Makers Of the feel-good factor
Saturday, 7 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Elections are fought on different and various fronts. Political campaigns serve to create an environment in which people feel duty-bound to participate and in one way or another shape their future...
Progress For democracy in Burma
Saturday, 7 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
Amid the chaotic democratic movements in the Middle East, on the other side of the world a victory for democracy is igniting hope for a nation...
Why Relics of a bygone age can’t possibly be credible
Thursday, 5 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca spent part of Tuesday morning claiming and complaining that there are not enough pillows for patients at the general hospital...
The Customisation revolution
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
The last two decades were the era of hypermarkets – massive superstores that could dazzle customers with an astonishing array of standardised products....
Traffic Fine petitions: A vision for the future
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
During the past years, my ministry submitted in Parliament a substantial number of bills (38), of which 33 have been approved....
Buying Time and/or ‘buying’ political parties
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
If this government, which seems to be on permanent life support, will ever get round to legislating on the financing of po...
Foreign Policy forgotten
Monday, 2 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
For many foreign audiences, the United States’ primary elections for the 2012 presidential vote – which will, alas, continue to rage into the summer – must be a frightening display of what Americans and their leaders do not know about foreign policy. ...
Time Is running out
Monday, 2 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
By the time Parliament reconvenes towards the end of April, this government will not have put even one law to a vote for four long months. Yet the Prime Minister carries on talking as if this situation is as normal as drinking coffee....
European Capital Of Culture in 2018?
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Frankly, as much as I would like us to achieve that aim, not only because I was born and bred in the city, I don’t hold much hope that we shall, unless we take serious stock of changes that need to be made....