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Malta: a double-faced climate change policy

Sunday, 24 May 2020, 10:03 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Estimates for sea-level rise, both globally as well as in Europe, vary depending on the assumptions made as to the rate at which ice at the polar caps and Greenland is melting. The carbon...

Time to take bold decisions?

Sunday, 24 May 2020, 09:04 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

Some major observers of the local political scene are smelling a rat. The hounds are out sniffing for clues. It seems Robert Abela has decided 2020 is the year he can make sure he remains premier....

Crisis decisions

Sunday, 24 May 2020, 08:58 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Few of us would have had reason to visit the hospital especially A&E during these weeks of pandemic. But those who did were in for a surprise. Gone are the crowds by those who seemed to make...

The new negative

Saturday, 23 May 2020, 07:51 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

With much zeal, the new leader of the Nationalist Party Dr Adrian Delia had taken it upon himself to not ever be labeled as negative. He dodged any mention of every corruption scandal, every lie and...

Best decisions in a timely manner

Friday, 22 May 2020, 06:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

Malta established a framework for the preparation of the eventual re-opening of educational and training institutions. This framework, which follows the model proposed by the United Nations, is being...

Obama speech

Thursday, 21 May 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Ex-US President Barack Obama still possesses this huge skill by which in a few minutes, he can present the panorama for a political strategy that carries the thrust of a an adventurous, vibrant and...

Is out of sight, out of mind?

Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 06:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The headlines these last years have been topped by stories about young men (mostly) and women apprehended by the police with a list of crimes fit for mafia crime lords; whether they are accused of...

At the crossroads

Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 07:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

As health care systems across the globe struggle to cope and recover from the first wave of COVID-19, governments are looking for a breather. Measures that are no longer justified and proportional to...

Gozo's economy

Monday, 18 May 2020, 06:36 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

In the detailed and useful discussions  being carried out about the problems that will be arising for the Maltese economy, not enough analysis is being done in my view, concerning how the Gozitan...

Lo and behold

Sunday, 17 May 2020, 10:34 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

Tiny Malta, its migrant centres filled to the brim with rescued migrants, Coronavirus-infected migrants and recovering migrants, makes a much-needed, inevitable move to contain the drama – upon...

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