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Poverty

Monday, 30 May 2016, 07:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

One of the biggest failures in Europe as of now, is in the poverty sector... if “sector”  is the appropriate term to define where the problem lies. Here’s one target set by the...

Malta, Libya and the US: chapter 2

Monday, 30 May 2016, 07:42 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

Minister George Vella should be thanked for having taken the time, through E. St John, to reply to my blog about the current relations between our Government and Libya. I must also thank him for...

That is Muscat’s blog, not Bedingfield’s

Sunday, 29 May 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Glenn Bedingfield, 41, is not a journalist or anybody who makes his living in the media. All his adult life he has been an employee of the Labour Party, except for a brief period when he ran a Birgu...

And now, what?

Sunday, 29 May 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

Three parliamentary votes — all with the same result — would seem to have buried the Panama Papers issue, and in any other circumstance would have found the entire country up in arms...

A chock-full of spite

Sunday, 29 May 2016, 10:20 Last update: about 9 years ago Charles Flores

Some people who run some of the voluntary organisations that go by the hip term of NGOs really can be such downers. I much prefer those characters and those organisations with an optimistic view of...

Heroes

Saturday, 28 May 2016, 08:02 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

In 1807, François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fuelled by hydrogen. In 1886, the first petrol- or gasoline-powered automobile, was invented by...

Palumbo, the Cottonera and lack of decorum

Saturday, 28 May 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Times of Malta (on-line version - 25-5-2016) considered a news item a post uploaded by Dr. Godfrey Farrugia on his Facebook Page aimed at denigrating the Palumbo Shipyard. The Directors of the...

Then there were two more chairs

Friday, 27 May 2016, 08:25 Last update: about 9 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

It has been three years since the last general election and, for the second time, the courts have decided that the PN is right and should be given two more seats in parliament. For me, the case has a...

'Keith Schembri and I', says the Prime Minister

Thursday, 26 May 2016, 10:57 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Prime Minister’s performance yesterday evening in parliament was disgraceful. Adopting a tone that can only be described as bitchy, he tossed spiteful remarks across the playground while...

European Commission on Malta

Thursday, 26 May 2016, 06:35 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

Recommendations made by the European Commission regarding Malta’s economic management are interesting. They relate to how the economic structure we now have generates enough investment or less...

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