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US, Malta partnering to prevent nuclear smuggling

Sunday, 17 August 2014, 14:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA) Second Line of Defence (SLD) Programme has partnered with key stakeholders in Malta to install a radiation...

Drama at two Mġarrs

Sunday, 17 August 2014, 12:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Charles Flores

If you can forget the nationwide power cut last Tuesday, then the next top story of the past few days must have been the drama taking place at two Mġarrs – Mġarr in Malta with hardly a tinge of...

Coping with the heat – and getting on with the work

Sunday, 17 August 2014, 11:25 Last update: about 13 years ago Justyne Caruana

We are all talking about the heat and our Secretariat for the Rights of People with Disability and Active Ageing has launched a campaign appealing to everyone who has friends or relatives who are...

The infrastructural deficit

Sunday, 17 August 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

The jury is still out on what caused Tuesday’s massive power cut. There are all sorts of inquiries being made and one hopes that eventually the truth, however complex, will out. And, if there...

The PN (now) needs you

Saturday, 16 August 2014, 10:30 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Some, myself included, have received an SOS from the PN. The PN needs “our” input. It implores those receiving its SOS that it urgently requires the inputs of well-intentioned volunteers....

50 years old

Saturday, 16 August 2014, 10:25 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Turning back the pages through the long and arduous struggle for Independence amongst Malta’s own political parties of the time, we may wonder that we ever actually got there.  We may say...

Left in the dark

Friday, 15 August 2014, 10:17 Last update: about 13 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

This week's national blackout left some in the dark for as long as 18 hours and more (in areas like Haz-Zebbug, Siggiewi, Hal-Luqa and Hal-Qormi). But all of us have now been left in the dark for...

Blackout

Thursday, 14 August 2014, 16:39 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

        “This flight is being diverted to Catania airport in Sicily because of a nationwide power blackout in Malta.” Imagine being on a flight to Malta and...

The poor amongst us

Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 14:43 Last update: about 13 years ago Austin Sammut

I must credit a number of friends, some of whom involved in voluntary social welfare (whose names I will not mention), whom a met at a lunch table, with the following information and comments. These...

The value of transparency

Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 13:16 Last update: about 13 years ago Gejtu Vella

Democracy is often best described as a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally, either directly or indirectly, through elected representatives.  From time to time,...

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