Will Noise rage take over road rage?
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Several days ago I read about a 60-year-old man being harassed by a couple of youngsters because he complained ...
Death Over Gozo
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Even before I got to the Gozo ferry, last Wednesday, the shadow of death could be felt....
Neglecting What saved us
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
We often hear boasts from different quarters claiming credit for the fact that our banking sector has remained...
J’accuse: Preliminary Round
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
My mind’s been elsewhere this week since I’ve had to deal with a horrible combination of deadlines and convoluted case-work that managed to distract me no end from my usual “side-job...
Recession Blues rap local telecoms
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Recession has not spared the local telecoms sector, which now has more than six operators all competing in a miniscule market. But not everything is doom and gloom since GO Group ...
Malta Is ripe for change
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Ever since l964, the Maltese electorate was master in its own home. There is no gainsaying the fact that, as the saying goes, self-government is better than good government....
Someone, Somewhere, save us
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
“Only in Malta” has become a major, embarrassing cliché’ we hear, read and blissfully repeat with monotonous regularity. It is comic at most times, at others desperately frustrating, but there’s no eluding it....
Beneath The beards and burqas
Sunday, 19 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Stefan Simanowitz
The most striking scene in Nick Broomfield’s powerful 2007 film Battle for Haditha is not one of violence but a simple love scene. A wife calls to her husband from an upstairs window. ...
If Fish could scream
Saturday, 18 September 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a sm...