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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 14 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 17 years ago Malta Independent

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

Shoot The messenger; we don’t like the message

Friday, 29 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Reference is made to the article ‘The divorce debate cannot be divorced from faith’ (Finance Minister Tonio Fenech, TMID, 27 April)...

Whoever Said the Curia was fair?

Thursday, 28 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Deborah Schembri of the Divorce Movement is very cross because the Archbishop’s Curia has banned her from representing clients (she is a lawyer) who wish to have their Catholic marriage declared null...

Resisting The French Resistance

Thursday, 28 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The burka ban France implemented a few days ago signals that many European countries cling to the past and resist accepting the reality that they are multicultural societies Islam is a major presence across France and the European continent. ...

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