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A better tomorrow

Friday, 12 June 2020, 07:27 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

The latest statistics by Eurostat show that Malta had the second biggest increase in jobs after Lithuania between January and last March. Eurostat also stated that jobs – as an average –...

Among those who left

Thursday, 11 June 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

It has been said that as a result of the corona virus pandemic, “thousands” of foreign workers left or will be leaving Malta, mostly because they lost their job. It would be...

The budget in context

Thursday, 11 June 2020, 07:14 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

Last Monday’s budgetary package consisted of measures designed to kickstart the economy.  The government’s €900 million package includes various incentives and forms of...

Loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic

Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 08:07 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

During these last years, the Faculty for Social Wellbeing has continued to validate its ethos by responding in a timely fashion to issues that are happening around us and providing empirical data that...

Why small changes could have a big impact

Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 07:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Tara Cassar

Last Tuesday, the Planning Authority initiated the public consultation process on a proposed amendment to the Development Notification Order [DNO] legislation. Through this proposed amendment,...

How we bought

Monday, 8 June 2020, 06:11 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Data about retail sales in eurozone countries for the months of March and April make for interesting comparisons. During those two months dominated by the corona virus pandemic, as a eurozone average,...

Chronicles of Bobbyland

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 10:48 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I want to discuss briefly some recent goings-on in Bobbyland.  “Bobbyland” comes from an association of ideas. The testimony given by Melvin Theuma in court, in which he said that he...

The assassination: having friends in the right places

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 09:54 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The testimony delivered in Court this week by Melvyn Theuma in the criminal case of Yorgen Fenech, the businessman accused with masterminding the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, is numbing....

Laburist sal-mewt and proud of it

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 09:24 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

No meteor has hit my head and turned me into a Labour Party supporter or apologist. I have always tried to analyse and reach conclusions in the most objective of ways. I am not apolitical and hope...

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