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Of foreigners, religion and integration

Friday, 7 October 2016, 10:58 Last update: about 9 years ago Salvu Mallia

In today’s vlog, Salvu Mallia deals with the presence of so many foreigners in our midst. Taking the recent controversy about the opening of a prayer room for Muslims in St Paul’s...

Muscat’s closet

Friday, 7 October 2016, 10:50 Last update: about 9 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The surveys published last Sunday by MaltaToday show a striking picture. The story has a very simple and clear message – Labour, under the leadership of Joseph Muscat, has managed to lose the...

Thursday Notebook

Thursday, 6 October 2016, 10:02 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

You know the traffic situation is completely out of control when on the same morning (yesterday, as it happens), two Air Malta flights - one to Munich and the other to Amsterdam - are delayed because...

Expenses

Thursday, 6 October 2016, 07:37 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

For the upcoming budget, in between the lines or openly, a big challenge is looming. While it is in the overall interest of the government – as is natural – now to make sure that the...

The political season is open

Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 08:21 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I am sure that many would say the silly season did nothing this time round to quieten the political backbiting and squabbling.  I remember that a couple of years ago political bickering was lost...

Coke and popcorn at the Law Courts

Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 09:25 Last update: about 9 years ago Gejtu Vella

Please take this piece with a pinch of salt and a measure of sarcasm. Through the grapevine I have heard that coffee-shop, bar and restaurant owners in Valletta, whether their place of business...

Mhux ovvja

Monday, 3 October 2016, 10:39 Last update: about 9 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Mhux ovvja li allaħares nagħtu mandat ieħor lil Muscat biex jiggverna. U mhux ovvja li l-Oppożizzjoni jeħtieġ tingħaqad biex tipprovdi gvern alternattiv...

Conflict of interest

Monday, 3 October 2016, 07:55 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

I was one of the first to raise controversies about the need to clear conflicts of interest out of public management. Still we need not go over the top, whether we act in good or bad faith. To...

Traffic, traffic and still more traffic

Monday, 3 October 2016, 07:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

Back to school and, much to our dismay, we have an enormous increase of traffic on our roads. As a consequence, since last Monday, the number of cars on the road using our main thoroughfares in the...

Jobs for the (unfit for purpose) boys

Sunday, 2 October 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Perhaps this makes sense in some kind of alternative universe: newspapers have reported the Prime Minister as saying that he would “consider pulling the plug on negotiations between Alitalia and...

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