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‘What we do today will define tomorrow’

Thursday, 14 May 2020, 07:25 Last update: about 7 years ago

After every cataclysmic event, one tends to think that the world will never be the same.  This time it is true that in certain ways the world must change. Global history is laden with such...

Social Media, the Digital World & Solitude

Monday, 11 May 2020, 08:59 Last update: about 7 years ago Ivan Bartolo

The use of social media in the 21st century has soared upwards in an ever-increasing digital world. Not having access to it, or not availing oneself of, could be interpreted as being illiterate. It...

The Coronavirus reflections

Monday, 11 May 2020, 08:52 Last update: about 7 years ago

With the spread of the Coronavirus the world changed, life was shattered and normality devastated. This however is not only a change which will last as long as the pandemic endures; the post-pandemic...

Muscatonomics

Sunday, 10 May 2020, 09:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Timothy Alden

The involvement of Joseph Muscat in any discussion about the country's future raises a ghastly spectre. In its economic context, it also reminds us that despite all the propaganda about prosperity...

Not a freehand licence

Sunday, 10 May 2020, 09:11 Last update: about 7 years ago

With everything happening in the world, in government, and even within my own ministry, one particular issue predominated my past few weeks: construction waste.  I held many meetings,...

Restarting the economy

Sunday, 10 May 2020, 09:01 Last update: about 7 years ago Silvio Schembri

It has been a tumultuous few weeks. The threat of a virtually unknown disease and the anxiety arising from this unprecedented fear has taken its emotional toll on most of us. Fear for the wellbeing of...

The gift that keeps on stinking

Thursday, 7 May 2020, 07:32 Last update: about 7 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

It has now been years that the whiff of corruption has hung around the gift of three of our hospitals to shady operators. First it was Vitals Global Healthcare. Now it is Steward Health Care. I have...

Resilience in the face of adversity

Thursday, 7 May 2020, 07:31 Last update: about 7 years ago

We are living in unusual times, very unusual times. But then at intervals the world has always had to face up to a crisis, be it economic, military or medical, that shook the foundations of the order...

The times, they are a-changing

Thursday, 7 May 2020, 07:29 Last update: about 7 years ago

There is no magic formula that makes problems vanish. Certainly not for those brought about by a small, shapeless element of nature globally known as the Novel Coronavirus.  Little did we know...

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