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Changing attitudes in travel

Saturday, 2 February 2019, 09:26 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

Before our islands push heavily forward with fancy projects of little authenticity and demand  in the tourism sector, they ought to analyse the reality a bit more closely to see if what they are...

Hefty investment in research needed

Friday, 1 February 2019, 10:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit Dimech refers to the recent data published by Eurostat placing Malta 3rd from last when it comes to investment in research and innovation. He said that this is...

Talent

Friday, 1 February 2019, 09:19 Last update: about 9 years ago Owen Bonnici

In all the years working in the field of culture - both in Government and in Opposition - I met hundreds of artists from all sectors and you quickly realise what culture stands for. And by...

Brexit - between a rock and hard place

Thursday, 31 January 2019, 08:21 Last update: about 9 years ago Marlene Mizzi

Even at the time this piece is being written, the Brexit saga goes on unabated. Within and without the United Kingdom itself, there is a twist or a turn at almost every stage of this on-going story...

Anti-semitism

Thursday, 31 January 2019, 07:41 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

The vile urges of anti-semitism are still with us and it is difficult to prospect their total elimination.  To compound matters, the problem of anti-sionism has become an added overlay –...

X Factor: A story of skulduggery and Bendlu Gamumillu

Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 08:41 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

One of the biggest challenges this country has had to face these last 17 weeks has been resolved.  No, it isn’t the Corinthia land dispute or the Leader of the Opposition’s calamities...

Never underestimate the power of the people

Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 09:45 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

A very question I am asked regularly is whether I think that things improving in Malta when it comes to the environment.  This question is usually asked in a negative one, like if the one asking...

6 MEPs can do a lot for Malta, if they work together

Monday, 28 January 2019, 10:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Peter Agius

In a vlog from the European Parliament in Brussels MEP candidate & former head of European Parliament Office responds to public questions doubting the impact of 6 Maltese MEPs in a chamber of...

Governance

Monday, 28 January 2019, 07:39 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

It is disturbing to note how the discussion about governance in Malta has come to be dominated by outside interventions made by people with opaque and suspicious agendas. For there has been and...

Should Manuel Delia’s ghosts silence him?

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 12:08 Last update: about 9 years ago Victor Calleja

There are many stories which feature ghosts. Whether we believe in them or not,they always seem to have an effect on us. They come back to haunt us and shake us out of our comfort zones. Manuel...

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