The Malta Independent 26 July 2026, Sunday
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Greening the Constitution

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 09:14 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Within another ten months, the presidency of George Vella will have come to an end. His enthusiasm for a Constitutional Convention, so far, did not lead to any known tangible results. Covid-19...

That’s not nice, Mosta Mayor!

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 08:59 Last update: about 4 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Public works are a necessity, but so is respect for the public.  It is only during a national catastrophe that emergency measures can be justified, and the public subjected to extreme measures....

Serf and Lord

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 08:17 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

Minister Roderick Galdes personally phoned vulnerable citizens to inform them that they were chosen to get a house. In the run-up to a general election the Minister phoned constituents on the waiting...

An unhealthy combination

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 08:15 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

This Labour administration will not, whatever it may think, be remembered for some historical milestone in our country’s history. Nor will it be remembered for its implementation of a...

Immigration

Thursday, 1 June 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

The immigration problem has persisted and will not go away soon. It gives rise to concern across three fronts. In first place, there exists the fear that “too many” immigrants are...

Pension reform: Of twists, turns, stops and … continuity

Thursday, 1 June 2023, 07:50 Last update: about 4 years ago David Spiteri Gingell

The pension system reforms presented in 2004 by my colleagues and I were multi-faceted. They were designed across multiple axes: (a) parametric changes to the system architecture; (b) mandatory...

The Xebbajtuna Protest

Thursday, 1 June 2023, 07:33 Last update: about 4 years ago Michael Briguglio

Last Saturday’s ‘Xebbajtuna’ protest, organised by 8 Environmental NGOs and supported by around 80 organisations across civil society, was characterised by a large crowd, a Moviment...

Traffic deaths

Monday, 29 May 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

I am much afraid that what has always been occurring will go on. For a while, there persists a furore about how serious traffic accidents have been multiplying. Protests are launched. Statements are...

Rewriting George Orwell’s Animal Farm the Maltese way

Sunday, 28 May 2023, 08:31 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

  No, this piece is not a book review of George Orwell’s famous satirical allegorical novel Animal Farm, published after the Second World War in 1945. I am presuming that the reader is...

Bureaucracy and Stivalaland

Sunday, 28 May 2023, 08:30 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Month in month out we are inundated with the latest statistics on property contracts or “promise of sale” agreements. Recently we have had some blips with statistics indicating that...

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