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Merry Christmas to our businesses

Monday, 24 December 2018, 08:39 Last update: about 9 years ago Peter Agius

Some of our businesses depend on this time of the year to assess whether their enterprise is worthwhile. The festive season is welcome by all of us for one reason or another. For most, it is time...

Thank God it’s Christmas

Monday, 24 December 2018, 08:38 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

It’s that time of the year once again. Once December approaches, a new kind of atmosphere starts taking over. “We are witnessing a strong campaign to stop saying ‘Merry...

Mary Poppins returns with an antidote to melancholy

Sunday, 23 December 2018, 10:00 Last update: about 9 years ago George M Mangion

What you want for Christmas is to be left alone and enjoy the simple life. Yes, it has been an exciting year for everyone, with the good news that our Budget so lauded and revered by most since it has...

A Christmas Present

Sunday, 23 December 2018, 09:42 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

TVM recently broadcast a programme about a Żebbuġi who all Żebbuġin love: Leli Zammit, a 60-year-old who has Down's Syndrome and is really the most loved person in...

A Saviour has been born for us

Sunday, 23 December 2018, 09:40 Last update: about 9 years ago

Over time, society is increasingly flaunting its achievements in respect of freedom. Freedom is man's highest gift, so much so that there have been many who have given their life for it. Freedom has...

Facts and only facts matter

Sunday, 23 December 2018, 09:09 Last update: about 9 years ago Justyne Caruana

The highest growth in economic and social development, together with the country's steadily increasing prosperity, are constant and essential guarantees for opportunities where everyone can progress...

The PD Christmas special

Sunday, 23 December 2018, 09:07 Last update: about 9 years ago Timothy Alden

First of all, I would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas. It has been another difficult year riven by partisan fury in Malta’s endless tribal war. There is, therefore, no better time than...

Homeless in Christmas

Saturday, 22 December 2018, 09:33 Last update: about 9 years ago Michael Briguglio

I was contacted to meet a family a few weeks ago. I duly visited their home in St Julian's. I entered and was shocked. Belongings were packed, basic household appliances were missing, and poverty was...

The future of our economy depends on our people

Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 14:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

Working life is becoming more and more complex. The use of technology in the workplace is no longer an innovative luxury, it is rather a necessity. Electronics and technology is everywhere today:...

Potpourri

Sunday, 16 December 2018, 09:59 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I want to pass some quick comments on a potpourri of topics that have attracted my attention in the past few days: the spectre of abortion haunting us again, literature, the new English-loanword...

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