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PA attempts to slice through fortification

Tuesday, 17 September 2019, 09:50 Last update: about 8 years ago Tara Cassar

How would you react if a regulatory authority applied to itself to slice through a Grade 1 scheduled historical fortification? This is exactly what the Planning Authority did in April last year....

Towards a confidence budget

Monday, 16 September 2019, 08:24 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

When one re-reads, as I just did, the pre-budget document published not so long ago, one confirms that the confidence being felt in the economy and finances of the country is justified. During...

Paradise Lost

Saturday, 14 September 2019, 09:56 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

Joseph Muscat is lucky that by now there are still enough Maltese people who admire our island and what it represents and hold memories in their mind of a place from where they were able to look ahead...

Nurturing our traditions

Friday, 16 August 2019, 11:30 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

Cultural memorabilia, artefacts and traditions have an important role in society. We keep them to remember the stories, knowledge, skills and methods of our ancestors but also to learn invaluable...

Constitutional changes

Thursday, 27 June 2019, 14:26 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

Consultations seem to be happening in one way or another, about necessary changes that have long been mentioned to be made to the Constitution. Personally, I remain doubtful about how necessary these...

Too little, too late, too foreign

Thursday, 27 June 2019, 13:34 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

Whatever Joseph Muscat and his band of crooks do now is just too late. No amount of trying to patch up will wash the situation clean. The Council of Europe report which was approved by a huge...

Post-Lassana execution: what now?

Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 09:03 Last update: about 8 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

With an information overload we are used to nowadays, it doesn't take long, for a cataclysmic event to be forgotten in a jiffy as new events move up the ladder of our news portals.  Whether this...

A Tale of Two Scheduled Sites

Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 08:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Tara Cassar

Last Thursday the Planning Board refused an application that sought to turn the 19th century Villa Leoni property in St Julians into a multi-storey hotel. The application would have resulted in the...

Record-breaking Heritage Malta

Friday, 7 June 2019, 09:48 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

2018 was another record-breaking yearon all fronts for Heritage Malta. The Agencyregistered a record in the number of visitor and generation of revenue for the sixth year in a row, with a surplus for...

Spinning out of control

Friday, 17 October 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

You have to hand it to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. He is a pro at covering incompetence, creating excuses and spinning his storylines. When the electoral campaign kicked off in January 2013,...

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