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The loss of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Sunday, 22 October 2017, 09:07 Last update: about 9 years ago

In 1987, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s voice started resonating more than others and grew into a journalistic force. She was a woman of talent whose art was writing. Her diligence and good work...

Foreign criminals in Malta

Sunday, 22 October 2017, 09:05 Last update: about 9 years ago

Whenever I hear or read about certain criminal acts committed by foreigners in our country – as we hear almost daily – I always ask myself why such foreigners, including those from other...

Something real

Sunday, 22 October 2017, 09:04 Last update: about 9 years ago

Our society is fast becoming one of virtual reality. We see photographs that are not real but made up to present a more pleasant picture. We chat with persons on social media whom we have never met,...

The Secretary and Apostle of Divine Mercy’s feast

Sunday, 22 October 2017, 09:03 Last update: about 9 years ago

Earlier this month, the Church celebrated the feast of Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938). In Saint John Paul II’s homily at her canonization, this humble Polish nun...

Among the obligations of the State

Sunday, 22 October 2017, 08:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Joseph Muscat’s skill at synthesising a situation never fails to amaze me. He does it with ease and precision, having probably honed the skill during his years as a journalist. The latest...

The soul of our policies

Sunday, 22 October 2017, 08:37 Last update: about 9 years ago Justyne Caruana

For responsible governments strategies are made up of short- and medium-term phases all leading to the final goals, as dictated by policies and inspired by the country's needs and challenges. ...

I want my country back

Sunday, 22 October 2017, 08:29 Last update: about 9 years ago Ivan Grech Mintoff

Last summer, Daphne Caruana Galizia and I collaborated on the Libyan Visa scandal. Let me start by stating that I was never a fan nor a follower of her writings. I found her style unnecessarily...

Silence must not be filled with loud, rushed conclusions

Saturday, 21 October 2017, 17:45 Last update: about 9 years ago

An assassination is a statement in itself. But when a journalist, a wife, a mother of three, is assassinated in a cruel car bomb explosion, that statement cannot be translated into words. There is...

We are so much poorer

Saturday, 21 October 2017, 08:56 Last update: about 9 years ago George Pullicino

The writing was on the wall but we chose to ignore it. It had to come to this to become glaringly obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense that we are now the miserable citizens of a state...

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