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A prime example

Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

It had to be Europe's famously "100 per cent Catholic" duo of nations to serve as a prime example to the rest of Europe where issues of sexual orientation and minority rights are concerned. Of course,...

Corruption claims used as WMD

Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

Those who can take a step back, as well as those who have been around some time and so have become used to the scene, can possibly see it, while those who take things at face value may not. It is...

It’s not about the environment. It’s about corruption.

Sunday, 7 June 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The fact that the government intends to give a Jordanian real-estate speculator a large amount of protected coastal land from which it will evict farmers for the purpose is the most shocking aspect of...

Unravelling the University of Sadeen

Saturday, 6 June 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

We should begin by calling it by its appropriate name and that is the University of Sadeen.  Not the De Paul University as it was first introduced to us, or the American University of Malta which...

They know no shame

Friday, 5 June 2015, 14:46 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

I had never visited the picturesque Zonqor Point until last Sunday. The opportunity helped me to understand better why many people who have the privilege of living in the area would never accept to...

What is missing in the debate about Mater Dei?

Friday, 5 June 2015, 08:37 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

These days, the Labour Government is being overtaken by the too many tales of corruption or bad practices that are surfacing in the media. Even the story of corruption at Mater Dei is backfiring, as...

Remembrance of things past

Thursday, 4 June 2015, 09:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

Reports about what took place in the first half of the nineties when the hospital now called Mater Dei started being built, feel like a throwback similar to the situation described by Marcel Proust in...

You're either with us, or against us, it’s that simple!

Wednesday, 3 June 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

‘Politics’ here in Malta and Gozo is the closest we can get to a ‘collective craving’, a phenomenon that the citizens on these Islands seem to savour and cannot live...

The calm before the storm

Wednesday, 3 June 2015, 08:14 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Calm before the Storm is the title of an interesting photographic exhibition opened last Friday in the Foyer of the Headquarters of APS Bank at Swatar. The exhibition brings together a collection...

Dr Konrad Mizzi loses his cool in the House

Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 15:10 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

Dr Konrad Mizzi, Minister for Energy and Health, during question time last Wednesday impulsively levelled a scathing attack,hurling insults, at Dr Simon Busuttil, Leader of the Opposition in...

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