Two Bangs
Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
My earliest childhood memories go back to that Maundy Thursday of 1955 when an explosion at the fireworks factory of St Philip’s Band Club in my village Zebbug claimed the lives of four young men. ...
Gone To the dogs
Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
What? Summer? Here already? How on earth can you tell? Hang on... I know. By all the shark-sighting hoaxes, that’s how....
Life And death in Zebbug and London
Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
It seems all the vacuous debates we have had over the last few weeks, prompted partly by the Children’s Commissioners very silly and inconsiderate remarks on IVF, have now...
God Has nothing to do with it
Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A fireworks factory blows up, killing two men and critically injuring others, one of who is severely burned, and everyone speaks as though it were an act of God. ...
Deaf To defeat
Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
When someone passed the plain brown envelope to me in the dead of night, I could not wait to get home to open it and read what was in it. Walking at a brisk pace, my mind was teeming with ...
Here We go – golfing again...
Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
As I still spend every Thursday evening in summer playing soccer with a group of friends – mostly in my age bracket – who have been at it for more than 30 ...
The Shape of things to come
Saturday, 9 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The recent French Revolution and the Revolt of the Dutch, on the occasion of two separate referenda, amounted to a wake-up call by the polis, in each case the disenchanted electorate....
A Yes vote – with a vengeance
Friday, 8 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Last Wednesday night, Malta’s Parliament elected to vote unanimously in favour of the Treaty which is to establish a Constitution for Europe....
Making History
Friday, 8 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Live concerts, wrist bands, t-shirts and other memorabilia work wonders to temporarily spike the world’s attention to the problem of poverty in Africa. Unfortunately, they count for little by way of making a lasting ...
A High price to pay for a car
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The Health Promotion Department is to request the government to place an immediate ban on the billboard advertising of cigarettes. ...