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What happened to Islamic banking?

Monday, 29 June 2015, 06:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

In the budget speech, the Government had announced the introduction of Islamic Banking in Malta. A year has nearly passed but there has been no word from Government about this initiative. In the wake...

'Just ignore them. Their hobby is making storms in teacups.'

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:15 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The title I’ve chosen is an actual comment which somebody posted beneath one of the news reports about the Nationalist Party’s press conference yesterday. That press conference was about...

The compromise which can never be accepted

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:10 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The Prime Minister is seeking a compromise which will allow him to proceed with the rape of Iż-Żonqor. It will be acceptable to all bar the extremists the Prime Minister was reported as...

A sense of impotence

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

  Collecting my wits at the end of a day that had seen terror writ large all over the world with three contemporaneous, probably planned, terror attacks, I am filled with an acute sense of...

Labour’s Pop Idol tries dirty dancing

Friday, 26 June 2015, 15:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

When the first scandals of this Labour government began to emerge, like the Café Premier scandal, Joseph Muscat blamed the missteps on inexperience. Poor guy, he was still in the first episodes...

A Police “Mafia” or a Mafia Police?

Friday, 26 June 2015, 10:41 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

A few years ago, during the previous administration, a police inspector demanded the Magistrates’ Courts to imprison me for two years for sending an email reporting an irregular behaviour of a...

Fossil-hunting in the Council of Europe

Thursday, 25 June 2015, 15:09 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Wherever that Mintoffian fossil goes, he embarrasses Malta. I don’t mean Reno Calleja and his fixation with Communist China, which he actually preferred in its Chairman Mao days, but Joe Debono...

IDEOLOGY

Thursday, 25 June 2015, 11:04 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

We’ve long been told that ideology died when the Berlin wall fell and globalisation spread. I never believed this fairy story but have always been impressed by the fact that so many...

Those sitting on the flashy green chairs on rails

Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 14:25 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

One distinctive feature that is embedded in this nation’s collective memory is our obsession with politicians for reasons that have been discussed countless times notably so in Professor Oliver...

Dr Ian Borg’s apology is a step in the right direction

Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 13:40 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

This government’s pledge to fight bureaucracy tooth and nail is bearing fruit, alas to the selected few.   Pampering the selected few is a gross social injustice which cannot be erased...

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