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Bezzina’s almond grove

Sunday, 19 February 2017, 10:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Planning application PA7854/16 submitted to the Planning Authority by Toni Bezzina, PN spokesman for Agriculture, was downright misleading. This was underlined by environmental NGO Din l-Art...

Own goal

Saturday, 18 February 2017, 10:16 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Actually, now, it has been a whole volley of own goals by the Labour Party.  Like those automatic machines that pump out tennis balls or plates for shooting.  This is an inevitable outcome...

Saving the country from a certain disaster

Friday, 17 February 2017, 09:28 Last update: about 10 years ago Salvu Mallia

Nationalist Party candidate Salvu Mallia today says there needs to be a united front to fight to save the country from what he says is a “certain disaster”, using the same words that...

EU must work hard against far right, populism

Friday, 17 February 2017, 08:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Miriam Dalli

The European Union must work hard to counter the growing far right and populism factions in our society, Labour MEP Miriam Dalli said. In her vlog on The Malta Independent, Dr Dalli said the EU...

Stand up to be counted

Friday, 17 February 2017, 08:33 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The protest which will take place on Sunday afternoon in Valletta is a golden opportunity for all of us, as a nation, to stand up to be counted. It is a protest in favour of liberty and democracy at a...

Get your tanks off my lawn

Thursday, 16 February 2017, 11:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

A week is a long time in politics, Harold Wilson is supposed to have said (but nobody knows for sure). And it’s been a while now since we last saw the truth of that – until this past week....

Divergences in the eurozone

Thursday, 16 February 2017, 07:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The eurozone is now free of the tensions that tormented it just a few years ago. Acute crises seem to have become a thing of the past. In their majority, its economies are registering positive...

Marcel Pisani, a gentleman, an activist and a leader

Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 08:56 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

It has been a long time coming.  Rumours that Marcel was seriously ill were touted for some time.  Somehow I never believed that this would happen and that Marcel will pass away and not...

Alfred Sant revisited

Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 11:58 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to interview Labour MEP Alfred Sant on our programme INDEPTH. Apart from the love for books and the pleasure of reading and writing, I have little else in...

Dr Simon Busuttil is growing in stature

Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 08:50 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

Love her or hate her, Mrs Daphne Caruana Galizia is a self-made journalist who has earned a name for herself because of her razor-sharp pen.  Her inquisitive posts, excellent writing skills and...

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