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The ambiguities of life

Sunday, 8 March 2020, 11:06 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

You are a regular person, minding your own business at home, and suddenly your house collapses on you, and you lose your life. In a most unbearably light manner; even an inmate on death row is...

Socks in one’s mouth

Sunday, 8 March 2020, 10:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Charles Flores

Aesop’s ancient fable about the goose that laid the golden eggs has had numerous versions in different languages over the centuries, with subsequent translations sometimes substituting the goose...

The architect-developer

Sunday, 8 March 2020, 10:13 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The death of Miriam Pace buried in the ruins of her collapsed Hamrun home as a direct result of building works in hand in an adjacent property has shocked the nation.  The theatrics of Ian Borg,...

We still allow human sacrifice to greedy gods

Sunday, 8 March 2020, 09:11 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

The giant crane moves slowly, ever so slowly. The wind shakes it but it keeps steady on its concrete platform. The excavator does what it was created to do and bores deep into the ground.  Our...

Facing the horsemen of the Apocalypse

Sunday, 8 March 2020, 09:10 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

It is difficult not to feel sympathy for Robert Abela these days. After a reign of one and a half terms with Joseph Muscat at the helm with a booming economy, an ever increasing number of jobs, a...

Desperation

Saturday, 7 March 2020, 08:55 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

Desperation.  Nothing but frustrating, furious, angry and sad desperation has gripped us all now.  The feeling is a collective one.  Some feel it and keep quiet because they want to...

Migration crises in the making

Friday, 6 March 2020, 13:06 Last update: about 8 years ago Peter Agius

In a message from Brussels, MEP candidate Peter Agius explains that thousands of migrants are presently at the border with Greece and Bulgaria after declarations by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan that...

Strengthening two pillars of our society

Friday, 6 March 2020, 10:37 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

The European Commission’s ‘Country Report Malta 2020’, published on the 26th of February gives a thorough look at Malta’s performance in various sectors, including education...

Gender quotas

Thursday, 5 March 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

That agreement has been reached between the government and the opposition on the measures to be introduced in order to ensure a progressively greater participation of women in political office, was...

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