No Longer born free
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
When I was around nine years old, I found in the bookcase at my grandparents’ country house in San Pawl tat-Targa, then a place of spreading fields and overarching silence, some old books with red covers. ...
Reform Is of the essence
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
Malta’s burgeoning and unsustainable structural deficit and its mountainous public debt have started to focus attention on the way Maltese public affairs have been administered particularly during the last six years or so....
Oliver’s Malta
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
My summer reading this year has been Oliver Friggieri’s autobiography Fjuri li ma jinxfux (Flowers that don’t wither). ...
For Goodness sake!
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
So, finally he has been set free! Or has he? Definitely yes, but not from the responsibility of proving his innocence. This is deserved and merited by all, but mostly by the alleged victim himself, al-Megrahi, and his family, as well as...
J’accuse: Empire Of the Sun
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The clouds descended on the archipelago as the cut-with-a-knife humidity morphed into a stickiness that was pregnant with electric anticipation; meanwhile the millions of servants of Beelzebub set about tormenting the inhabitants in every ...
The Last Sunday of August
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
I woke up with a smile this morning.Although I am writing this article on Tuesday, I chose to use the past tense for the first sentence because I know what is happening on this particular ...
Michel Platini Should come to Malta now
Friday, 28 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
“Rather than being a regular season, this is Maltese football in a shambles”...
Friday Wisdom: Is The recession over?
Friday, 28 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
“So all prognoses is that this recession will be harsh and prolonged and recovery will be gradual and fragile with considerable risks of relapse”...
That Little nun
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
On 26 August of each year falls the birthday of Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta....