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The Sweeney

Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 07:50 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

“The Sweeney” was a captivating British television series that presented police drama without the sickening, non-stop, detailed autopsy scenes of today’s American TV fodder. It was...

The Gozo cable

Monday, 15 January 2018, 08:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The government is doing very well in launching this year the new “cable” project for a better internet connectivity in Gozo. It has been in the pipeline for a long while, too long. Now...

The lower part of Valletta

Monday, 15 January 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

With a certain sense of priority, on Sunday, 7th January, The Malta Independent reported an interview given by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to One Radio. It was stated that this was the Prime...

The rising tide

Sunday, 14 January 2018, 10:58 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

There can be no doubt that John Sweeney’s ‘Artful Dodger’ jibe at Prime Minister Muscat was an intentional insult on prime time on ‘the world’s favourite station’,...

Thank-you, Ryan; thank-you, Clayton

Sunday, 14 January 2018, 10:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

I was present for both public sessions of the Planning Authority Board’s meetings to discuss the planning application for a petrol station on Salini Road, Magħtab. The first meeting,...

Resolutions

Friday, 12 January 2018, 08:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Alex Muscat

The beginning of January is normally the time to start making resolutions for the year ahead. We look back at what we think could have been done better during the previous year, and...

Nature abhors a vacuum

Friday, 12 January 2018, 08:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Owen Bonnici

This is a law of science true as any other law, like Newton’s laws of motion, which we are so accustomed to. Nature, scientists tell us, contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding...

AUM benefiting from the ‘So What Attitude’

Thursday, 11 January 2018, 08:35 Last update: about 10 years ago Therese Comodini Cachia

The project bid considered by NCFHE for the issue of the license to run a University made it clear that it was a Foundation and not Sadeen Education Investments Limited who was responsible for the...

NGO?

Thursday, 11 January 2018, 07:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

I’ve already raised the question before, but it bears repeating. How should the Catholic Church in today’s Malta be considered? As a leading institution in the island? Or as a...

The morning after

Saturday, 11 October 2014, 08:30 Last update: about 13 years ago Rachel Borg

Last weekend saw a great big storm roll in and kick up a fury on Malta and Gozo.  Earlier it had been sunny and warm with relatively clear skies.  But within a few minutes all got dark and...

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