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The crusade for change in the face of partisan ignorance

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

I knew this would happen; I knew that the public outpouring of grief and calls for change would have an expiry date for some of the less genuine members of the population. It seems that some people...

Daphne’s life-long quest is still very much alive

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 10:31 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Maybe I am one who needs all the dots joining together. Until last Sunday, I thought that the grief and outrage at Daphne Caruana Galizia’s gruesome murder was, should have been, the...

Bloodshed in Bidnija

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 09:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Daphne is dead, brutally murdered in a hamlet few people outside Malta had ever heard of before. The initial shock left us dumbstruck. Before we had gathered our thoughts, the PN had returned to its...

Danger in Paradise

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 10:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Our islands have often been called a little paradise or a jewel in the Mediterranean.  On tourist brochures, postcards, documentaries, historical accounts and even amongst us, its own...

Setting the record straight

Friday, 27 October 2017, 10:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Alex Muscat

Daphne Caruana Galizia was one of the most controversial women in Maltese history. She was neither a saint nor a villain. In one article she could do investigative journalism like no other, in the...

Waste disposal

Thursday, 26 October 2017, 07:19 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

I found a document that dates from some seventeen years back published by the Malta government of the time regarding the problem of waste disposal and how to deal with it. The analysis of the problem...

Stand up and be counted

Wednesday, 25 October 2017, 07:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

In the wake of the heinous car bombing that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, my Office within the Faculty issued a ‘statement’ following the execution of Daphne Caruana Galiziia, a...

Crocodile tears and the assassination of Daphne

Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 15:35 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Countless articles and opinions have been written about Daphne’s assassination last Monday, when the car she was driving was blown to smithereens. Many theories have been woven as to the...

Don’t cry for me, Malta

Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 08:04 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

It has never happened to me before. I have been writing regular newspaper columns since 1976 and it has always felt like the most natural thing to do. Words fly out of me, and the subject matter often...

Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.

Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 07:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally assassinated, but freedom of speech is not on its deathbed.  Last Sunday in Valletta, the people have demonstrated that they are prepared to fight tooth and...

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