleared For take-off

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

While the political engineers of the Nationalist Party are making their last desperate attempt to overhaul the old engine, which has propelled their party for the past 20 years, the Labour Party’s aircraft has been cleared for take-off. ...

The World around us:

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Mother Teresa is my kind of girlLast month, private letters written by Mother Teresa were published for the first time and revealed a 50- year struggle with her faith, or more ...

A Moment In Time: For those not to the ‘manor’ born

Sunday, 16 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

I will always remember the thrill I got when a telephone call to my old Union Press newsroom number brought me the news that my then fiancée and I had been granted a new flat in one of the many new ...

Global Warnings

Saturday, 15 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

You know how you are told to give your kids organic food because pesticides will give them cancer? Well, it’s technically true that there is a link between the chemicals and illness, but the risk is miniscule in any well-regulated country. ...

Ethics Of good governance

Saturday, 15 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

As long ago as l9l7, Max Weber, father of modern sociology, remarked that although politics is not an ethical business, there exists, nevertheless, “a certain minimum of shame and obligation to behave decently, ...

A Football ‘Vitorja’

Friday, 14 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Many a thing turned out right for the Vitorja Festivities. On the eve of the feast, the various village bands had it out in full swing at Mellieha, Naxxar, Senglea and Xaghra, Gozo. ...

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