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Health privatisation by stealth

Friday, 10 July 2015, 12:10 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

 In a newspaper article in March this year, the President of the Medical Association of Malta, Gordon Caruana Dingli, wrote about what any reform of our health system needed. “There should...

Criminal libel, not porn, should have been the priority

Thursday, 9 July 2015, 12:09 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

So the laws against pornography, blasphemy and the vilification of “the Roman Catholic Church and other cults recognised by law” are to be repealed. And not before time: they were already...

New choices

Thursday, 9 July 2015, 10:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

It was interesting this week in Strasbourg to observe the reaction of European parliamentarians and others to the referendum results in Greece. Many seemed stunned and unable to understand what...

Tony’s story

Wednesday, 8 July 2015, 12:04 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

There is no greater love than that of a parent.  Don’t we all know this?  People who are fortunate enough to be parents and were handed this privilege know well-enough that they would...

Living on a shoe-string

Tuesday, 7 July 2015, 12:27 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

At different junctures over the years, pensioners have received the short end of the stick.  Although a minimal number of classes of pensioners were granted a revision, however piteous, in the...

Power back to the people in Europe

Monday, 6 July 2015, 08:56 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

I have mixed feelings regarding the manner both the Government and the Opposition have been discussing and looking at the Greek crisis. On the one hand, I cannot but agree with the way, Finance...

Post referendum

Monday, 6 July 2015, 07:50 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

The results of the Tsipras referendum need to be assessed in a way that brings out clearly the meaning of the choices which the Greek people – as well as the peoples of the European Union...

This is not about racism. It’s about ħamallaġni.

Sunday, 5 July 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

After I wrote my column for The Malta Independent last Thursday, in which I joined the chorus of condemnation of what was done to Daboma Jack, I set to thinking about it a little more and realised...

Yes or No, the Greek crisis will not be resolved today

Sunday, 5 July 2015, 13:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

I passed by the Greek Embassy in Ta’ Xbiex yesterday and I saw no crowd of Maltese patriots shouting outside “Give us back our €89 million”. But a few miles away, in...

Trying to squeeze out the small political parties?

Sunday, 5 July 2015, 13:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Legislation regulating the financing of political parties in Malta is long overdue. Alternattiva Demokratika has been harping on about this subject since its foundation in 1989 and has referred to it...

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