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A Beautiful day with the ghost of sadness

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Like millions of other people around the world, I was glued to the television last Friday. We held a mini-‘watching party’ at home and my mother, my sisters and my nieces ...

J’accuse: ‘Non Gode Di Immunità Ecclesiastica’

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Fully qualified law graduate and state approved lawyer Dr Deborah Schembri has been told that she can no longer practice as a lawyer in the Church tribunal “because she is ...

Sharing Gold

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Do all countries have a chance of success in international sport? Undoubtedly, the personal ability of the ...

Valletta: Polishing a jaded jewel

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It is a pity that the harbour regeneration plan that was announced with such ceremony by the erstwhile Public Investment Minister Dr Austin Gatt three years ago has been scaled down. When the plan was announced, ...

More Notes on divorce

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Last week I wrote that a “No” victory in the divorce referendum will set Malta back decades. And the way the anti-divorce campaigners, led by the Church, ...

Divorce, Bikinis and statistics

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

“Statistics are like bikinis, what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital…” Aaron Levenstein (American author and business lecturer)....

The Scourge of modern day slavery

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The story of Kira* beggars belief. Kira is a 28-year-old Moldavian woman who has, for seven years, spent most of her time as a sex slave. Her story was exposed in the British media ...

Strada Stretta

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I never got further than Vincenti Buildings (that bourgeois edifice just before the back of the Law Courts coming down from South Street) in Strait Street when I was growing up....

Damming Capital

Saturday, 30 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Capital-account regulations have been at the centre of global financial debates for two years....

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