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What volunteering is not!

Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 08:37 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I suppose December is best known as ‘the month of volunteering’.   Through a number of fund raising events organised during this last part of the year we are invited to remember...

Yes it’s time to restore trust in politics

Tuesday, 8 December 2015, 10:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

Surfing the different local news web portals last Sunday, the most striking item reported was the launch of another working document by the PN ‘Restoring Trust in Politics’. This is...

Human Dignity: The Quest

Tuesday, 8 December 2015, 07:09 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

Each year, on 8th December, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Immaculate Conception; an extremely important cult but not without its controversies. The history of this cult is the...

Good governance: the PN’s tall order

Monday, 7 December 2015, 08:23 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. We all know that before the 2013 election Joseph Muscat promised good governance, pledging to make it a pillar on which he said Labour would run the...

Draghi's targets

Monday, 7 December 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

The President of the European Central Bank is back again at the centre of a new controversy about monetary policy in the euro zone. The latest data about the economic and financial outturn of the...

News is what happens, and not what TVM reports

Sunday, 6 December 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Broadcasting Authority has ruled against the public broadcaster, TVM, for failing to report in its news bulletin Labour backbencher Joe Debono Grech’s threats to independent MP Marlene...

The height of folly

Sunday, 6 December 2015, 10:56 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

For the second time in recent days, the Home Affairs Minister rose in Parliament to attack the Opposition media for trying to frighten people. The minister is wrong. He is very wrong....

Gozo Channel: tunnelling discounts

Sunday, 6 December 2015, 10:27 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

When the current Gozo Channel tunnel debate was initiated around five years ago, the then Minister Chris Said went on record to emphasise that the proposed tunnel, to be bored under the seabed would...

I’m a survivor

Saturday, 5 December 2015, 09:02 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

This week saw the start- up of another Front.  This time it is the Front Favur il-Mina which proposes to lobby for the three points on improving the connection between Gozo and Malta. It is...

Freedom of expression is precious

Thursday, 3 December 2015, 11:18 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Yet another magistrate has called for the repeal of the law which makes defamation a crime, rather than just something for which you can sue in the civil courts for damages. Last time it was...

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