The Malta Independent 6 May 2025, Tuesday
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The Taxing of empty homes

Monday, 11 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Alternattiva Demokratika are busy encouraging people to sign up for a referendum which many do not understand. ...

Back To basics

Monday, 11 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Education Ministry’s decision to bring regional schools under one roof and to have specialised attention to their needs is a very welcome move. ...

Europe Direct Information Relay Service

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I refer to the article entitled “Europe Direct – A vital link between citizens and EU” (TMIS, 26 June) ...

A Factual error

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

While I sympathise with the intentions of those who wish to make Norman Lowell answerable to charges of inciting ...

Here We go – golfing again...

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

As I still spend every Thursday evening in summer playing soccer with a group of friends – mostly in my age bracket – who have been at it for more than 30 ...

Death Of a nation

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

Europe is set to play its trump card in curbing illegal immigration from the African sub-continent. In June 2006, it will erect a barrier across its southern flank and the sacrificial lamb will be Malta. ...

Deaf To defeat

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

When someone passed the plain brown envelope to me in the dead of night, I could not wait to get home to open it and read what was in it. Walking at a brisk pace, my mind was teeming with ...

Life And death in Zebbug and London

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

It seems all the vacuous debates we have had over the last few weeks, prompted partly by the Children’s Commissioners very silly and inconsiderate remarks on IVF, have now...

Gone To the dogs

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

What? Summer? Here already? How on earth can you tell? Hang on... I know. By all the shark-sighting hoaxes, that’s how....

Two Bangs

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

My earliest childhood memories go back to that Maundy Thursday of 1955 when an explosion at the fireworks factory of St Philip’s Band Club in my village Zebbug claimed the lives of four young men. ...

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