And Now an urgent need to refocus
Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
And so it’s over. The people were asked to speak and they have spoken. The PN was against divorce in principle, while the PL was for it....
A Moment In Time - The shameless Australian
Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
What a sad story this News of the World business in the UK has been, and I mean this from the concept of the whole media circus around the world....
No Other way out
Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
I have nothing but praise for minister Joe Cassar and parliamentary secretary Mario de Marco for their courageous “yes” vote at the end of the second reading...
A Quantum leap or not?
Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
Of all the comments that I heard and came across in connection with last Wednesday’s vote on the second reading of the Divorce Private Members’ Bill was one particular remark ...
Maltese Appointed Bishop of Malindi in Kenya
Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The Rev. Fr Emmanuel Barbara OFM Cap, the Provincial Minister of the Maltese Capuchins, has been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Bishop of the Malindi diocese in Kenya....
Iran, The Green Movement and the nuclear issue
Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Stefan Simanowitz
“There are deeply authoritarian characters in the Iranian regime who would have no hesitation in using extreme violence against protestors,”...
Moral Progress and animal welfare
Saturday, 16 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” To seek to reduce the suffering of those who are completely under one’s domination, and unable to ...
What Should the EU be doing to combat unemployment?
Saturday, 16 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
With 23 million citizens out of work and an average youth unemployment rate approaching 20%, unemployment is one of the European Union’s primary challenges – only trumped, perhaps, by the eurozone’s debt crisis...
Navigating The road to riches
Friday, 15 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A switchover of global growth engines is taking place. Developing economies as a whole are now the source of more than half of global GDP growth...
The PN Must heed the people
Friday, 15 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
This week I had a fair few things in my diary. By far the most pertinent of these were the passing away of Mrs Fenech Adami and the divorce vote in parliament...