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The brave heart of our services

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Justyne Caruana

Ensuring full dignity for those we serve, as well as providing high quality services, has been my prime mover since taking office as Parliamentary Secretary for the Rights of People with a Disability...

ITS: an investment in our human capital

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 10:06 Last update: about 12 years ago Edward Zammit Lewis

The mission of the Institute for Tourism Studies (ITS) is to act as the key provider of vocational training for future workers in our thriving hospitality industry. The institute enables its students...

Nightmare on Malta’s streets

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 10:05 Last update: about 12 years ago Michael Asciak

The school year has started and so has the traffic congestion associated with it. Someone at the Education Department suggested that school should start earlier so there would be less congestion! It...

Gozo figuring well

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 10:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Anton Refalo

During the long, frustrating years spent in Opposition, I was a reluctant witness of Gozo's relegation to Malta's backwater, a mere holiday resort for a privileged few. I will never forget the...

Three experiences that made me love the power of the #crowd

Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 11:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Sammut Alessi

You hear stories all the time about how "the crowd" is solving issues and challenges of all kinds; so I wanted to share three recent experiences (past & present!) that made me love the power of...

A dynamism that rejuvenates the House

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 09:46 Last update: about 12 years ago Justyne Caruana

Last Tuesday I felt enriched with the experience and joy of sharing a wonderful morning in a face-to-face debate with some of our young people on various current topics.  \It was one of those...

Can we be more open for business?

Friday, 25 September 2015, 13:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Ronald Attard

“The difficulty,” the seminal economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” True, but in today’s...

Is the Labour government set to select human beings?

Sunday, 20 September 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Michael Asciak

A few days ago I was invited to take part in a discussion on certain bioethical issues on Dr Andrew Azzopardi’s radio show on Radio Malta. One of the invited phone-ins was Parliamentary...

135 years of service

Sunday, 20 September 2015, 10:00 Last update: about 12 years ago

This week holds a special significance for this country and for the Nationalist Party. This year, the Nationalist Party will celebrate the 135th anniversary since its founding. It will also be...

No room for misinterpretation

Sunday, 20 September 2015, 09:30 Last update: about 12 years ago Justyne Caruana

It has been a while since stopped wondering why some people are so negative about all the good results attained by this government. There were times when I was led to believe that they could still...

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