More Efficient law courts
Friday, 14 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
“Malta needs more judges and magistrates” – in essence this was the message given by Chief Justice Vincent Degaetano on the opening day of the forensic year....
Jungle Behaviour
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
My colleague David Lindsay, a journalist on this newspaper, wrote a piece for the Sunday edition, in which he described how, while riding on bus number 13 after the Alleanza Nazzjonali Republikana’s rally in Valletta....
Fair Share for consumers… and traders
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Consumers’ rights have long been one of the main concerns of the European Union. With Malta’s recent accession to the EU, the new directives dealing with this subject were transposed into Maltese legislation with the result that, Maltese people....
Tough Job for Merkel
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
The appointment of Angela Merkel as the first female German Chancellor and the first from the former East Germany is a landmark in the country’s struggle to surmount the obstacles of unification following the end of the Cold War, 15 years ago....
The MLP And the GWU
Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
The statement made by opposition leader Alfred Sant during last week’s General Workers’ Union national congress provides much food for thought....
Need Of a no-nonsense approach to irregular immigration
Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
Apart from encouraging co-development as a means of addressing migratory flows, we must ensure that – particularly at the UN and within the WTO....
The Three Cs
Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
In the second half of the 1990s, as Malta was coming to grips with Mount Maghtab and the problems associated with the increasing amount of waste being dumped there, environmentalists came up with the 3Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle. ...
The Perilous path to democracy
Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
It was the fashionable stance to take to be against the war in Iraq, and now, obviously, it is the fashionable stance to take to be for the withdrawal of troops and a summary end to occupation. ...
Role Of Malta University
Saturday, 1 October 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
Way back in l997 – almost a decade ago – we were regaled with a white paper on reforms that could be implemented at the University of Malta. ...