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Budgeting for social wellbeing

Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 10:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

An open letter to Government:  The Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta encourages government to consider the widest plethora of initiatives possible to foster the wellbeing of...

Addressing traffic congestion

Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 08:43 Last update: about 9 years ago Gejtu Vella

Agreed, there are various pressing issues on the national agenda – and the daily heavy traffic congestion is one of them. The negative impact as a result of the daily traffic jams should be of...

Marlene il-pinnur

Monday, 10 October 2016, 13:37 Last update: about 9 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Biex niċċaraw l-affarijiet. Bħal lum erbgħa snin kien qed jinħass ir-riħ tal-bidla fil-pajjiż. Aħna l-pinnuri konna qed ngħidulhom x'kellha...

Joe Mizzi’s failures

Monday, 10 October 2016, 10:40 Last update: about 9 years ago Stephen Calleja

Joe Mizzi is not a popular minister these days. And it’s not because he did not find oil. It’s because of a much simpler solution he has failed to come up with since he took over...

Low interest rates

Monday, 10 October 2016, 08:05 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

It has been an unchanging scenario for quite a while and will not change soon: driven by the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme, by which the Bank is buying every month...

Two Anti-Fascists in Malta: their story

Monday, 10 October 2016, 08:04 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

On Friday, 30 September, at the Italian Cultural Institute, PBS presented its historical documentary on two Italian political refugees, Giuseppe Donati and Umberto Calosso. During the Fascist regime,...

Lots of people need reminding that Malta is a free country

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 11:04 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

In a free and democratic country, few things are as obscenely objectionable as the sight and sound of people doing their vociferous and manipulative best to try and prevent others from worshipping in...

Everything falls nicely into place

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 10:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

It must be autumn: there was Xarabank on TV on Friday and there will be Parliament tomorrow. The talk among the Maltese is about how terrible traffic has become. There is the England v Malta game...

Paceville Master Plan: greed or need?

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Land use planning is essentially public control over the use and development of land, so it necessarily follows that it should not be a speculators’ shopping list, implemented by the...

Chaos in the political scenario

Saturday, 8 October 2016, 09:21 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

The current political scenario in Malta is one almighty mess the likes of which have not been seen for decades, if ever at all.  It’s in chaos and out of control. Business is politics,...

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