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Housing Huffs and puffs

Sunday, 12 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It seems like our housing market is quietening, is huffing and puffing with tiredness after a 10-year building frenzy which has left Malta looking uglier and feeling dustier...

Begging Pardon

Sunday, 12 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I wasn’t surprised by the feedback I received on the current presidential pardons controversy. The root cause of the unease seems to be not so much the pardons themselves,...

Consultation And representation

Saturday, 11 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) was set up under new legislation and met for the first time in September 200l. It could not be claimed that it has lived up to expectations....

Local Councils’ shortcomings

Friday, 10 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

My last article on the state of San Gwann and its residents, including those who live in Kappara, and the lack of reaction from the mayor, continues to anger the residents of San Gwann. ...

Friday Wisdom: Selling Right

Friday, 10 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Melita Cable was sold by its founding private shareholders to an international private equity fund for a total enterprise value of EUR167 million....

The Raison d’etre of EU funding

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Without any doubt, each and every Maltese citizen has come into contact with some sort of advertisement or information related to Malta’s benefits from EU funding. ...

The Incredible shrinking man

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The London newspapers regularly report the fact that girls are doing much better at school than boys, who are falling behind and dropping out, and that women are crowding into universities and performing better all round at work ...

A New beginning

Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Last Monday week, the Labour Party gave the Maltese people a taste of what the dialogue process we undertook with the civil society was really like; and this through its publishing the Pjan ghal Bidu Gdid (Plan for a New Beginning). ...

Humanitarian Aid

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

In the last few weeks, the European Union has provided EUR59 million in humanitarian aid to several countries around the globe – much needed assistance to victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts. ...

Labour’s Strategy of calm and rational change

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

If Labour faced a degree of indifference when its individual policy documents and vision statements were published, I will not be surprised if the same approach is adopted in its regard now that ...

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