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9.11 And Friday the 13th

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It is interesting and intriguing to note that while the government has chosen the date of 9.11 to present its Budget 2010 we have just come to learn that Friday ...

Enforcing The law

Monday, 2 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

“We pay our taxes and bills and all we expect now, at least, is respect”...

Money Is too tight to mention

Monday, 2 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

I am writing at the very late hours of Thursday, 29 October after an eventful day, full of meetings and an exhaustive, but not conclusive meeting, for the members of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development. ...

What Is it going to be?

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

For a whole 30 minutes last Wednesday, the affable Chris Said became the nation’s whipping boy....

Too Big to fail

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Now that the international financial crisis appears to have stabilised after massive interventions by governments, monetary authorities and regulators, focus is shifting from mere survival to re-designing...

I’ve Put a spell on you

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Having spent a week in London, as sod’s law would have it, my computer would not start up – for the first time ever....

J’accuse: Out Of sync

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It has definitely been a weird week chez J’accuse. It’s mostly been all work and no blog for Jack. ...

There’s No going back now

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As I mentioned in a previous column, Oliver Friggieri’s opus Fjuri li ma Jinxfux has been my Maltese reading “assignment” of the last few months. With uncanny precision I always seem to come to a definitive ....

If I Get a second chance

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

My long-departed nanna used to make sure I remembered deceased relatives every time November came round. As a young boy, death was something too distant to be really present in my life, but I still bowed my head in respect for people ...

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