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Joseph’s all-you-can-eat buffet

Thursday, 18 June 2015, 09:55 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

When Joseph Muscat was leader of the Opposition, he wound people up and stirred the pot of public dissatisfaction by making out that there was some kind of clique – and more to the point, an...

Interest

Thursday, 18 June 2015, 08:58 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

We're at a time when interest rates on borrowed funds were never so low. True, recently there have been some weak upward pressures on rates. But when did it ever happen that some borrowings are being...

No nostalgia for the 80s

Wednesday, 17 June 2015, 14:42 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Recently I was in a conversation with a friend and colleague a couple of years younger than myself.  I was sharing some stories that recapped my teens during the political turmoil that drove...

The PM’s indecent proposal

Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 16:38 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

The package of €1.65 million in addition to pieces of land in exchange for a shared ownership in a property in Old Mint Street Valletta raised eyebrows as tax-payers coughed hard earned money....

Defining feasibility

Monday, 15 June 2015, 16:15 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

With reference to the SPED, of course I would have done things differently.  There is no doubt about that. We need to get this country’s style of governance into 2015, after...

Free movement of services

Monday, 15 June 2015, 08:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

During long past negotiations to remove European tariffs on products, farmers and industrial workers wanted to retain protection. They were accused of only trying to defend their...

Abyssum Abyssum Invocat

Monday, 15 June 2015, 07:58 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

This Latin proverb is extremely appropriate to define what is happening at the Department of Lands under this current administration. In English, this proverb can be translated as one hell summons...

Political responsibility

Sunday, 14 June 2015, 13:35 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Good governance is clearly going to the dogs. It is not just a case of matters that could have been handled better, as Prime Minister Joseph Muscat stated in the aftermath of the Café Premier...

Rags to riches

Saturday, 13 June 2015, 11:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

While the government is busy making some people millionaires, others are facing dire straits.  Rather than ensuring there are policies in place to deal with this deprivation, the focus is on...

Konrad goes mizzing

Friday, 12 June 2015, 15:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Another week, another record-breaking Labour low. According to this lot’s greatly watered down code of ministerial ethics, the Speaker’s office is supposed to be informed when a minister...

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