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Procedural Rights in criminal proceedings

Friday, 13 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

People in Europe facing criminal proceedings outside of their country of residence are faced with language problems if they are not acquainted with the language of the country where they are being prosecuted...

Secularism To the rescue of the Arab Spring

Thursday, 12 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Spring has come early this year to the Arab world. Climate change has awakened the once comatose Middle East from the stupor of singular leaderships. A new dawn of democracy and freedom is sprouting from Morocco to Oman. Or so we are told...

Stupider And stupider

Thursday, 12 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 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 14 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 13 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 13 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 13 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 14 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 13 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 14 years ago Malta Independent

Last Saturday, we celebrated the 55th anniversary of the enactment by the Maltese Parliament of the Social Security Act....

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