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The ‘best Cabinet’ in freefall

Monday, 14 March 2016, 10:32 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

Three years ago the “best Cabinet” in the political history of Malta was sworn in. These were the arrogant words of a Prime Minister who was probably too enthusiastic with his emphatic win...

Pushback

Monday, 14 March 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

The agreement – if it can be called that – between the EU and Turkey on the refugee crisis could have been better or worse. If it is not implemented properly, or if the Syrian civil war...

Stick to the Stable, Minister

Sunday, 13 March 2016, 11:01 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I wasn’t able to watch Xarabank on Friday and it seems I missed quite a show which I plan to make up for this morning, catching up with it through TVM’s on-demand menu. But I did watch one...

Got any stain remover, Joe?

Sunday, 13 March 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

This crisis just refuses to go.  We have had corruption cases before: Café Premier, Gaffarena, the American University of Malta all come to mind. They’ve all come and gone. It took...

The Importance of Being Earnest

Saturday, 12 March 2016, 09:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

Wilde did a superior job writing this play with an amusing story line filled with humour and satire. A man who made up a lie to find out that it was not really a fabrication, that it was reality....

George Farrugia and Konrad Mizzi

Friday, 11 March 2016, 13:06 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The electoral campaign of 2013 was dominated by the oil scandal and one of its protagonists was George Farrugia. Going over these events and trying to analyse them through the new information that is...

Cleaning up politics

Friday, 11 March 2016, 12:13 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

On Tuesday, when Beppe Fenech Adami, Konrad Mizzi and Carmel Cacopardo took to the TVM arena, word has it that Labour had a huge dilemma. Nobody thought it would be a clever idea to send Konrad...

The situation is now Kafkaesque

Thursday, 10 March 2016, 11:12 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Konrad Mizzi was on television with Beppe Fenech Adami (and Carmel Cacopardo of AD) and threatened to sue Fenech Adami if he read from a transcript of Simon Busuttil’s speech in parliament....

Tax

Thursday, 10 March 2016, 07:59 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

One finds it strange that "negotiations" are taking place between the government and the tourism sector regarding  the tax on bednights that tourists spend in hotels. There is nothing out of this...

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