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Dept per capita

Thursday, 11 March 2021, 13:51 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

This week, the "Irish Times" carried an article about how Ireland now finds itself in a position by which its national debt per capita (covering the population living in the country) has become the...

Transparency: not their forte

Thursday, 11 March 2021, 09:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

As I’ve said many times, the Labour governments under Joseph Muscat and Robert Abela have shown a devotion to continuity. It was promised to us by Abela in the run up to the party leadership...

Can Malta go hungry?

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 09:19 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

This week, Prime Minister Robert Abela declared that agriculture should be a pillar of our economy. He said that his government wants to help farmers to ensure they produce enough food to sustain the...

A war that is not war

Monday, 8 March 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The metaphors of war have been used for quite a while with regard to the coronavirus pandemic. They make sense, though not completely. The mobilisation of communities that is really required if the...

Choose To Challenge

Saturday, 6 March 2021, 08:34 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

March 8th is the day when the world celebrates International Women’s Day.  The theme chosen this year is “Choose to Challenge”.   This theme is very relevant today...

New Year, Blues!

Sunday, 3 January 2021, 10:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

As the New Year begins, we carry forward unfinished business from 2020, with the pandemic in pole position. But one of the most important political happenings of the last days of 2020 was Bernard...

Writing off future generations

Sunday, 3 January 2021, 09:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Our actions today are a first draft in designing the future. They are tomorrow’s blueprint. Our future as well as that of future generations. The ice sheets are melting at a faster rate...

It’s that time again

Sunday, 3 January 2021, 08:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Now that the Christmas and New Year celebrations are over and we are still battling the pandemic, on a completely different level a new game is about to begin. For this is around the time when...

Hopes for an ending

Thursday, 31 December 2020, 09:08 Last update: about 7 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The Covid-19 vaccine has given us hope and we are all looking forward to seeing how this will affect our lives in the early months of 2021. And although the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister...

Ready, aim… fire

Saturday, 18 October 2014, 08:54 Last update: about 13 years ago Rachel Borg

Throughout the legislature of the Nationalist Government, so much negative propaganda was thrown by the opposition (and from its own backbenches) at any legislations, projects, initiatives and...

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