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Surrounded By fiery noise

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

From Mr J. AzzopardiIt is 7.15pm on Sunday, 17 July.I live in Hamrun and for the past hour and even now as I write, we in Hamrun are surrounded by a wall of noise caused by festa fireworks....

Of Golf, golf courses and golfing holidays

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

From Mr W. CunninghamI am sure that my good friend Charles Flores is more than capable of replying to Mr A. Bonello without any help from me. However, as one of the Scots that Charles referred to in his original article...

(Sur)real Estate

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Economic history teaches us that more often than not, an economic bust is the result of the fallout from the collective hysteria attributed to an asset or a class of assets by a population drunk on false financial expectations ...

A Moment In Time: That 70s show

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

As we get older we tend to remember and categorise everything by decades. I wonder if that’s meant to camouflage something or merely a way of enveloping experiences and events so that they fit, prim and proper, into the letterbox of time....

State Of denial

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I have always suspected it but now the proof is concrete solid. We are living in a state of denial....

Maltese Apartheid

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Martin Gatt is a 43-year-old assistant manager who used to work with a mid-sized shoe manufacturing company at Bulebel. The foreign-owned company had been in Malta since 1983 ...

The Price for being America’s foremost ally

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The four synchronised attacks that brought unimaginable horror to London’s rush hour, was one of England’s worst attacks. At least 55 people were killed and some 700 injured by the three bombs on the underground and one on the No 30 bus. ...

Ignorance Of the basic concepts of ecology

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I refer to A. Bonello’s letter regarding the proposed golf course at Xaghra il-Hamra (TMIS, 17 July)....

Right Of reply

Sunday, 24 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I act for Architect Robert Sant with reference to the article under the heading “Plans submitted to MEPA by partner in minister’s office were false, court rules”. The article was carried on the front and second pages (TMIS, 17 July)....

Democratising Workplaces

Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In these last decades, Malta made enormous progress in liberal democracy; however, we still lack in industrial democracy. Democracy must be available for everyone and everywhere and the workplace is not an exception. ...

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