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The culture change needed in the construction industry - PART 1

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 09:44 Last update: about 8 years ago John Ebejer

In recent days and weeks there has been a lot of debate on construction, almost all which has focused on how construction sites can be made safer for third-party properties.  The collapse of a...

Allow the truth to set us free

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 09:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Timothy Alden

There has now been a promise for a public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia within three months. This seemingly arises as a result of the Council of Europe report. Only a...

Kurt Farrugia: he who convinced me to remain in politics

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 10:49 Last update: about 8 years ago Arnold Cassola

The Prime Minister’s spokesman Kurt Farrugia is, at the moment, quite in the news. LovinMalta has suggested that he will soon be leaving his present post and taking up the chairmanship...

Booting Delia out for democracy?

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 10:08 Last update: about 8 years ago Roger Mifsud

You will have heard how foresighted the Nationalist Party has always been. Every PN leader boasts of that at one time or another, and there are many times or others at which they do it. They will...

Gozo’s sustainable well-being

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 09:42 Last update: about 8 years ago Justyne Caruana

“The right of the present generation to use what it needs of the natural resources now available, makes it equally our obligation that our descendants shall not be deprived of what they...

The Spitzenkandidaten process revisited

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 09:06 Last update: about 8 years ago

Many, mostly Federalists, locked in a parallel universe which I call the Brussels bubble, keep bashing the intergovernmental approach taken at the last EU Summit in the selection of those presiding...

A layman's guide to avoiding Armageddon

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 09:04 Last update: about 8 years ago Timothy Alden

This week, a world-famous scientific report suggested that a global campaign to plant trees could be the most effective way to mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change. This is due to the...

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