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Different considerations and interpretations

Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 08:18 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

Lately, I received a one liner e-mail. To protect the identity of the services contractor and the senior public officer, their names are not being disclosed. Hereunder, I am reproducing the e-mail in...

Rhetoric?

Monday, 2 February 2015, 09:49 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

I am writing this piece right after the Prime Minister's magnificent concluding speech. I must confess that I am still overawed and positively impressed. Whoever is compiling the content and...

When a bus shelter becomes home

Monday, 2 February 2015, 09:46 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Naturally in my media role I do get people regularly coming in contact on human situations which I try to follow the best way possible and refer accordingly to the competent authorities.  I feel...

Michelle Obama passes the hemlock

Monday, 2 February 2015, 08:33 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

As rightly noted by a number of bloggers to my previous article, the recent death of the King of Saudi Arabia exposed the West’s hypocrisy on a number of issues and perhaps what has happened in...

The Three Secrets of Castille

Saturday, 31 January 2015, 07:51 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

Seriously, not even the Vatican has held the Fatima secrets as close as has our Labour government in terms of its contracts for our national energy policy. There are so many others that we are now...

The artful dodgers

Friday, 30 January 2015, 07:33 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Labour, the most transparent government in history, has taken dodging questions to a new level. But when you look closer, it boils down to three simple ploys. Ploy no. 1: Refuse to publish...

Hiding a minister

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 10:18 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

Konrad Mizzi did not turn up for a television programme on PBS last Monday, in which he had to debate his own baby, the energy sector, with the Nationalist Party shadow minister Marthese...

If you’re going to vote No, just say so

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 09:47 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Yesterday I was at a press conference given by a group of lawyers and one former judge, on the subject of whether the referendum on spring hunting spells the beginning of the end for other "hobbies"...

Doing it at sixteen

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 08:09 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Finally 16 year olds are on the national agenda on a host of issues - and the beauty of this debate is that we are at cahoots whether they should be getting more rights, other roles and further...

Our Capital City - The Way Forward

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 08:07 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Malta Independent has given space to the debate about our capital city that took place in parliament between Parliamentary Secretary Michael Falzon and Opposition MP Claudio Grech.The argument, as...

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