Black Monday In history
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
I have noted with interest the ongoing commentaries by politicians, journalists, members of the public and others on Black Monday. ...
Substance, Not shows
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
The Labour Party will do this afternoon what it knows best – hold a demonstration. Why it feels it has to do so escapes me, unless there is a threat to democracy that I have not heard about....
‘It Should never have happened’
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
So said Joseph Muscat with reference to the events that took place on 15 October 1979, when the home and family of Prime Minister Fenech Adami was attacked by a mob...
King Coal’s climate policy
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
The United Nations Climate Change Treaty, signed in 1992, committed the world to “avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.” Yet, since that time, greenhouse-gas emissions have contin...
Transparency, Accountability and justice
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
This week in Parliament we started the process for the Second Reading of the bill proposing amendments to Chapter 88 which regulates the expropriation of land from private owners for pu...
Analysis: Relief About runoff masks problems ahead
Friday, 23 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
“Although Karzai was favoured to win all along, Obama’s advisers thought they could forge a workable partnership that would be the building block for a new war strategy emphasising the security andwelfare of ordinary Afghans”...
We Stand by our values
Friday, 23 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
“Criticism may be a word that can sound destructive”...
I Am old-fashioned: Am I alone?
Friday, 23 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
Two weeks ago, Vodafone, in its wisdom, decided to distribute condoms to university students....
Friday Wisdom: Throwing Stones
Friday, 23 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Gospel, John (8) “However, when they persisted with their question, He raised Himself up and said, Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. ...
A Day for planetary justice
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
What we are doing to our planet, to our children and grandchildren, and to the poor, by our heedless production of greenhouse gases, is one of the great moral wrongs of our age....