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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....

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