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TMID Editorial: IVF Bill - The President’s choice

Monday, 25 June 2018, 12:11 Last update: about 9 years ago

President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was criticised by many individuals last week for having signed the IVF Bill when she did not agree with its contents. Yet it seems that most of this criticism was...

The Dick Whittingtons of our times

Sunday, 24 June 2018, 08:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

A few days ago Henry Frendo, history professor at the University of Malta, wrote a letter to another newspaper complaining about punditry and the frequent peddling of factoids. I wrote an online...

Comments are free, facts are sacred

Sunday, 24 June 2018, 08:44 Last update: about 9 years ago Justyne Caruana

In serving the people through public projects, each phase is a step forward in the implementation process of a set goal. Locally, periodic achievements are more welcome when aimed at the completion of...

Plague doctors, trees and automobiles

Sunday, 24 June 2018, 08:27 Last update: about 9 years ago Timothy Alden

The devastation sweeping Malta is not the Black Plague. One could be fooled however, into thinking the land itself is groaning and sweating in some epidemic. Our government seems to be made up of...

The admirable Mrs Merkel

Sunday, 24 June 2018, 08:26 Last update: about 9 years ago

The other day some politicians were asking this question: “Is Merkel fatigue setting in? Is Angela Merkel done for? Is she about to hand over the reins of power to someone else?” It...

Focusing on the migrant crisis

Sunday, 24 June 2018, 08:24 Last update: about 9 years ago

One issue that is uniting our political parties to take a common stand and defend Maltese interests is illegal migrants trying to reach European shores. From a historical perspective, migration...

Attard environment

Sunday, 24 June 2018, 08:23 Last update: about 9 years ago

The government’s own Transport Master Plan published in 2016 claims that the studies made during the consultation process, had identified that there exists a deep-rooted car-oriented culture and...

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