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Virtute Nitet!

Saturday, 19 September 2020, 08:38 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Asciak

Any political party, which works under the cloud of a large electoral loss, is simply wasting its time. The PN has been labouring under the cloud of Adrian Delia's leadership for three years. It has...

Being there for the people

Friday, 18 September 2020, 08:20 Last update: about 7 years ago Ivan Bartolo

The Maltese are no strangers to politics and political interactions. Such interactions involve the same Maltese having multiple opportunities to personally connect with politicians, being at political...

Malta Pride 2020

Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 06:54 Last update: about 7 years ago

We may not have had parades and parties to mark Malta Pride this year, but we can still celebrate the progress we have achieved. If there is one government that has proved the strength of its...

Comfortably numb

Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 06:52 Last update: about 7 years ago

There is a distance between our minds and the perception of reality when we choose to endorse unproven claims that cleverly mask the truth. We are left looking around us, unable to tell the...

Mistaking equality for uniformity

Monday, 14 September 2020, 06:57 Last update: about 7 years ago Clyde Puli

Equality. Which wellmeaning person wouldn’t consider it as a value to cherish, a political aim to which to aspire? And yet, which smart person wouldn’t think that unqualified equality is a...

SMEs - A strong backbone to our economy

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 08:02 Last update: about 7 years ago Silvio Schembri

From where we are standing, there are very few known variables as to how this pandemic will proceed. However, what is certain is that it will irrevocably reshape life as we know it, and by the time...

Managing tourism through a global pandemic

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 07:49 Last update: about 7 years ago

We are all still familiar with the scenes in Barcelona and Venice last year when the tourism industry was showing the signs of a mass activity that had lost its real sense of hospitality and service....

Charity comes back home where providence lives

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 07:48 Last update: about 7 years ago Jesmond Saliba

On 12 September 1965, Mons. Michael Azzopardi made the first public appeal for donations to Id-Dar tal-Providenza with a heartfelt message roaring over the national radio waves. Our society has seen...

Making mental health a priority for all

Saturday, 12 September 2020, 07:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Ivan Bartolo

Children and young adults will be returning to school, when the pandemic situation in Malta is far worse than it was in March when schools closed. Precautionary guidelines and measures in place or...

No child in poverty

Friday, 11 September 2020, 07:11 Last update: about 7 years ago

Despite the fact that every child has the right to live in a peaceful environment, free from violence, and free from abuse and neglect, the harsh reality is that a number of children around Europe,...

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