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Need For judiciary and political reforms

Saturday, 22 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

The recent call for an increase in the salaries of the judiciary is the latest cry for reform of a democratic institution. In this past year we have seen wage packages of our democratic ...

What Does the EU’s first Competitiveness Report reveal?

Saturday, 22 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Commission’s first annual Competitiveness Report, published last week, assesses member states’ economic performance against the Europe 2020 Strategy’s new framework for budgetary surveillance...

The Global jobs challenge

Friday, 21 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Over the past three decades, hundreds of millions of new workers have entered the global economy. ...

Sports, Inkontri And Alfred Sant

Friday, 21 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In this article, I would like to share some thoughts on the sports elements within the two districts I represent, Swieqi and Sliema...

A Sorry reality of today – Gozo is not working

Thursday, 20 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

If there is an area in which the Gozo Ministry has failed to deliver during the last 10 years it is in creating adequate employment opportunities in Gozo...

The Tail wags the dog

Thursday, 20 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

If the Nationalist Party does not come down hard on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, Franco Debono and Jesmond Mugliett, the electorate will come down hard on the Nationalist Party....

Obama Carves new chapter in King legacy

Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Standing beneath the looming presence of Martin Luther King Jr., President Barack Obama carved out his own version of black leadership with a message of racial unity...

Emergency Contraception

Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

We do not usually give emergency contraception, or the ‘morning after pill’, in Malta since it has been frowned upon as possibly being abortifacient if an egg has been fertilised, and therefore governments have always refused its importation...

Suffocating In Iran

Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I left Iran early last time. Not because I wanted to, but because I couldn’t breathe. It was mid-December 1999, and the air was heavy with a thick black smog...

The Good Samaritan

Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Populist or not in his presentation style, Joe Azzopardi – now self-styled as Peppi – has undoubtedly strong communication skills...

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