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Promises made to be broken

Thursday, 3 July 2014, 11:17 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

        This government has bent over backwards and even caused itself a great deal embarrassment to keep promises it must have made to certain individuals and groups...

Malta's best is yet to come

Thursday, 3 July 2014, 08:48 Last update: about 13 years ago Andre Camilleri Camilleri

        Over the last months our country and its economy have taken a turn for the better. Such developments did not happen because of a simple change of individuals at...

The Tower of Babel

Tuesday, 1 July 2014, 09:35 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Few industries experience the continuous change and evolution, whilst essentially still doing the same thing, producing & delivering the same service, as the travel industry does.  The core...

No to recreational drugs

Tuesday, 1 July 2014, 07:57 Last update: about 13 years ago Gejtu Vella

        On drug addiction, I write with heavy heart. Drug addiction has traumatised families and ruined the lives of many. It took local authorities a while to...

Ruminations on the eve of a festa

Monday, 30 June 2014, 07:55 Last update: about 13 years ago Marlene Farrugia

        When I sit down to write something, the same thing invariably happens.  My mind shuts down stubbornly, refuses to think what I need it to think, starts...

Received, compensation not donations

Sunday, 29 June 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

        Earlier this year there was a stage production of the rock opera Gensna, to mark the 35th anniversary of the day Britain refused Mintoff’s pleas to renew...

Some of us don’t get to choose

Sunday, 29 June 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

As most readers already know, my brother has an intellectual disability which, among other things, affects his short-term memory. But whilst he forgets where he has put his shoes, he never forgets...

The invisible people

Sunday, 29 June 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

Politically, it is an all-important cohort: always there, never in decline and if anything, on the increase. But I don’t want to talk politics today (who would, in this heat?)   These...

Bites, bytes and bits

Sunday, 29 June 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

As the month of June cruises towards its end to mark the mid-point of this unfolding year, we have had a month of bites, bytes and bits.   The World Cup has delivered the surprising results...

Legalise it, or should we?

Sunday, 29 June 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Clyde Puli

The government has already declared its intention to decriminalise substance abuse but up to now one cannot understand exactly to where the new drugs’ policy is pointing: will it lead to a...

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