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St Gregory and other snippets

Friday, 22 April 2022, 09:25 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

The St Gregory procession is steeped in tradition and dates back at least 500 years.  It happens every Wednesday after Easter and, in effect, apart from the religious aspect of it all, serves to...

Destruction

Thursday, 21 April 2022, 06:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

We are now witnessing again... like what we witnessed long years ago during the Vietnam war ... how the destruction that war brings in its wake affects all those who voluntarily or not take part in...

Becoming independent

Tuesday, 19 April 2022, 08:48 Last update: about 5 years ago Evarist Bartolo

One of the difficulties faced by small countries like ours that were governed for centuries by others in their own interests, is to think with our own mind, feel with our own heart and see through our...

Inflation worries

Monday, 18 April 2022, 07:29 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

Worries about inflation will most likely not clear overnight. As of now, that seems to be the case. Still, one can hardly pontificate much regarding how inflation could spread and where it will become...

Staying in power - indefinitely

Sunday, 17 April 2022, 09:44 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

“The Labour Party will be the government and the opposition at the same time,” Randolph Debattista, Labour’s CEO declared.  Debattista was undemocratically co-opted as an MP by...

The financing of the PLPN

Sunday, 17 April 2022, 09:25 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Through a number of articles in the local press we have been repeatedly made aware that government and its authorities do not treat the parliamentary political parties (and their commercial companies)...

Time for reflection

Sunday, 17 April 2022, 08:43 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The period immediately following an election is a very valuable time which only the foolish waste through finger-pointing or squabbling. I will focus today on the personal level. The level of...

Access to culture

Saturday, 16 April 2022, 07:58 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

We believe that every person should be in a position to have access to culture.  As we have made it clear in our 2022 electoral manifesto, culture is a dinamic and vibrant force which generates...

Climate Change 2022

Thursday, 14 April 2022, 12:11 Last update: about 5 years ago Michael Briguglio

The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nation’s body that assesses the science behind climate change. Due to its reports in the past years, the world was sensitized...

Censorship and liberty

Thursday, 14 April 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

No doubt we have almost all become anti-censorship. We say it upfront, for we are all in favour of freedom of expression. But then, when it becomes necessary to do so, we need to show a certain...

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