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Our road map

Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 15:46 Last update: about 13 years ago Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi

Our road map was compiled after listening to ideas expressed by all sectors of Maltese society. It has been embraced by an impressive variety of people consisting of professionals in all sectors,...

Health as a priority

Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 08:43 Last update: about 13 years ago Peter Fenech

Health is always in the limelight, however this week it hit the political agenda, with the consequence that we have relived the advances made in the health sector over the last five years and...

My choice today

Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 08:43 Last update: about 13 years ago Caroline Galea

The Nationalist Party has issued its electoral programme for the March election. Qabza ohra ta’ kwalita (Another quality leap) is a document that encompasses no less than 125 proposals aimed at...

The game changer

Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 08:28 Last update: about 13 years ago Leo Brincat

The PL manifesto launched last week was a game changer in itself. Not only was it well received by various strata of civil society and major stakeholders but its 837 proposals spread over 20 chapters...

Biggest story of the campaign

Monday, 11 February 2013, 10:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

In four weeks’ time we will know what the election verdict is. Having passed the half way mark, it is relevant to ask what, so far, has been the biggest story of the campaign.   Any...

PN picking up, but will it be enough?

Sunday, 10 February 2013, 09:34 Last update: about 14 years ago Stephen Calleja

It has not been a good week for the Labour Party.   What seemed to be a steady, easy-going campaign that would lead the PL to government after a 15-year absence has encountered successive...

Can social progress be achieved through elections?

Sunday, 10 February 2013, 09:31 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

I have come to think we have learnt nothing from our very recent history.   Take the introduction of divorce, which is now accepted as forming part of our society’s...

Face off

Sunday, 10 February 2013, 09:25 Last update: about 13 years ago Pamela Hansen

Never have we been reminded so persistently that politics monopolise the news, to the point that people who are not engrossed in the whole election shebang are fed up to their back teeth with all the...

Lies, fibs and fabrications

Sunday, 10 February 2013, 09:24 Last update: about 14 years ago Roger Mifsud

It has been a campaign based on a lie, other lies, and fear mongering so far.   And it is not Joseph Muscat who is doing the lying or exuding fear.   For instance: “Finanzi...

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