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Why was Alex Borg so offended?

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 08:40 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

Why was Alex Borg so offended by "what I wrote? Because it was the truth. And nothing offends like the truth. (Labour's Trojan horse, The Malta Independent on Sunday, 6 April) If Alex Borg was...

Ground Control to Major Tom

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 08:34 Last update: about 3 years ago Valerie Visanich

Last month, the unexpected nine-month mission for NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore finally came to an end. After an unplanned extension, their initial eight-day mission turned into a...

Easter in Gozo: A Springtime embrace of faith, family, and nature

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 08:30 Last update: about 3 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

It's Easter Sunday, expecting a soft breeze and warm sunlight to spread across the Gozitan hills. Nature shakes off the last of winter's dust, and the island blooms into colour, fragrance, and quiet...

Vision 2050: encouraging greed

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 08:29 Last update: about 3 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The agreement signed earlier this week between INDIS Malta and the Lands Authority as a result of which agricultural land earmarked for the extension of the Bulebel Industrial Estate was "saved from...

Victims of government’s multiple wrongdoings

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 07:32 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Strange as it may seem, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism now appears to be obsessed with decline. Malta's list of complaints seems endless. Real wages are falling. White-collar...

Were you cosy at home during the last national protest?

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 07:27 Last update: about 3 years ago Victor Calleja

Opinions differ but I firmly believe that demonstrations and any form of public protests, especially loud ones in piazzas and streets, do work. Whether a few or multitudes attend, the authorities...

Losing more ground

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 07:25 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

Like many I admit I was shocked last Sunday with the results of the monthly survey on MaltaToday. It showed PN losing more ground and PL regaining the majority. I was then shocked even more when...

Trusting Labour

Saturday, 19 April 2025, 05:57 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

Election surveys are a snapshot of the current situation in which they are taken.  Nothing more, nothing less.   I describe them as a "weather report" and they should be kept in that...

The tourist pillar

Thursday, 17 April 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

The document Vision 2050 for Malta confimrs that tourism will and should remain a pillar of the Maltese economy. It has developed on a scale which not so long ago, was unimaginable, and the aim now is...

Vision

Monday, 14 April 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

It's all very well and good to have a vision about the future of the country and also worthwhile to position it in contrast and by comparison with how other countries are moving to formulate and reach...

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