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Labour costs

Monday, 22 June 2015, 06:39 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

It’s news to make one feel good. According to the European statistical office Eurostat, the income of employees in Malta and Gozo has recently been increasing at a higher rate than the European...

We can’t all be bought, threatened or cowed into submission

Sunday, 21 June 2015, 18:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Yesterday’s demonstration was the first clear message to the Labour government that we can’t all be bought, threatened or cowed into submission. As pro-environment demonstrations go, this...

The counter-tsunami

Sunday, 21 June 2015, 13:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

Sooner or later, it had to happen. The continued, unabated, influx of asylum-seekers from the disturbed regions of the world, across porous frontiers and a treacherous Mediterranean, has now...

The Freeport’s neighbours at Birżebbuġa

Sunday, 21 June 2015, 13:58 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Two incidents occurred at the Freeport Terminal last week. The first led to the spill of an oily-like chemical when a container was accidentally hit and part of its contents spilled out into the sea....

Mandarin for finger

Sunday, 21 June 2015, 09:56 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

I predicted on national radio last Sunday that Opposition leader Simon Busuttil’s forthcoming visit to the People’s Republic of China will be one of the major issues up for discussion by...

Public scrutiny

Saturday, 20 June 2015, 13:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

It would appear that the parliamentary sessions have reached an impasse.  Each attempt at public scrutiny is met with defence mechanisms that are bordering on contempt.   The atmosphere...

Studying history at the University of Malta

Saturday, 20 June 2015, 08:43 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

History is not a usual topic of controversy but the material generated through historical research can sometimes stir up debate. It falls within the branch of the so-called Humanities;a word that has...

Now you see them, now you don’t

Friday, 19 June 2015, 12:11 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

When Stephen Sondheim wrote his classic “Send in the Clowns” back in 1973 he surely had no idea it would be so appropriate for Malta in 2015. The song is a very sad reflection on the...

Joseph’s all-you-can-eat buffet

Thursday, 18 June 2015, 09:55 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

When Joseph Muscat was leader of the Opposition, he wound people up and stirred the pot of public dissatisfaction by making out that there was some kind of clique – and more to the point, an...

Interest

Thursday, 18 June 2015, 08:58 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

We're at a time when interest rates on borrowed funds were never so low. True, recently there have been some weak upward pressures on rates. But when did it ever happen that some borrowings are being...

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