The Malta Independent 7 November 2026, Saturday
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Averting pensionocalypse

Thursday, 25 May 2023, 07:40 Last update: about 4 years ago David Spiteri Gingell

Malta's pension system was introduced in 1979 following a major reform of the social security landscape. Our system depends on demographics, an optimised labour market (retirees, females, migrants,...

Keep trying

Monday, 22 May 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

My interest in the Eurovision Song Festival is minimal. But naturally, others like it and hugely – as an audience, and from the perspective of artists in the musical, dance and performance...

A Lilliputian criminal procedure reform

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 08:52 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

By means of a consultation document entitled Riforma fis-Sistema tal-Kumpilazzjonijiet u Rinviji (Reform of the compilation of evidence and referral procedures), the ministry responsible for justice...

Special needs parenting

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 08:39 Last update: about 4 years ago Mary Muscat

Special needs parenting is often misunderstood and misrepresented. Because of its lack of visibility, it renders one isolated and weary.  Speaking from experience, advocating for related issues...

In-Nigret: more agricultural land to be bulldozed

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 08:35 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The local plans are seven in number. They are supplemented by a land use planning rationalisation exercise. This consists of the identification of land outside the development zone (ODZ),...

Abela’s destruction of language

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 07:51 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

“If there is a political force that can bring about change it is the Labour party in government,” Robert Abela declared. Abela was being ‘interviewed’ by ONE journalist Samuel...

Degeneration under Labour

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 07:40 Last update: about 4 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It doesn’t seem that the general public is angry – or if there is anger, it’s still inward; people are seething and not really expressing it. It seems to me that the Maltese are sick...

The cumulative impact

Sunday, 21 May 2023, 06:49 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

Make no mistake. There is in politics something called the cumulative impact. For some time people could downplay the impact of what is happening around them but then the cumulative impact kicks in...

The beauty of restoration

Friday, 19 May 2023, 09:11 Last update: about 4 years ago Owen Bonnici

The Restoration Directorate has been actively engaged in the field of restoration of our country's architectural heritage over the past year. Through a wide range of restoration and rehabilitation...

Post Brexit

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Since leaving the EU, the UK has remained in a state of flux. Meanwhile, the disaster that some Europeans were evisaging would follow on Brexit did not happen and likewise the revival that some in the...

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