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Throw them a bone

Saturday, 24 June 2017, 08:48 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

The pan and brush have been put away and whatever could have been swept under the carpet has been covered up. The furniture has been moved over it but the curtains hanging on the window are still the...

No Glyphosate until new research is carried out

Friday, 23 June 2017, 09:26 Last update: about 10 years ago Miriam Dalli

In her latest vlog for the Malta Independent, Labour MEP Miriam Dalli focuses on the controversial issue of Glyphosate, a substance used in most herbicides throughout Europe. She says that it is...

I am no longer part of PN – Salvu Mallia

Friday, 23 June 2017, 08:16 Last update: about 10 years ago Salvu Mallia

Salvu Mallia today says that he is no longer part of the Nationalist Party and he can speak his mind without any attachments. In his blog, Mallia, who contested the last election as a PN...

That’s what you get for promoting graphic violence

Thursday, 22 June 2017, 11:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Things have come to a pretty pass when the Prime Minister resurrects the dinosaurs of his party’s past – to quote the chairman of the European Parliament’s anti-money-laundering...

Choice of words

Thursday, 22 June 2017, 07:44 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The media that labels itself as “independent” was less than comfortable with the outcome of some recent opinion survey which found that it does not enjoy the trust of a majority of...

How Busuttil was misled

Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 09:10 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

My hunch is that Simon Busuttil was misled into believing that the Nationalist Party could win the election. If this is so, there could be two reasons for it. The deception could have been...

When the Saints go marching

Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 07:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I was brought up in an ordinary Maltese family, however feasts were never really an integral part of my upbringing.  Except for the occasional visit to my parents’ town (of origin) feast I...

It’s all about you

Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 08:06 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. The sooner the electoral beating is accepted and dealt with,  the sooner victory looms on the horizon.  In the aftermath of yet...

Challenges

Monday, 19 June 2017, 07:44 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The main challenges that the new Labour administration will have to deal with in coming years are clear: the future of financial servies; the future of Air Malta, and of the tourism sector when and if...

Our justice system

Friday, 3 October 2014, 08:55 Last update: about 13 years ago Simon Mercieca

The opening of the forensic year brought about two contrasting views about our system of justice. The first one was that expressed by Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri and the other by Auxiliary Bishop...

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