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A letter to my son

Sunday, 2 March 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

Dear Son,       Please put down your 5D video game and any other electronic device you might be attached to at this moment and read this. It will only take a few minutes, I...

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Sunday, 2 March 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

It is hard to imagine that it was almost 10 years ago when we finally became part of the European Union. Since then we have benefitted from far more than the Lm1.5 million which Dr Alfred Sant and all...

A time for resolve

Sunday, 2 March 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Joseph Cuschieri

There should be little or no doubt the European Union has reached a stage where it either changes its ways and attitude to the reality of thousands of lives of its everyday working-class citizens, or...

Back on the way to becoming a rogue country

Sunday, 2 March 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

I still have it around somewhere.   On 3 February 1995 I attended the inauguration of the new MFSA building at Mriehel. As a guest, I was given a silver memento.   On the same...

Cheaters prosper

Sunday, 2 March 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Stephen Calleja

A nurse gets her name splashed all over the media because she is accused of stealing €12 worth of pills from Corradino Prison. But then the government does not want criminal action to be taken...

Distinguishing mark

Sunday, 2 March 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Charles Flores

At a time when ideological differences continue to become an ever-narrowing gap, with the Left going Right, the Right going Left and the Centre becoming common, convenient territory for all, there is...

The EU analyses 2030 climate and reindustrialization targets

Saturday, 1 March 2014, 08:58 Last update: about 13 years ago David Casa

Just recently, the EU proposed new climate and energy objectives for 2030. A reconsideration of previous environmental targets came as an attempt to aid industrial recovery and encourage investment in...

Initiatives to generate economic growth

Friday, 28 February 2014, 07:54 Last update: about 13 years ago Ian Borg

A year on, generating economic growth has marked a significant footstep in this government’s roadmap which was approved by the vast majority of the Maltese electorate during the last general...

Humpty Dumpty

Thursday, 27 February 2014, 09:23 Last update: about 13 years ago Norman Vella

When Alice met Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s classic “Through the Looking-Glass”, Humpty Dumpty engages in a manipulation of language, redefining the meaning of words at will,...

Big brother

Thursday, 27 February 2014, 08:01 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Last week,  John Dalli’s more notorious brother Sebastian was in the news again after a period of relative quiet. This was after an Italian newspaper published a report about that...

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