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Our public healthcare system: soon to treat us as second-class

Friday, 7 April 2017, 08:23 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Vitals Global Healthcare is the private entity taking over the running of three public hospitals. Don't be misled by the 'Global' in the name: they are the first hospitals ever to be run by VGH. And...

What exactly is the problem with teaching Islam to Muslims?

Thursday, 6 April 2017, 11:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Maltese Patriots were out in force, demonstrating outside the Archbishop's Curia a few days ago, because he had had the temerity to say that he thinks Islam should be taught in Maltese...

12 per cent

Thursday, 6 April 2017, 08:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Most interesting was the information provided by Minister Manwel Mallia that the contribution made by internet gaming to the island’s economy has now reached 12 per cent of our Gross Domestic...

Mine is bigger than yours politics

Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 08:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

Or yours is bigger than mine, depending which way you look at it. For the Labour Party, anything that Labour has done is of greater importance than what was achieved by the Nationalist Party,...

News of the week

Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 08:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The sexual act of a couple of youngsters caught on tape has been allegedly hacked and then shared without their consent.  Apart from the fact that this situation even managed to...

Not so equality... after all

Tuesday, 4 April 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 10 years ago Marie Louise Coleiro Preca

70 years ago, women in Malta achieved the right to vote. 70 years ago, Agatha Barbara was elected as the first-ever woman in the Maltese Parliament. 60 years ago, Agatha Barbara became the...

Let’s be bold for change

Tuesday, 4 April 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

Artists worth their salt are capable to turn canvas or any other material into a work of art, even masterpieces, with the strokes of a paintbrush. They give us stunning illustrations.  The...

Green sense is common sense

Monday, 3 April 2017, 09:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

In the last few days, Alternattiva Demokratika –the Green Party – has been campaigning against over-development at both Mosta and Marsaxlokk. It is the renewal of an everlasting campaign,...

Switzerland in the Atlantic

Monday, 3 April 2017, 08:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Finally we’ve arrived at the point when Brexit will have to be negotiated. Discussions will be complex and I’m afraid quite tough. On the side of the Europeans (no matter what they say)...

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