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A new low for PBS

Monday, 21 December 2015, 11:26 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

The news that seven TVM journalists have taken Public Broadcasting Services before an industrial tribunal over claims of salary discrimination is a new low for the station that is financed by...

Life is what you make it

Monday, 21 December 2015, 09:26 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

I haven't written to you for a while. That is because I have been too busy preparing people's smiles for the Christmas season, in between bringing smiles to people's faces by whatever contribution...

The cost of terror

Monday, 21 December 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

In Brussels during the past weeks, there was a noticeable decrease in commercial activity. Shops had less customers than I remember is usual when end of the year festivities are approaching. There...

Another day, another ‘Taghna Lkoll’ scandal

Sunday, 20 December 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The word ‘scandal’ doesn’t quite fit, but I am at a loss to work out what else to call the stories that are breaking on a daily basis. Calling them scandals implies that people are...

Angelina’s boobs and dusty Malta

Sunday, 20 December 2015, 10:44 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

It has happened at least twice before, so we should not really be shocked by it. It’s part of the game, so to speak. The first episode took place many years ago, under the PN administration...

Land use planning: beyond rhetoric

Sunday, 20 December 2015, 10:11 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

There is a common thread running through a number of local land-use planning controversies: they are tending to ether ignore or give secondary importance to environmental, social and/or cultural...

The deceptive road to Zonqor

Friday, 18 December 2015, 10:49 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The Prime Minister said a few words at the beginning of the debate on Zonqor and then left for, what to him were more important matters, including sleep. Simon Busuttil, on the other hand, gave...

Labour’s multiple betrayals

Thursday, 17 December 2015, 11:09 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

So, after the American University of Malta turned out to be far from being American, it now turns out that neither will it be a university. We’ll probably soon get to know that it will be a...

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