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Towards the budget

Thursday, 1 October 2020, 07:47 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

One understands how a government finds itself under great pressure to demonstrate that the conduct of affairs is proceeding without too many problems. However when the problems being faced cannot be...

Flu narratives

Thursday, 1 October 2020, 07:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

As if we needed more uncertainty in the managing of Covid-related risks, we are now witnessing competing narratives on the influenza vaccine. In Malta, public health authorities are currently...

When all your life fits into one garbage bag!

Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 08:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

We sat in a coffee shop facing each other. I wanted to listen to his story. After ordering our Cappuccino and Espresso, I rested with my back against the velvet cushion and just listened to him...

Less pesticides, more nature, better food

Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 08:05 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

The way we grow our food has a direct impact on our health and on the environment. A2014 study grouping 30 years of research finds that fields dedicated to organic farming present 50% more...

Pact

Monday, 28 September 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

The Pact on Migration and Asylum published last week by the European Commission has a lot to chew on, not least by way of the almost five hundred pages of documents that have been issued. Obviously...

We like Bernard

Sunday, 27 September 2020, 10:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I’ve written it repeatedly; the polls confirm it. More and more people like Bernard Grech.  In the meantime, Chris Fearne polls higher than Robert Abela. And yet, I think Adrian Delia...

When caves collapse: people may be killed

Sunday, 27 September 2020, 10:26 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

On the 14 September the Planning Authority approved application PA3487/19 which proposed the   “stabilization of dangerous rock slope; repair to deteriorated concrete wall and...

Can full justice ever be achieved?

Sunday, 27 September 2020, 09:11 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

Justice, revenge, comeuppance. A feeling of total gratitude that patience is, after all, a glorious virtue which earns its reward. This is our life right now as it unfolds in its macabre, horrifying,...

A perfect storm

Sunday, 27 September 2020, 08:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

All it lacks is the metrological dimension and, since I am writing this on Friday early afternoon, there are predictions of a storm from now to Sunday but nothing more than that so far. Otherwise...

Indoctrination and submission

Saturday, 26 September 2020, 07:42 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

In all that is happening around us in our daily life, whether it is do with the care of the elderly in the COVID19 pandemic, the safety of our children who return to their desks at school, of their...

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