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Friday Wisdom: Press Freedom

Friday, 16 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Real democracy depends on a free press. Yesterday’s 30th anniversary of the burning of The Times building marks the true beginning of the end of Dom Mintoff’s pre...

Snail Mail gets a facelift

Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Postal services play a vital role in modern commercial and social life, providing channels of communication between individuals, businesses, organisations and government. ...

The Morality of family medicine

Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

“I remember a most frustrating moment when I practised in a pharmacy where I had a colleague specialist in Geriatrics doing some general practice in the evening to earn some extra money”...

Climate Change: Why health really matters!

Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Many are under the wrong impression that climate change is a purely environmental issue. Wrong....

After The Irish yes

Monday, 12 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

“Today’s challenges are different from those faced by Europe yesterday”...

Pulling One rope… in the same direction

Monday, 12 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

“I am all for rejuvenation and, within the Nationalist Party, have always and will always encourage new elements to take up the same cause”...

Social Security: The need for a national reform

Sunday, 11 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

This is not an easy subject. Social security seems to be a little understood area, where even those whom one expects to know better use words and phrases very loosely. But it is an area demanding reform....

It’s Mintoff Back again

Sunday, 11 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In 1998 – it must have been around June or July – when Dom Mintoff was making those seven-hour speeches in Parliament which left all Malta riveted to their radio sets, I had written a leader ...

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