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...