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Free public transport

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 11:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is right when he emphasises the need to have free public transport. Public transport is much better today than when we were subject to the Arriva fiasco piloted by Austin...

It’s my party, and I’ll do what I want to

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I think it was unfair that the cake was served only to the Cabinet on the day our Prime Minister turned 45. That cake should have been served to the entire Labour parliamentary group to reflect the...

Emm... no way, Mr Imam

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 09:48 Last update: about 9 years ago Charles Flores

Despite the flippant title, this piece is not meant to disparage Imam Mohammed el Sadi, Islam’s representative on the island, but merely to ask him to stop making statements that rub so many of...

We have missed the bus

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 09:05 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

As a country, we have still not woken up to the very real possibility that the UK will crash out of the EU on 29th March and what that may mean for us. Our coverage of the events unfolding in...

Indepth: Musical chairs to blame for fuel station talks - GRTU CEO

Saturday, 26 January 2019, 09:49 Last update: about 9 years ago INDEPTH online

Changes in personnel negotiating with the GRTU resulted in discussions on the ongoing fuel stations issue having to start "from scratch," says its CEO Abigail Mamo on this week's episode of Indepth,...

How much longer?

Saturday, 26 January 2019, 09:47 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

In some future time, looking back on what today seems an everyday normality, there could very well be – or perhaps there already is – a study to be made on how Malta steered itself through...

An eventful week

Friday, 25 January 2019, 07:58 Last update: about 9 years ago Owen Bonnici

This week we announced further reforms in our justice system, whereby the Administrative Review Tribunal has now been enhanced and strengthened with two additional panels – the Gaming Panel and...

Social debate?

Thursday, 24 January 2019, 08:04 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

There was a time, not so long ago, when the EU as an institution, was considered to be at the forefront in promoting the social values of solidarity. Those who viewed it in this light included unions,...

We are racists!

Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 08:23 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I never thought I would come to this conclusion in my lifetime.  I believed the racist comments that are flying around were simply puked by a few Facebook pseudo-warriors. It appears that little...

Health: spend money on services not corruption

Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 15:39 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit Dimech speaks on the Vitals scandal, the company that took over 3 hospitals in Malta and Gozo. He said that one had to ask why a contract was signed with Vitals when the...

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