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Towards removing involuntary treatment

Sunday, 25 April 2021, 07:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Pierre Mallia

The Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe has been discussing, over the past few years, an additional protocol to the Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on involuntary...

Historic landmark

Sunday, 25 April 2021, 07:47 Last update: about 6 years ago

There should be no doubt the gender bill approved in Parliament with cross-party support was a historic landmark and, as the Prime Minister said immediately after, a step forward to achieve what for...

International Girls in ICT Day

Thursday, 22 April 2021, 09:02 Last update: about 6 years ago Renee Laiviera

“Girls have to contribute towards innovation and technology. We all need to come together and develop the world” underlined Jakomba Jabbie, who at 16 years of age started a robotics club...

To change and to deliver

Thursday, 22 April 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago

Change is a strong word. It is one thing talking about change and the need to change and another to implement it, for talk is cheap.  Also, change comes at a cost. A huge cost if one looks at the...

A renewed PN

Thursday, 22 April 2021, 08:58 Last update: about 6 years ago

When I decided to join the PN, it was during a very difficult time for the party, a time we were unpopular, seen by many as arrogant, a party that was seen to have lost connection with the people. A...

A question of salaries

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 08:02 Last update: about 6 years ago

In a recent interview with DrLawrence Gonzi, TV presenter Mark Laurence Zammit questioned the former prime minister about his administration’s subtle increase in the honoraria paid to appointed...

Back to work

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 07:59 Last update: about 6 years ago

We need to adjust to new economic realities quickly. Until Covid hit, our public employment services were focused on processing immigrant labour as fast as the rising demand from local businesses...

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