Research On offshore wind energy in Maltese waters
Monday, 19 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The EU renewable energy directive requires that 20% of the energy used by its member states comes from renewable sources by 2020. Malta must also do its part and we are seeing some renewable energy ...
Climbing Back
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
I don’t have access to any opinion polls but I would wager that at the height of summer, the PN’s popularity nosedived spectacularly....
Edward Scicluna Sits in another parliament and cannot speak for the Opposition
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The other day I wondered out loud why it is always the Leader of the Opposition who criticises the government in matters of the economy and finance. Is he going to be our finance minister as well as our prime minister in 18 months’ time?...
Some Thoughts about referees
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Competitive sport cannot exist without referees, umpires, judges; call them what you will, depending on the sport in question. These are the people who control ...
What A hypocritical world we live in
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
How can countries that market arms to tyrannical regimes pretend that they do not support human rights violations? What is even more two-faced is that they then get on their high horse and interfere militarily, or subtly, ...
Living In the past
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
We’ve all met people who spend their life in the past, constantly re-hashing long ago events and picking at hurtful things that happened years ago, the same way someone picks at a scab....
Twenty Years of pluralism and freedom of expression
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Zapping from one local radio station to another is so easily taken for granted today, but it wasn’t always that way. There was a time, not so long ago, ...
J’accuse: Doves In hawk’s clothing
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
During the Vietnam War, public opinion in the United States of America was virtually split in half between two factions that came to be known as “the hawks” and ...
Of Goats and tsars
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Four years ago, I addressed a Business Breakfast meeting on the subject of Climate Change. The object of the talk was two-fold: to draw attention to this pressing challenge ...
How Labour Seriously damaged Malta’s international standing
Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
In my opinion piece entitled Of bedfellows and lackeys, (TMIS, 4 September), I referred to a CIA document, published by il-Mument, which revealed that in one instance at least...