Maltese Apartheid
Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Martin Gatt is a 43-year-old assistant manager who used to work with a mid-sized shoe manufacturing company at Bulebel. The foreign-owned company had been in Malta since 1983 ...
State Of denial
Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
I have always suspected it but now the proof is concrete solid. We are living in a state of denial....
A Moment In Time: That 70s show
Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
As we get older we tend to remember and categorise everything by decades. I wonder if that’s meant to camouflage something or merely a way of enveloping experiences and events so that they fit, prim and proper, into the letterbox of time....
(Sur)real Estate
Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Economic history teaches us that more often than not, an economic bust is the result of the fallout from the collective hysteria attributed to an asset or a class of assets by a population drunk on false financial expectations ...
Seeing Is believing
Saturday, 23 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
In local politics, there is no rest for the weary. Just when ministers and MPs were gearing themselves up for the summer parliamentary recess, 20 business firms involved in the supply of pharmaceuticals, medical ...
Noises And voices – at Bahar ic-Caghaq
Friday, 22 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Last Monday the residents of Bahar ic-Caghaq, together with residents from Madliena, voiced their concern to the Government by means of a peaceful, coordinated gathering outside Parliament. ...
Friday Wisdom: Alternative Employment
Friday, 22 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Whenever a government owned enterprise, organisation, authority (or whatever name is assigned to it) hits the rocks and needs to shed labour to stem the financial haemorrhage, the unions expect, as of a ...
Penalised For being Maltese in Malta
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Travel broadens the mind, they say, and few need to have their minds broadened more than people who live on a couple of tiny islands hanging somewhere between Sicily and Tunisia....
AD – Winning The right to choose
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
The Housing Authority chairman-cum-journalist, Marisa Micallef, seems to have nothing better to do than to dedicate her columns to political diatribes against the Green Party....
Ghost Wars and the war on terror
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
“At the CIA station in Islamabad the new era arrived in the form of visiting delegations from Washington....