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Time to rethink?

Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 08:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

While our doctors have been greedily looking after their own interests in an ever-changing scenario of the Maltese health sector which, undoubtedly, needs a long-overdue refit more than Malta needs...

Time

Monday, 12 February 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

In a recent interesting debate at the European Parliament the discussion was about whether the European summer time system should be rolled over or not. Some wanted to keep it going, others to change...

Guantanamo and the survival of a colonial dichotomy

Monday, 12 February 2018, 07:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

As indicated in my previous blog, President Donald Trump referred to the American camp in Guantanamo Bay in his address to the nation. He stated that this camp is going to remain open. During the...

Internet incivility – the new social cancer

Sunday, 11 February 2018, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

Has being utterly vile to each other become the new norm? The fundamental ethics such as fairness, mutual respect, honesty, responsibility, emotional intelligence, and tolerance seem to have been...

Jason’s slap

Sunday, 11 February 2018, 10:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Jason Azzopardi is frequently scorned, derided and opposed by his own side, let alone the other one. Years back, a cabinet colleague of his showed me a spoof video someone had made, dressing him...

Common sense at Buleben

Sunday, 11 February 2018, 08:58 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The farmers at Buleben have been served with an evacuation order because the land they have tilled for generations is required to make way for the construction of new factories. We are told that our...

Minister Fearne, some honesty please

Saturday, 10 February 2018, 08:21 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

There is but one voice at the moment to speak for the patients and the needs of the sick and that is the Medical Association of Malta.  In protecting the rights and conditions of the medical...

Of rule, of law

Friday, 9 February 2018, 07:58 Last update: about 10 years ago Owen Bonnici

Daphne's murder was probably one of the most horrendous episodes in this country’s recent history.  It shocked everyone to the core: it triggered a sense of disbelief and anger towards...

Who is intrinsically disordered?

Sunday, 12 October 2014, 10:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

Last week I came across a presentation by Joseanne Peregin. Joseanne is the President of the Christian Life Community in Malta and a few years back she had to merge her Catholic beliefs with the fact...

European harakiri

Sunday, 12 October 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Charles Flores

I see from recent local reports that Maltese pig breeders may be caught in the European Union’s sanctions folly against Russia. That is a very small, insignificant part of the otherwise vast,...

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