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The Right-Hand Man

Sunday, 20 December 2020, 10:47 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

The country is obviously not functioning properly. In the sense that in a normal country, a political earthquake of the same magnitude as that of the 2016 Panama Papers scandal would have rocked the...

Some reflections on the Mafia State

Sunday, 20 December 2020, 10:09 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Reading through the terms of reference for the public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, it is amply clear to all as to what the inquiry should be aiming at. The...

Covid Christmas 2020

Sunday, 20 December 2020, 07:49 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

I was not born in 1941 but I believe that only Christmas 1941 is comparable to Christmas 2020 for the bleakness it offers. Then, as now, the future offered no optimistic vision for the future,...

Person of the Year

Saturday, 19 December 2020, 07:51 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Since I am the timpana designated cook for our Christmas lunch, I thought I would refresh the recipe in my mind and searched Anne and Helen Caruana Galizia’s cookery book online which is my...

Vocational research

Friday, 18 December 2020, 07:33 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

This week I had the opportunity to visit MCAST in order to open and launch the first Research and Innovation Expo organised by the College. The Malta College for Arts, Science and...

Christmas festivities

Thursday, 17 December 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

It is no consolation at all to know that others are in a worse situation than the one you’re in. One can go no farther than this point when comparing how people in some European countries, even...

My 20 favourite persons of 2020

Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 07:20 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The following are 20 people who rank amongst those I feel have left a momentous impact on our communities (and on me) or else have contributed to a better understanding of the society we live in. They...

Pay nurses less

Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 07:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

The title is outrageous but descriptive of what is happening right now in our hospitals. Hundreds of nurses in public health are taking home from €2,000 to €5,000 less per year when compared...

Were we lucky?

Monday, 14 December 2020, 22:01 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Perhaps it would be better if I cancel what follows... For when one takes pains to note how matters have been going well up to the present, they could in short order go into the reverse! The fact...

Political correctness: a trifle too far?

Sunday, 13 December 2020, 10:38 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

I am sure I am not the only one thinking this business of political correctness in everything we say, we do, we write, we watch, we see, has gone a trifle too far. We have had to rephrase chunks of...

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