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Trade Unions on a jittery ride

Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Better late than never. The Director of the Department of Industrial & Employment Relations (DIER), Dr Noel Vella, had his first report as registrar of trade unions – showing the state of the nation’s trade union...

Nurturing Home-grown innovation

Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

One of the often-repeated mantras chanted by the Ministry for IT is that one of the primary goals is to make Malta an IT hub. Over the past few years we have heard the Ministry announce a number of new projects....

A Moment In Time: A dose of Double Dutch and Doctor at Large

Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The Dutch seem to have an innate gift for trying to be smarter than the rest of us in Europe – and I don’t just mean the amazing engineering structures they have built known as dykes, or their human equivalent so ...

How To spend Lm250 million

Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

The journey that takes me from Attard to Sliema almost every working morning includes a perfunctory trip around Malta’s costliest ever infrastructural project – the Mater Dei Hospital. ...

I Don’t know

Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Various local and EU surveys have reported that the popularity of this Lawrence Gonzi government is improving, albeit by small leaps and little bounds....

Networking: A Need for the 21st Century

Saturday, 28 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The proliferation of information is nothing new nowadays especially that the internet has gathered momentum, with online users increasing every day together with broadband and other offers from their respective ISPs....

Beyond Make-belief

Saturday, 28 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

When Prime Minister Gonzi exchanged New Year greetings with members of the diplomatic corps on 12 January, he had some ringing words about the government’s primary goal....

A New beginning

Friday, 27 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We have been slapped with a new, recycled slogan by the Malta Labour Party – that of a new beginning. After so many years in opposition, a position that they carry so well, and having already made use of the new Labour slogans, they came up with this one....

Friday Wisdom: It’s Not a gift at all

Friday, 27 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

I consider it an insult to the intelligence of the Maltese nation that the Prime Minister and the minister responsible for the health sector have this week described the Mater Dei project as a gift to the Maltese nation. ...

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