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How Flexible are we?

Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Several times we have heard Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi say that one of Malta’s major assets is its human resources. ...

Tecom Revisited

Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Minister Austin Gatt has been arguing all along that there is no correlation between the market price of Maltacom’s shares and the actual value of the company....

Magistrates, Do you have permission?

Monday, 29 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The Justice and Home Affairs Minister is presently trying to pass legislation that will amend specific areas of the Criminal Code and other laws. Most of the amendments are plausible and merit the support and approval of the Opposition. But three particul...

Act On the Act!

Monday, 29 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

"It is the duty of everyone together with the government to protect the environment and to assist in the taking of preventive and remedial measures to protect the environment and manage natural resources in a sustainable manner." So says the Environment P...

What’s A nice girl like you doing there?

Sunday, 28 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The nuns at St Dorothy’s Convent must be swelling with pride. There, seated to Norman Lowell’s left at his press conference on Friday was his right-hand woman, ...

Time Lost cannot be recalled

Sunday, 28 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Parliamentary Secretary Tonio Fenech was frank enough to confess the government’s concern about inflation, when he addressed a number off local journalists at a two-day seminar on the euro at Le Meridien St Julian’s last week....

Brand Malta

Sunday, 28 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

So who would you choose to represent Brand Malta?...

High Drama and flat notes

Sunday, 28 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Ah, don’t you just love the soap opera which is the Eurovision – the drama, the tears, the shouting matches at the airport? ...

Fearlessness, Liberal bigots and the passionaria

Sunday, 28 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

My attention was drawn to a contribution penned by Daphne Caruana Galizia loaded with personal invectives, untruths, and gratuitous imputations in my regard, completely lacking in substance ...

Judging Maltacom

Sunday, 28 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

How should one judge whether the privatisation of government’s controlling stake in Maltacom has been a success, a failure, or somewhere in between?...

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