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Check Against delivery

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

As I write, we still do not know if we will have a bus system or none at all today....

The Maltese Fiddle while Greece burns

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

I suppose it was to be expected that discussion of the Greek debt crisis would be, in Malta, reduced to talk of Joseph Cuschieri’s utterly stupid comment on using leverage to get our sixth ...

Move Back, she’s full up

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Did you ride one of the last buses yesterday as a tribute and fond farewell to Malta’s quaint public transport “system”? ...

A Dog’s life

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Now does the title imply a miserably unhappy existence, or the life of Riley? It does rather depend on what kind of a dog, or Dogg, we are talking about....

Property Glut and property market bust?

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

No messenger bearing bad news can expect to be popular. This has been the fate of governors of central banks the world over. In Malta, the solid, level-headed a...

J’accuse: The Secret of comedy

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Sometimes the difference between the deadly serious and the irreverently humorous is narrower than the proverbial fine line. Often it takes that “banana moment” when the marching soldier...

Ode To joy on the buses

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

A short trip to Liverpool, where a lifelong wish to do the Beatles Trail was finally realised, gave me the opportunity to go on an Arriva bus on the way to another famous shrine associated with this great port city – Anfield. ...

The Great Greek teetering act

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As the huffing, puffing and wheezing brought on by the divorce dilemma subsides, the country may now wish to turn its attention to more pressing matters that surround us. Although the riotous assemblies in Syntagma Square ...

Between The devil and the desert

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

I came across a quote attributed to the Financial Times recently and it went like this. “Is it really comforting that parties lose their members, abandon their ideas, become disengaged from a broader social movement, motMuscat...

What’s Happening at White Rocks?

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Last year, the government ceremoniously announced what it said was a €200 million project that would change the face of sport in Maltese. ...

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