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Looking forward

Friday, 14 May 2021, 08:09 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

There are three main questions which the Steering Group tasked with the drawing up of the National post-pandemic strategy identified as those that we, as a nation, should collectively answer looking...

Maltese pastime

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 07:51 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

A traditional pastime of ours, still widely practised, revolves around how to manage to bend rules and regulations currently in force in order to obtain what you desire or more generally to have it...

Another Labour victory?

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 07:25 Last update: about 6 years ago Michael Briguglio

In a way, this article replicates the main arguments in my article entitled ‘Is Malta facing a political rupture?’ which appeared in the The Malta Independent on 5 March 2020. Back...

A country where social unfairness still abounds

Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 07:17 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This is a debate we often have at the Faculty for Social wellbeing. It is easy to think that with all the money we put into our social benefits and the social sector, the highly committed NGO...

What about the PN?

Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 07:14 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

Some two years ago, after discussing with the editors of the Malta Independent, I started writing this weekly column as a bridge with several sectors of society affected by ongoing developments. From...

Vaccines on the cheap

Monday, 10 May 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The Biden administration in the US declared that temporarily, it will be disallowing patent rights charges on vaccines that have been developed to combat Covid-19. The pharmaceutical industry was not...

Overdevelopment: Death by asphyxiation

Sunday, 9 May 2021, 10:09 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

The relentless, seemingly unstoppable, senseless uglification of the country is a phenomenon currently on everybody’s mind. Even His Excellency the President of the (entire) Republic woke up...

Nothing is ever secured for free

Sunday, 9 May 2021, 09:11 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The St Vincent de Paul Residence report published last week by the National Audit Office (NAO) is quite long. It can however be described by one sentence: this is what happens when political...

The Common Good

Sunday, 9 May 2021, 08:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Last Monday Partit Nazzjonalista announced that the clusters project, the brainchild of my fellow MP Claudio Grech, is beginning to bear fruit. In a media presentation with the magnificent and iconic...

No storm in a teacup

Sunday, 9 May 2021, 08:10 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

For a party in Opposition supposedly preparing to challenge government in a general election in a few months' time after two successive huge defeats, in the midst of a pandemic and with stories about...

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