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Death of a giant

Sunday, 13 September 2015, 10:44 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

My earliest memory of Albert Mizzi goes back to April 1974 (I think) when I, a rookie journalist from Il-Hajja, was invited along with other journalists (including our Henry Brincat then at The Times) and travel agents to Air Malta’s inaugural flight to Munich. ...

Buckle up – we’re in for a bumpy ride

Sunday, 13 September 2015, 10:43 Last update: about 12 years ago Alex Mangion

The summer season has brought with it many heated decisions and arguments as well as question marks to the political scene, one being Zonqor Point and the famous American University of Malta.  I...

Thumbs up Francesco

Sunday, 13 September 2015, 10:41 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

There will be those who insist, wrongly, I think, that I am not in a position to comment on matters Catholic since I no longer practise the religion. On the other hand, my having been baptised, albeit...

Now you see him…

Friday, 11 September 2015, 09:30 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Last Sunday, 6 September, the Department of Information published a photo and press release informing us (the general public) that the Prime Minister had a meeting at Castille, in his office, with the...

Immigration: How? How much?

Thursday, 10 September 2015, 09:29 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

In the controversy about immigration that is now raging between membersof the European Union, nowhere do you find any mention of some overall plan regarding how to deal with the long term problem....

Aylan Kurdi

Wednesday, 9 September 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Like most other things in life we yield to rituals, patterns and structures and even though we might feel goaded by these rites and customs at the same time they provide us with reassurance. ...

Jyrki Katainen is simply wrong on migration

Wednesday, 9 September 2015, 08:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The general xenophobia that is being expressed in Europe and Malta towards the in-coming migrants can be dated back to the eighteenth century and the start of Atheism as the new religion of the...

It's more than a heartache

Tuesday, 8 September 2015, 09:34 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

I write with a heavy heart.  In the serene hours of the early morning I speed-read the local and foreign news web-portals.The room is filled with the smell of the brewing coffee. Last...

Backdrop

Monday, 7 September 2015, 13:57 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

It has become a common experience. An ordeal that everyone accepts to expect to go through in life. What was an exception is now the rule for every father, mother, brother or sister. Age is not much...

Smart

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

Should we not have at long last a clear account of where the Smart City project has gotten to? Over the years, we were told so much about it. Beautiful promises and prospects were flashed at us...

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