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Unsolved mysteries

Saturday, 4 August 2018, 09:42 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

The amount of unsolved mysteries in Malta is piling up quicker than the rubbish outside restaurants.  Case after case of unsolved murders, gone silent because we are not supposed to ask questions...

The debonair minister

Sunday, 22 July 2018, 10:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

It was the morning after the 2008 general election, an election fought on a knife-edge. On TVM, the experts were ad-libbing, since the boxes had not yet been opened. One of the experts, Professor...

The air we breathe

Sunday, 22 July 2018, 09:51 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Officers of the Environment and Resources Authority, interviewed by the local media, emphasised what we have known for ages: the main contributor to air pollution in Malta is transport. St Anne Street...

Time to be level-headed

Saturday, 21 July 2018, 09:03 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

The role of a President in a modern democracy is usually expected to provide a level-headedness at times of conflict or dispute, or of extraordinary complexity.  Where passionate and subjective...

Musings on a hot summer afternoon

Sunday, 8 July 2018, 09:34 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

So the hard-working Honorable Gentlemen and Ladies of the House of Representatives decided to award themselves a summer holiday lasting from 4 July to 1 October. It must be awfully hard work...

Pressures

Monday, 25 June 2018, 07:38 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Criticism is frequently expressed about the performance of regulatory agencies in different fields of activity, from consumer protection to health safeguards at workplaces. Some, in their drive to...

Challenging the status quo

Friday, 22 June 2018, 09:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

When looking back at the past five years, I cannot remember a day when our aim; mine and of course that of the numerous professionals who work within its structures, was not that of challenging the...

European contradictions

Thursday, 21 June 2018, 07:54 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

As more controversies arise over European options, the clearer it becomes that the way forward by which the European Union can become more effective and united is through a recognition that it is a...

When 26.5% of women experience violence

Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 08:04 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Dr Clarissa Sammut Scerri is a warranted Counselling psychologist, a registered Family therapist, and a Systemic supervisor. She is currently the Head of the Department of Family Studies (Faculty for...

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