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Treading on thin ice

Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 14:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

In conducting healthy industrial relations, knowledge and a good grasp of employment laws, a knack for persuasion, a good-sized portion of perseverance, an open mind, an inquisitive eye, the ability...

Paqpaqli: Absence of safety and... of ministers

Monday, 5 October 2015, 10:23 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

The accident at the Paqpaqli ghall-Istrina event on Sunday shocked our nation. What was supposed to be an afternoon of entertainment for a good cause turned out to be a nightmare for the injured...

EU Presidency

Monday, 5 October 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Parliamentary secretary for European affairs Ian Borg was in Brussels to attend a meeting of the socialist and democratic group in the European Parliament. He is in charge of the preparations for...

Twisted behaviour in a small society

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

In small, closed societies, the stage is often set for the development of twisted behaviour, weirdness and all kinds of perversity going on beneath a thin and yet strangely impermeable veneer of...

Heads roll at the Curia

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

I don’t usually comment on church issues, especially internal church matters. But this was too good to miss. And everybody seems to have missed it. Or at least I have not found any...

If pigs had a vote

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

The latest shots in Malta's environmental siege that followed so soon after the Żonqor debacle, were fired earlier this week by Parliamentary Secretary Chris Agius who, accompanied by PN Sports...

Leg-up

Saturday, 3 October 2015, 09:48 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

That time of the year is approaching again, when the man walks self- consciously,carrying a brief case like a hunter with his illegal quarry in a bag and all the population are meant to stop what they...

A plea for a Ministry for Marine Affairs

Friday, 2 October 2015, 12:22 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

Malta has a rich maritime heritage but it wasnevertaken very seriously by our politicians.Joseph Muscat, the Maritime historian, is a pioneer of our maritime history and is one of the first who...

Another bold move

Friday, 2 October 2015, 12:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Do you remember Joseph Muscat in Opposition? It is only two and a half years ago and I am sure that like me, you will remember he did or said very little which anybody can define as remotely positive...

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