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Victims of crime treated as perpetrators

Thursday, 2 July 2015, 10:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I see from yesterday’s news reports that we are back to the days when victims of crime are treated by the police as perpetrators while the culprits suddenly become the victims and get away with...

Police arrogance continues! Police incompetence prevails!

Thursday, 2 July 2015, 08:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

What happened at the bus terminus does not augur well for us as Maltese citizens and puts us all to shame.  If what has been reported in The Malta Independent is true, then as a State we...

The smaller states in the eurozone

Thursday, 2 July 2015, 07:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The argument needs to be made, repeated and won. As a territory having a common currency of its own, within a single continental market, it is natural that ideas will germinate within the euro...

Led by a gentleman

Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 14:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

‘Disability’ has always been close to home.  I was fourteen years old or possibly younger when I started cultivating this passion.  It all began when Fr Paul Chetcuti, a...

Cease and desist

Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 13:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

The silly season is round the corner. Many will break away,at least for a while, and enjoy the lethargies of the long hot summer days and beautiful nights.  This does not apply to a government...

Crisis in north Africa

Monday, 29 June 2015, 07:06 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

European powers demolished Libya by blasting Ghaddafi out of the picture without knowing what would happen afterwards or perhaps even caring to know. Egypt went through moments of hope, towards a...

What happened to Islamic banking?

Monday, 29 June 2015, 06:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

In the budget speech, the Government had announced the introduction of Islamic Banking in Malta. A year has nearly passed but there has been no word from Government about this initiative. In the wake...

'Just ignore them. Their hobby is making storms in teacups.'

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The title I’ve chosen is an actual comment which somebody posted beneath one of the news reports about the Nationalist Party’s press conference yesterday. That press conference was about...

The compromise which can never be accepted

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:10 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The Prime Minister is seeking a compromise which will allow him to proceed with the rape of Iż-Żonqor. It will be acceptable to all bar the extremists the Prime Minister was reported as...

A sense of impotence

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

  Collecting my wits at the end of a day that had seen terror writ large all over the world with three contemporaneous, probably planned, terror attacks, I am filled with an acute sense of...

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