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How to contain

Monday, 17 October 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

How shall we contain the ongoing environmental damage that proceeds around us? By disallowing all construction in all zones which are still in a “natural” state or which are allocated...

Truth will overcome

Sunday, 16 October 2022, 09:53 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

“Government should seek to take appropriate and opportune steps to ensure that the state reconciles with the family of the assassinated journalist in order to start healing the serious and...

Daphne: the five-year wait for justice

Sunday, 16 October 2022, 09:02 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Most of us remember what we were doing five years ago slightly after 3pm on Monday October 16, 2017, when the news flashed that a car had exploded in Bidnija. The possible connection with Daphne was...

Fishing legislation in Malta - A quantum leap forward

Sunday, 16 October 2022, 08:58 Last update: about 5 years ago Alicia Bugeja Said

Time and time again, this government has reiterated the necessity of working hand in hand, directly and indirectly, with all those involved within the Fishing and Aquaculture sectors. The reason...

Time stood still

Sunday, 16 October 2022, 08:03 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

In 1963, people all over the world and especially in the US were asking themselves where were they and what were they doing when President Kennedy was killed. I know where I was and what was I...

Government doing more and more

Friday, 14 October 2022, 09:10 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

Six months plus down the line since the last general election, we are doing more and doing more, more efficiently.  The cultural sector is way past rebooting stage and week in week out we are...

Genuine discussion

Thursday, 13 October 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

One characteristic feature of the small size of our society which few take into account, concerns the possibility to conduct a genuine and open discussionm – one in which people holding diverse...

Wages

Monday, 10 October 2022, 07:55 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

The EU Council of Ministers has at long last reached agreement about a directive that would launch the concept of a national minimum wage in all member countries. Strictly speaking, this is not a...

Environmental judicial policing

Sunday, 9 October 2022, 09:37 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

The impact on the quality of law enforcement by the existence of a court can never be underestimated. It is hard to measure because it has a qualitative nature, not a quantitative...

Devious denial

Sunday, 9 October 2022, 08:38 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

“Have you established who the minister who corrupted Transport Malta officials is?”, Robert Abela was asked.  “There is no minister undergoing legal procedures, or criminally...

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