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Bad weather

Monday, 2 May 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

How prepared is the Maltese economy for the bad weather that could arise? It is a question that should often be made, without this being taken to necessarily signal that we are descending towards...

Message control

Sunday, 1 May 2022, 10:16 Last update: about 6 years ago Kevin Cassar

“This victory is one to remember, we had the biggest range of opponents to overpower - the opposition at home, the bureaucrats in Brussels, the international media and even the Ukrainian...

Chernobyl revisited

Sunday, 1 May 2022, 09:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Chernobyl in Ukraine on 26 April 1986, 36 years ago, was the site of a major nuclear disaster. All that came to mind once more when the Russian and Byelorussian forces invaded Ukrainian territory over...

Two men: same problem

Sunday, 1 May 2022, 08:14 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Speaking last Sunday Bernard Grech announced that PN has debts amounting to €32 million. And Malta’s total public debt stood at €8.2 billion as at last November, up €3...

01.05.22

Friday, 29 April 2022, 07:25 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

The 1st of May celebrations are not just ordinary celebrations.  They bring together all those who, everyday, go to work independently of the employment they are in.  In the past it was an...

Up and up

Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The latest data released this week by the statistics office about price rises confirmed that the momentum by which they are happening has been sustained. In close to seven months, inflation has...

Transport, climate neutrality and everyday mobility

Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Michael Briguglio

In an article in the Malta Today earlier this week, Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli wrote about the ‘crucial role’ that electric vehicles (EVs) will play in...

When interest rates rise

Monday, 25 April 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Measures to allow an increase of interest rates on loans and deposits appear to be inevitable, even from the side of the European Central Bank.  In past years, we had become used to interest...

No court? Let’s party

Sunday, 24 April 2022, 10:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Mary Muscat

In 2017 the Labour electoral manifesto promised to set up a court that specialised in environmental matters as part of a structure that combined the fight for climate change with strengthened...

The heart of darkness

Sunday, 24 April 2022, 09:55 Last update: about 6 years ago Kevin Cassar

“The horror, the horror” were the last words he uttered. Kurtz, the main character in Joseph Conrad’s novel the Heart of Darkness, travelled deep into Africa to source ivory but was...

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