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What will become of my child?

Thursday, 8 May 2014, 08:05 Last update: about 13 years ago Roberta Metsola

        That was the first question that was asked of me by a parent at a recent meeting I held with organisations and families involved in the disability sector. As a...

Human drainage

Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Austin Sammut

I am not referring to human excrement, but human remains (and please excuse my unsavoury references). We read with utter disgust in the last days of a plan or project to solve the cemeteries’...

Steel soldiers and the EU

Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 14:30 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

At the reception area, a stocky person in a wrathful manner demanded to see the Minister.  Politely the receptionist asked whether he had an appointment.  No. I do not. I want to make...

Woman power

Monday, 5 May 2014, 11:02 Last update: about 13 years ago Marlene Farrugia

The Prime Minister's communication's office et al have done it again.    This time round it was Joseph Muscat himself who was shoved into a press conference...

The 10-year itch

Sunday, 4 May 2014, 10:41 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

So we celebrated 10 years of EU membership this week.   For all the organisers’ efforts, there was an abysmal difference between then and now.   The fireworks may have been...

Inflation disinflation and deflation

Sunday, 4 May 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

The divide of the euro area countries, between the strong core and the weak periphery (with Malta being an exception: a speck of core on the periphery), is now showing up in the debate about the risk...

I spy with my little eye...

Sunday, 4 May 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Genius. That’s what I think of my niece as she destroys me, yet again, at the little children’s game. I’d like to think she has an advantage, seeing that she’s only seven and...

The myth of security

Sunday, 4 May 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Marie Benoît

There comes a point in life when it dawns on you that anything can happen at any time. This is a painful, even alarming realisation. But such is the truth of our lives. At the heart of it all seems to...

The fundamental option

Sunday, 4 May 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Michael Asciak

I very much believe that those who are expecting the Church to come out strongly in the future and enter the political fray on bioethical issues, bar issues regarding the fundamental right to life...

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