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Why Are Valletta’s piazzas dead?

Sunday, 22 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

When one visit’s places in the Mediterranean such as Rome, Naples, Barcelona and even Tunis, one cannot fail to feel the pulse of these vibrant cities and none more so than when...

Responsible Families

Sunday, 22 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

With reference to the ongoing discussion following the Conference on Marriage organised by three Church groups, and also in view of the extremely valid point that our Archbishop...

Unfreezing Credit

Saturday, 21 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Little political enthusiasm exists for further support to the banking sector. One reason is that banks that received money in the initial rescues do not seem to have increased their lending, without which monetary and ...

Don’t Mess about with our capital city

Saturday, 21 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The environmental NGOs and the rest of the country have been trying to knock some sense into the government during the last six months over a number of projects (rightly dubbed by FAA and others as “non-starters”) ...

Better Planning needed

Friday, 20 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

How funny that, one morning in a local newspaper, you read that Sliema Road in Kappara was done up, thanks to somebody’s intervention. Besides the fact that Sliema Road was only done in part – maybe slightly over half of it –...

Friday Wisdom|: Isn’t This a lovely place?

Friday, 20 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Indeed it is! There is no country like it. While the world is economically falling apart, while currencies of East European countries, EU countries like Latvia, Hungary, ...

Confusing Fact and opinion

Thursday, 19 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Once the dust has settled on the St John’s museum fiasco, we’ll be able to see things more clearly. I rather suspect that the first thing that’s going to occur to us – if we have any sense – is that there is a marked and significant ...

A Decade of Hugo Chávez

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

We should have known that something was amiss when, during President Hugo Chávez’s inauguration on 2 February, 1999, he swore on Venezuela’s 40-year-old Constitution by declaring it “moribund.” ...

Labour’s Woes

Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It is now pretty sure that Leo Brincat’s (The PN’s dented green credentials, TMID, 3 February)...

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