Stupider And stupider
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The divorce campaign, with its attendant stupidities, has become so tedious that the referendum will have the effect of lancing a wound – at least for as long as it ...
Can Doctors see family members?
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Can a doctor see a member of his or her own family? This question is especially pertinent to the local family doctor. It is all the more pertinent when we introduce ...
Using Children as a weapon in the divorce debate
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
What is it about the Maltese Church and the anti-divorce movement, Żwieġ bla Divorzju, that causes them to use children as weapons in the battle to win votes in the forthcoming referendum to introduce remarriage after legal separation?...
Rehabilitation Hospital Karin Grech... One year on
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
On 10 and 11 May of last year, Zammit Clapp Hospital closed its doors and all services migrated to Rehabilitation Hospital Karin Grech (RHKG). All services, ...
Home Truths from the killing fields
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
First came the Arab Spring. Then came news of an Egyptian brokered Fatah-Hamas reconciliation deal. And at midnight Sunday week we had the killing of Osama bin Laden...
Two Tests for Europe
Monday, 9 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Famed across the world as the continent of culture and taste, for centuries it seemed as if Europe, for every great masterpiece, also had ...
On Religion and public space
Monday, 9 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
When the suicide bomb exploded as worshippers left New Year’s mass at a Coptic church in Alexandria, 21 people died and 79 were wounded. It’s hard to imagine a more grim, ghastly, or tragic way to ring in a new decade...
Celebrating The past for a better future
Monday, 9 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Last Saturday, we celebrated the 55th anniversary of the enactment by the Maltese Parliament of the Social Security Act....
Unknown Father
Sunday, 8 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Over the last 10 years, 3,250 children were born in Malta whose paternity was registered as ‘unknown’. This makes the mothers whores with too many clients to keep track of, or just women who got ...
J’accuse: Mother’s Way
Sunday, 8 May 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Many moons have waxed and waned since our days in the schoolyard under the watchful supervision of adults. In those days of Lemonora and Desserta canteen treats, life was relatively...