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The Opposition: vigilant or vigilante?

Sunday, 24 April 2022, 09:20 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

While licking its wounds and finding its bearings, the Opposition cannot stop being vigilant. One thing every decent citizen of this country expects from the Opposition is to step up its...

Urban open spaces and climate change

Sunday, 24 April 2022, 08:52 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

After a free-for-all building spree during which the development of multiple private gardens in our towns and villages were targeted, mostly successfully, our towns and villages have been promised...

They’re coming for Bernard

Sunday, 24 April 2022, 07:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The drums roll and the tumbrils are already out. It’s four weeks (already) since the election and the knives are out for the defeated leader. So far, par for the course. Lawrence Gonzi and...

St Gregory and other snippets

Friday, 22 April 2022, 09:25 Last update: about 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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...

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