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Achieving Growth in a rebalanced world

Monday, 26 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Although the financial crisis is winding down, the prospects for growth in the global economy are unlikely to pick up. This is, in part, inevitable. But it is also the result of poor coordination between governments as the world economy rebalances. ...

A Cleaner sea

Monday, 26 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

“As the old saying goes, prevention is better than cure and we can prevent sea pollution”...

Apologists And apologies

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Earlier this week, apologists for Muscat and his pathetic statement “Black Monday should never have happened” had me rooting around for Fenech Adami’s valedictory speech to Parliament,...

The Impotency of power

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

There are some things that, inexplicably, papers do not report. I was listening to Parliamentary Question Time on Wednesday (I tried to get it again yesterday, but the Parliament website would not ...

Reforming And improving our systems

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

If anything, this government will be remembered for the large number of reforms that it has introduced which, ranging from the economic to the social sphere, are meant to improve the citizens’ way of life....

Building Industry needs to be controlled

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

It has taken over five years for the courts to decide that two women died because of negligence and inadequate risk assessment during excavation work on a plot when an adjoining building in St Paul’s Bay collapsed....

Celebrity Culture

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I think people are watching rather too many programmes on the E! Entertainment channel....

J’accuse: This Sorry State

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It may have dragged on for much longer than it was worth, but this whole apology spin has not yet been milked dry by the masters of marketing and campaigners of progress alike. ...

Electoral Disenchantment

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

The pyrotechnics that illuminated Malta’s political skies, following Tonio Fenech’s ill-judged air-trip to Spain, to watch a football match courtesy of a prominent businessman,...

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