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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...

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