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A democratic society

Friday, 19 October 2018, 08:10 Last update: about 9 years ago Owen Bonnici

It more than appropriate that on the one-year anniversary of the horrific murder of blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, our thoughts are with her family and friends, who are no doubt still grieving over...

Value added

Thursday, 18 October 2018, 07:51 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

We really need to promote economic activity that does leave strong added value in the Maltese economy. As of the end of the 1980’s and during the 1990’s, the Fenech Adami administrations...

With Brexit, Malta will need new allies

Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 13:26 Last update: about 9 years ago Peter Agius

One of five jobs in the manufacturing sector are at risk with Brexit, Peter Agius said, while the financial services sector in the UK will also suffer The Nationalist Party candidate for the...

Jerome: he planned his life after death

Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 07:36 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I’m not too fond of funerals and memorials, not that I believe many people are.  But at times, ‘you got to do what you got to do’.   In fact, that is what I did last...

Daphne's assassination: a year deprived of information

Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 11:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

On the first anniversary of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia MEP Zammit Dimech speaks about freedom of expression and how her elimination meant that people were being deprived of...

Is the environment given enough priority?

Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 08:33 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

At the moment many agendas of the world leaders and also within EU, are set to discuss climate change and pollution. The subject of environment is indeed climbing the priority ladder but the question...

Governance and economic growth

Monday, 15 October 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

Like the rest of Europe, for multiple years Malta needed to focus on how to contain the consequences of the 2008 recession and its aftermath. Since we had prematurely joined the eurozone, the fear...

Teachers and the exhaustive educational reforms

Monday, 15 October 2018, 07:42 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

I was and still fully support the MUT’s strike action regarding the proposed Education Law. Having said that, I am also pleased that the strike was called off and a solution found. In truth, a...

Not just the anniversary of Daphne’s death

Sunday, 14 October 2018, 10:17 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

I am beginning to despair of my own sector, the media. I listened to Parliament's rowdy sitting on Tuesday and such was the noise that I, and those listening with me, could not make head or tail...

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