False Pretences
Saturday, 17 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
The National Statistics Office has just announced that the number of licensed motor vehicles in these Islands increased from 248,270 in January 200l to 274,355 at the end of June...
The X Factor
Saturday, 17 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
There were high expectations that our tourism industry would really pick up this year, with the government slapping down a 50,000 passenger increase target....
Gog And Magog: in the land of the beasts
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
I had known that the medieval Arabs despised the white people of Europe with disgusted condescension far greater than that felt by the white people of Europe, including the brown Maltese, for Arabs today. ...
Support For the EU
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, support from the Maltese people for EU membership has dropped again. It is now down to 40 per cent from the 45 per cent registered in the previous survey....
Not If, but when
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
It has been a number of months since the traffic lights at the Kappara roundabout have been switched off. ...
Illegal Employment
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The Employment and Training Corporation last week issued statistics with regard to the number of workers who were caught working illegally....
The Hunting regulations
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Under intense pressure from abroad, and from Malta itself, the government has finally been forced to cut back on trapping and shooting at sea. What’s more....
Katrina, The film...
Monday, 5 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
If any film director had made a film about how a hurricane could destroy and flood an American city, you would have thought this is just another fantastical doom and gloom Hollywood movie....
The Church Should not avoid the subject
Sunday, 4 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
The Church has taken the time, trouble and interest to collate and communicate its views on the Sant’ Antnin waste recycling plant to the government,...