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Prison: starting a process of forgiveness

Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 06:25 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The prison has been under the spotlight in the past weeks.  The moot methods of the Director/CEO/Colonel, the extraordinary number of suicides together with the dubious methods in the management...

Animals in the news

Monday, 14 September 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

In past weeks, different kinds of reports put animals in the limelight. Dogs attacking and killing an old lady. The discovery of other dogs penned under extremely bad conditions in cages. Baby...

Why Bernard Grech?

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 10:52 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

If surveys are anything to go by, Bernard Grech has piqued the interest of the electorate more than the incumbent. Adrian Delia has indeed given a lot to politics and to the country, and I for one am...

We need a Carbon Budget

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 09:51 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Searching for the word “climate” through the 2021 Pre-Budget document published earlier this week entitled Towards a Sustainable Economy one finds the word three times: twice referring to...

Who needs Pravda when we have PBS?

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 08:54 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

In a land with escalating revelations you’d expect a prime minister to wake up, smell the rot and act rationally. Can’t a single Malta Labour Party leader think of country first before...

Swept by a tsunami of spin

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 07:45 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

When historians in future times try to understand and make sense of our times they may, if they’re lucky, see our age as covered and inundated with spin. Spin has become a major item in our...

Locked up

Saturday, 12 September 2020, 07:39 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

This week we have seen the terrible effects that incarceration, not properly administered, can bring.  Utter devastation on human and animal life. In one case, that of the locked up dogs...

The impact of not returning to school

Friday, 11 September 2020, 07:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

Education ministers and policymakers together with Health Authorities and the World Health Organisation made the decision about children returning to school for the coming scholastic year after an...

Tax structures

Thursday, 10 September 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

At the OECD which groups the more developed capitalist economies, they seem to be coming close to a new agreement regarding how tax structures can be harmonised in the different countries. This would...

Red herrings, anyone?

Thursday, 10 September 2020, 06:31 Last update: about 7 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

This summer seems to have stimulated our junior minister for equality, Rosianne Cutajar.  She is taking action on an array of laws.  She is feeding the media with spicy issues intended to...

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