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INDEPTH: Astrid Vella claims she did not endorse PL in 2013

Friday, 4 November 2016, 10:06 Last update: about 11 years ago INDEPTH online

Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA) coordinator Astrid Vella said that she did not endorse what the Labour Party was promising in its 2013 general election manifesto with regard to the...

Public transport, traffic could be Labour’s downfall

Friday, 4 November 2016, 09:49 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

Traffic issues and an inefficient public transport could be the Labour government’s downfall, Salvu Mallia argues in his vlog today. Pointing fingers at Transport Minister Joe Mizzi, Mallia...

Oh look, another coincidence

Friday, 4 November 2016, 09:20 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

On 19 May 2015, Konrad Mizzi, as Minister for Energy and Health, issued a press release announcing the preferred bidders for the €200-million investment in our health system. Among the companies...

Crossing each other’s palms with silver

Thursday, 3 November 2016, 10:32 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The newspapers carried a press release yesterday informing us that “Mrs Michelle Muscat, spouse of the Prime Minister, has visited Dubai as guest of HRH Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, spouse of...

Poverty

Thursday, 3 November 2016, 07:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

The people I most admire in our society are those who mobilize against poverty. The cause arouses sympathy but leaves many of us cool, even as we agree about the need to roll poverty...

Up to my nose

Wednesday, 2 November 2016, 08:40 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This is starting to get seriously silly by the day (no, sorry. by the minute)!  Until a couple of years ago Arriva topped the list and it was what we were all focused on. Before that it was...

Succeeding together

Tuesday, 1 November 2016, 11:25 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Busuttil

The budget for 2017 has given us the opportunity to hold to account a government that has now been in office for almost four years and that should not keep treating politics as a game of spin....

Prosperity with a purpose

Tuesday, 1 November 2016, 11:25 Last update: about 11 years ago Joseph Muscat

In 2016, we find ourselves in a period of unprecedented global economic instability: Brexit, low or non-existent growth in much of the eurozone and the rise of extremist parties are all signs of the...

Taking stock of the local socio-economic scenario

Tuesday, 1 November 2016, 09:27 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Today we have got accustomed to a multitude of voices, faces and opinions on every subject under the sun.  This is positive.  What may be the cause of political polarisation and division is...

Il-Partit Demokratiku: imexxi mhux jitmexxa!

Monday, 31 October 2016, 12:26 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Min hu tampari, jifhimni aktar. Aħna ġenerazzjoni li għexna t-taqliba minn ġirja sfrenata wara informazzjoni u tagħrif, u meta ngħid ġirja jiġifieri...

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