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Social media

Thursday, 22 April 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

I still have not found anywhere a study the covers comprehensively how the social media are impacting on the quality of life of us all. Those who remember how life was before the emergence of...

Be the change

Thursday, 22 April 2021, 07:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Malta has been under siege by political events for most of the past eight years. What was sold as the best time for our country in the run up for the 2013 general election, a dream, has become a...

NGOs cannot afford another thumping

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 08:08 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Our NGOs have been on the receiving end of another thumping, the latest one being legal notices that went through the parliamentary system and passed right under the nose of every Government and...

Cost of insularity and the future of Malta in Europe

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 07:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

Europe needs to reconnect with citizens and listen better to their needs and aspirations. All the European politicians I have met over the past years, from Tajani to Juncker to many others in...

Digital protection

Monday, 19 April 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The chairman of the American Central Bank – or better the Federal Reserve Board – made a statement during a televised interview that really surprised me. He confessed that the greatest...

A cremated idea?

Sunday, 18 April 2021, 10:07 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

I first wrote in The Malta Independent at its inception, way back in the early 1990s, when I raised the case for cremation, until then a pretty hush-hushed issue within Maltese society because of some...

Fishy business

Sunday, 18 April 2021, 09:03 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

As the leader of a political party, I am considered as a politically exposed person (PEP) in line with the provisions of EU 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive as transposed into Maltese law. Even...

The rich getting richer, and the poorer?

Sunday, 18 April 2021, 07:59 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

There is now incontrovertible proof that the years the Labour Party has been in office did not really benefit the social class a socialist government should be defending and promoting – the...

Waiting for sense

Saturday, 17 April 2021, 07:27 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

We might have thought that it is common sense to want to get free of a corrupt and scandal-ridden government. Or that we will definitely not push aside the truth about how the country became a cog in...

Taking our country to the next level

Friday, 16 April 2021, 07:43 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

We strongly believe that talent, research and innovation are key drivers to take Malta’s economy and industry to the next level.  Keeping on doing the same things, in the same way, is...

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