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MUZIKA MUZIKA: what a success!

Friday, 31 March 2023, 16:02 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

The third edition of Mużika Mużika has come to a close, with SABIĦA, performed by Gianluca Bezzina, composed by Philip Vella, and written by Joe Julian Farrugia, being declared as the...

National loyalties

Thursday, 30 March 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

In the normal run of how European affairs get sorted out, one  can listen to lots of beuatiful delarations being made about European values and the importance of a European vision that keeps...

Role for a senate?

Monday, 27 March 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

Malta is one of the few countries with a unicameral Parliament. We have no Senate or an institution which could function as such. It was not always like so. At times when the Parliament’s...

The forgotten El Hiblu 1 case

Sunday, 26 March 2023, 08:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Aquilina

Two days from today, on 28 March 2023, four years would have elapsed since three teenagers were arrested in Malta for alleged terrorist charges in relation to an incident that took place during March...

Greenwashing

Sunday, 26 March 2023, 08:52 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

The Santa Lucija judgement, delivered on 15 March, did not just overturn a badly concluded and short-sighted EPRT decision. It gave the power back to ignored residents and interested third parties...

The unsung heroes at the NAO

Sunday, 26 March 2023, 08:48 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

Never have so many owed so much to so few. Against all odds, the diligent quiet officials at the National Audit Office (NAO) worked tirelessly, overcoming Labour’s obstruction, stonewalling and...

Parallels never converge: Muscat and Metsola

Sunday, 26 March 2023, 08:45 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It came as no surprise that Keith Schembri was directly involved in the Vitals/Steward messy concession, “probably the messiest situation [Steward president Armin Ernst] s[aw] in [his]...

The coast and coastal areas belong to all of us

Sunday, 26 March 2023, 08:44 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The recent publication of the EIA for what is commonly referred to as the Villa Rosa project at St George’s Bay St Julian’s brings us back to the dB Pembroke project debate as well as the...

Rosianne and Stormy Daniels

Sunday, 26 March 2023, 08:37 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

On one and the same day this week, two massive caches of conversations were released to the public. In one the adult film star (what we could call porn star) Stormy Daniels sent a judge the...

Determination

Friday, 24 March 2023, 08:37 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

We promised to re-launch the cultural sector with enthusiasm after the pandemic, and we certainly kept our word. Exactly 12 months ago we promised to firmly restart the culture sector and we did...

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