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An open letter to Hani Salah

Monday, 4 May 2015, 08:42 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Dear Hani Salah, I wish to thank you for selecting my country for your intended substantial investment. Your faith in our government as well as in the hospitality of the Maltese...

The national chain’s weakest link

Sunday, 3 May 2015, 10:42 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

Beyond the normal partisan dialectic, it is useful to get down to the real grass roots of the country and take the temperature. One finds, from experience, that our national democracy is flimsy...

Miss Sai Gone but Mister Konrad No Crai

Sunday, 3 May 2015, 10:41 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

It’s all over social media: Miss Sai Gone. And gone she is, on €13,000 a month and with nothing to show for it. It’s tempting to get stuck on the money and that she’s done no...

We do not live in a post-anything

Sunday, 3 May 2015, 10:38 Last update: about 12 years ago Jenny Pullicino Orlando

Many things have happened in the last few weeks that have roused our political sensibilities; 800 migrants, people, perished in our graveyard sea, bringing this year’s death toll in the...

The costs of air pollution

Sunday, 3 May 2015, 10:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The World Health Organisation (WHO) report published earlier this week entitled Economic cost of the health impact of air pollution in Europe. Clean air, health and wealth is an eye-opener to many who...

Kangaroo Court

Sunday, 3 May 2015, 08:06 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

I made my position long ago known about hunting. I am one who thinks that hunting should be abolished in Malta. However, I cannot fail to empathize with Kirsten Mifsud nicknamed il-Benghazi, for being...

A new era for Valletta

Saturday, 2 May 2015, 11:11 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

This Monday, 4 May 2015, Malta will inaugurate a new and formidable chapter in its legislative history.  The house has been built.   The hall is ready, all modern and functional,...

Joseph and the amazing technicolour dream

Friday, 1 May 2015, 08:03 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

One of the great songs from the rock opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, is called “Joseph Megamix”. Listening to the lyrics can take you on a nostalgia trip to the 2013...

The government regrets its market stall promise

Thursday, 30 April 2015, 07:47 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The saga of the market stalls continues. Except that it doesn’t. They were supposed to be there in and around parliament house already, but they aren’t. At first the government blamed the...

An educational system that throws out the baby with the bathwater

Wednesday, 29 April 2015, 08:10 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Like many other parents I am driving around the island taking my son to his A-Level and Intermediate exams and my daughter to sit for her O-Levels.  This is the time when as a parent I realise...

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