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The innocent damsel and the vulgar racists

Friday, 18 July 2014, 08:08 Last update: about 13 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

      The PN had long been claiming that Sai Mizzi is earning €13,000 a month for work she is supposed to be doing in China. Mizzi herself explained to journalists that this...

Is China a menace?

Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 07:49 Last update: about 13 years ago Austin Sammut

        I don’t have the slightest doubt that it is. It is a threat to our sovereignty, our democracy and our independence. Dr Joseph Muscat is not only selling his...

Health care sustainability

Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Gejtu Vella

        There is no doubt different realities are catching up with us. Not all of our own making but some are. Some realities are major challenges and will continue to be...

Cow dilemma

Monday, 14 July 2014, 09:30 Last update: about 13 years ago Marlene Farrugia

        I'm writing this on a calm, Saturday night under a silver speckled navy blue sky. Just imagine that  you have two children who are not children anymore....

Youth unemployment

Monday, 14 July 2014, 07:51 Last update: about 13 years ago David Casa

            Election campaigns are tough. Just ask those involved in the last one, or better yet ask one of their family members. It is understandable that...

Is Mrs Mizzi working for Malta or China?

Sunday, 13 July 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The journalists who finally pinned Mrs Konrad Mizzi down in China did so not because they tracked her to her lair and flushed her out on their own initiative and at their newspaper’s expense,...

40 years ago, and the wound is still open

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

Forty years ago this week, on 16 July 1974, still a young reporter, I was sent late at night to the Luqa aerodrome (the side entrance, where Lufthansa Technik was until recently).   We were...

Let’s talk about drugs

Sunday, 13 July 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

Luckily, most of us don’t do drugs. Unfortunately this makes us think that drug legislation has nothing to do with us. As a result very few seem to be concerned with what is being proposed in...

Out of the ghetto

Sunday, 13 July 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Marie Benoît

In his Confessions Alfred Sant told us how he travelled around Europe, often on his own, from country to country. There was no one to prevent him from doing it. His parents may not have encouraged it,...

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