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Not In the name of progress

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

I have been a Sliema resident for the past 25 years ever since I attended elementary school in the heart of Sliema. I can still recall the picturesque view of the two-storey, neatly aligned...

Property In Malta – the perpetual motion machine? (2)

Saturday, 19 May 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Which way then for the property market in Malta? Next year’s euro changeover will have seen a wall of liri coming out from under the mattresses (perhaps literally) looking for a home (pun unintended) and fuelling inflation....

Power And principle

Saturday, 19 May 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

As the prospects of the next election loom larger and larger, politicians are bound to become more frenetic. ...

Friday Wisdom: Blair’s Ten at ten

Friday, 18 May 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Finally UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced 27 June as the day when he will hand over the premiership to a new leader of the British Labour Party who has to be appointed in the meantime....

The Battle of the market stalls

Thursday, 17 May 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The Valletta market traders are revolting because the government has instructed them to move out of Merchants Street while it is paved and set to rights...

Property In Malta– the perpetual motion machine? (1)

Wednesday, 16 May 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Malta seems to have invented the perpetual motion machine when it comes to investing in property, as house prices have risen by an average seven per cent per annum over two decades. ...

The Air we breathe

Wednesday, 16 May 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

When Portes des Bombes was cleaned up, the revelation was shocking to all. It does not take an enormous leap of imagination to compare the soot and the toxic stains scratched off its walls with the soot stuck to the walls of our lungs....

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