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Friday Wisdom: Where Is the consumer in all this?

Friday, 29 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Between Maltacom and Melita Cable there was never any love lost. This week, however, they accused and counter-accused each other in the public eye in a way which is not meritorious ...

The Ministry Knows how to lack behind

Thursday, 28 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The Ministry of Finance doesn’t think that there is a national obesity problem. If you’re thin, the ministry can help you get fat. Indeed, that appears to be its intention. It can make you big enough to look terrible in the new ...

Making Work pay

Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Over the last two years the government has adopted a new approach towards the budget. Whereas until a few years ago the public was kept in suspense until the big day, ...

In Lieu

Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Listening to what the Prime Minister had to say to his followers on the eve of Independence Day disturbed me quite seriously...

The Child of the revolution

Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

Chatham House, which is synonymous with The Royal Institute of International Affairs, is no ordinary think tank. It is perhaps the British think tank on foreign affairs that carries most clout. ...

Intellectual Property awareness

Monday, 25 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The innovative and creative mind is the force behind the progress mankind has made since the dawn of civilisation. ...

Brains Is best

Monday, 25 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Newsflash. Europe looks on in amazement. Maltese mums don’t work so Maltese kids are slim, well read, better behaved and not obsessed by television, video games and the like, which is making Europe sick!...

Bottle-fed Babies of the world, unite!

Sunday, 24 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

It looks like the pressure is on again to keep Maltese women barefoot and pregnant, or fiddling around the farmyard like a bunch of brood mares....

Government Spending is no way to measure performance

Sunday, 24 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The Prime Minister’s speech, which ended the PN’s festivities marking the 42nd anniversary of independence, reminded me of the experience I had when a Labour government, as soon as it was elected in ...

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