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British Service pensioners

Monday, 23 January 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

We need to again highlight their situation. Many of the UK services pensioners who in the seventies decade of the previous century lost their job, have left us since. But a number are still with...

Europe is for Muscat and Trump for the PN

Monday, 23 January 2017, 07:43 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

I must confess. I rely on news portals for information, preferring to read rather than listen or watch the news. Listening is a passive exercise while reading has the added advantage that one can...

Notes about nasty men

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I couldn’t watch Donald Trump being sworn in, and it wasn’t because of his politics and his lousy personality (though that, too). It was seeing him juxtaposed with his wife Melania that...

The Presidency will not remove the sense of unease

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 10:47 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

Now that we have been through the first week of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU, the ersatz hype has already worn off. We had the Juncker, Tusk, Commission visit but that is...

The rental markets

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The liberalisation of the rental market over the years has not achieved its objective. Those who own property are still reluctant to rent out to Maltese tenants and the rental market is, albeit...

It’s your party

Saturday, 21 January 2017, 09:38 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

The weeks morph into months, cold and wintery as we have not had for some years now and the months into years.   Time is rolling by and we continue struggling to keep a cool head whilst the...

Vitals Global Healthcare and its millions

Friday, 20 January 2017, 08:26 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Vitals Global Healthcare is the privileged company running three of our hospitals. Its website declares that this company is here to offer “innovative healthcare made personal.” The...

Fight the good fight

Thursday, 19 January 2017, 10:56 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

A few days ago, I wrote on my website that any Nationalist MP who isn’t prepared to get behind the party leader and fight hard, visibly and audibly, to win the general election is betraying the...

Energy from Malta

Thursday, 19 January 2017, 07:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Projects designed to create deliverable energy from the sun of the Saharan desert seem to be gaining momentum. Technologies in this area have developed sufficiently to make such delivery possible and...

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