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Covid Abela and other points

Sunday, 2 August 2020, 10:37 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Robert Abela inherited a government tainted by accusations of corruption that are, little by little, being in large measure confirmed. The Vitals scandal is one clear example; Neville...

Summer nightmares: Covid and migrants

Sunday, 2 August 2020, 08:46 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

The aim of public policy is to create the right environment so that the lives of citizens can carry on with the least hassles possible. That is why we try and construct the roads that provide the...

Higher and higher

Sunday, 2 August 2020, 08:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

If there is one thing most scientists and doctors agree on, it is that smoking truly kills. It causes cancer not just of the body parts usually connected to smoking, like lungs, but anywhere in the...

The big summer

Saturday, 1 August 2020, 07:11 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Summer of 2020 is churning in its grave.  Originally having been thought to be a write-off and consigned to the history books, it has resolutely risen from the ashes, taken the form of a ghost,...

Employment

Friday, 31 July 2020, 07:14 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

This Government’s plan for our economy is on the right track, as I had the occasion to explain when this Tuesday in parliament I was answering Parliamentary Questions and delved into the...

Respecting the rules

Thursday, 30 July 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

The greatest danger for the PN as I see it does not relate to whether they change their current leader or stay with him. Nor is it that they’re likely to lose the coming election and perhaps the...

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 06:43 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

  Last week's spike in new Covid-19 cases was met with increased disputed between citizens, healthcare workers and organisations, and the state. But Prime Minister Robert Abela us still...

Twixt north and south

Monday, 27 July 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

During the last European Council, the contrast... or if you prefer, the distance... between the north and the south of the EU again emerged. Who’s on the north side has a self-image of being...

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