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Brand Malta

Sunday, 28 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 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 13 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 14 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 13 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?...

MACP Reacts to extension of development boundaries

Saturday, 27 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The Malta Chamber of Planners (MaCP) is concerned about Government’s announcement of the extension of the development boundaries. ...

Focus On opinion-makers

Saturday, 27 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

A viable democracy thrives on dependable information. For one thing, the routine of government must be publicized, More importantly, democratic government must have its fingers on the electoral pulse....

A Different kind of anger

Friday, 26 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

I am angry. So is practically all the population. This is the state of mind for all of us except for the perpetrators who have taken it upon themselves to intimidate not only politicians and journalists,...

Managing Expectations

Friday, 26 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

One of the trickiest aspects in the euro changeover project is ensuring that the process will be inflation neutral. Militating against this objective is the natural inclination to expect an impulse of inflation from the ...

After The Cuban missile crisis: Now it’s Watergate

Thursday, 25 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

After the bakers’ demand that the price of a hobza should be raised by one cent – an event treated by politicians and journalists like the Cuban missile crisis – we have a thrilling new debacle on our hands. ...

Rationalisation Of development boundaries: A transparent and fair process

Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Cabinet has decided on a set of criteria upon which decisions relating to amendments to the development boundary are to be based. The rationalisation process is required to address anomalies that resulted from the 1989 exercise. ...

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