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The war on nature is suicidal

Sunday, 11 December 2022, 08:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

If we are to register any significant progress in addressing our quality of life we must once and for all end the war on nature. This has been emphasised by Inger Anderson, the Executive Director of...

Life is cheap in hell on earth

Sunday, 11 December 2022, 07:10 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

We have been having an almighty, confused, almost incomprehensible, debate on abortion, accompanying the debate in the House. People have been having their say. And then some. There have been...

Decisions

Friday, 9 December 2022, 08:31 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

Claire is a young woman and mother who suffers from many health conditions, including pulmonary atresia and pulmonary hypertension, so much so that she had one of her lungs removed in...

Construction

Thursday, 8 December 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

I found it strange while reading the initial media reports about the great tragedy which occurred at Kordin industiral estate that so little was said about the works that were proceeding to build a...

Tourism flourishes

Monday, 5 December 2022, 07:57 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

It’s not been happening just in Malta. Everywhere travel has continued to develop and flourish, despite the anxieties still being triggered by the high inflation and the Ukraine war....

When the exception becomes the rule

Sunday, 4 December 2022, 09:54 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Aquilina

I have already had the occasion to write in this newspaper on government’s proposed amendment to the Criminal Code to legalise abortion by stealth. In this piece, I examine briefly...

The justice gap

Sunday, 4 December 2022, 09:04 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

The social sciences call the institutional failure of supporting victim-survivors as the ‘justice gap’. It overlaps with the attrition rate, which is the number of reported cases dropped...

Supporting Bill 28

Sunday, 4 December 2022, 09:01 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The amendment to the Criminal Code forming part of Bill 28 which Parliament started discussing on Monday 28 November codifies the existing practice at the state hospital. It defines the necessary...

President Vella should not resign

Sunday, 4 December 2022, 09:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

News outlets have reported that apparently President Vella is “considering the option to resign if the amendment is approved as proposed by the government. He is mainly concerned that the change...

Audacious deception

Sunday, 4 December 2022, 08:55 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

The first self-made Silicon Valley female billionaire has just been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Her company, Theranos, previously valued at 10 billion dollars is now worth nothing. Billions of...

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