The Malta Independent 30 April 2024, Tuesday
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Democratic Drag

Sunday, 27 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

The breakfast meeting to discuss the Budget for 2006, organised by The Malta Business Weekly and Hotel Phoenicia Meridien, delivered a clear message to the government....

When Small can be ugly

Sunday, 27 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Our very smallness has its advantages. It gives us great things like very close family networks that are easily maintained as we don’t live more than 20 minutes ...

Worse Than unemployed

Sunday, 27 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Ever since the news broke that almost one thousand employees would lose their job in the largest remaining textile industry in Malta,...

CHOGGING

Sunday, 27 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

As you read this, lots of people out there will be feeling a strange sense of anti-climax. All those months of preparation and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is over in the blink of a very tense eye. ...

Thanks To everyone

Sunday, 27 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

That is the best account of the CHOGM Opening Spectacle put up for a Queen and over 40 presidents and prime ministers from around the globe. It is thanks to everyone that the damn thing worked. ...

Why Are we waiting?

Saturday, 26 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

The last echoes of the budget debate have receded almost completely, and all the political vapour has cleared. The audience, who followed the ding-dong battle of slogans and statistics, is more bewildered than ever before....

Malta And CHOGM

Friday, 25 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Today is CHOGM day.Malta has, over the past months, prepared in earnest for this day. ...

Sprint Or marathon

Friday, 25 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

CHOGM, which stands for Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting, has brought to our midst a diverse array of leading political ...

Notebook

Thursday, 24 November 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

The panic about bird flu has subsided. But bombs, terrorists and CHOGM have filled the vacuum. ...

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