Friday Wisdom: No to backdoor divorce
Friday, 21 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
The tragedy of Lebanon is that as a country it has lost its sovereignty and has allowed itself to be used by foreign countries as a training ground....
Fight Ugliness, not development
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
It seems to me that in the on-going fuss about construction and development, what most people are objecting to is ugliness. ...
On Building and demolishing
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
As the Nationalist era nears its end, we do well to analyse the hype spinned skilfully and maliciously by their media over the last three decades or so....
The Voice Of the Mediterranean malpractices
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Without knowing its full implications, I had set the ball rolling in 2003 when I had asked Foreign Minister Joe Borg to investigate alleged malpractices at the Voice of the Mediterranean. ...
Safety At sea
Monday, 17 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
The ongoing Malta Maritime Authority's Safety at Sea Campaign is enjoying a lot of positive feedback and statistics show that notwithstanding a steady increase in the amount of registered pleasure boats and other vessels....
England, Gozo, Namibia And Malta
Monday, 17 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
No, not my next predicted World Cup semi finalists, but four countries (well I'm in Gozo this weekend writing this and Gozo not only feels like its own separate electoral district....
Interplay Of political power
Sunday, 16 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
Political parties first came into being, and still remain at their core, as social formations. They give flesh to coherent political ideas, formed and enunciated in the process of social discussion. They aspire for political power....
Seeing Off the tourists
Sunday, 16 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
People can only afford to be rude and indifferent to their customers when they have a product that everyone wants or needs and nobody else has. ...
Hand Of Maradona, head of Zidane
Sunday, 16 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
We sat, stood, leapt up, cried out in pain or with joy during all those games, which started off fantastically and then inevitably deteriorated to more and more penalty shootout finishes as the World Cup...
Rising Temperature
Saturday, 15 July 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
Across the length and breadth of Malta, there has been a marked rise in temperature that has nothing to do with the season. The electorate is approaching the run-in to the next general elections....