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The Prime Minister has a lot to answer for, and so do others

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:39 Last update: about 10 years ago

She once wrote that the fear she felt was palpable when the police came to her door and she sent her son into the fields with a computer. People who speak to me frankly tell me to not write letters to...

A monument to Daphne Caruana Galizia

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:38 Last update: about 10 years ago

A monument facing Castille should immediately be erected, in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered because she refused to remain silent. Almost all who made Malta what it is to-day are...

Unity is plural

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Ivan Grech Mintoff

Whenever politicians invite the nation to unite, they never actually mean "Let our nation unite." What they really mean is: "Come! Let us all unite... around me." It's all double talk - spin -...

Poem for Daphne

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:36 Last update: about 10 years ago

Written for my aunt, Daphne Caruana Galizia, one of the greatest and bravest investigative journalists in Malta, who was killed by a car bomb on Monday 16 October 2017. Her murder was an attempt to...

I wish I had her courage

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:31 Last update: about 10 years ago

Wrapped up in my thoughts, I stood before the Great Siege monument in Valletta, the place that has become a temporary shrine to Malta's top journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was assassinated by a...

A life-changing praise song

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

Some weeks ago, after a very tiring day at Mater Dei, going from ward to ward attending to the patients, relatives and staff's spiritual needs, I had the grace...

Gaia's revenge

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:24 Last update: about 10 years ago

This year has witnessed signs of the long-predicted global warming: a scorching summer in Europe; a series of catastrophic hurricanes in the Caribbean and in Texas; and melting...

Youths for Life - the youth parliament revisited

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:11 Last update: about 10 years ago

Firstly, we would like to congratulate the National Youth Council for representing young people in Malta for 25 years. It is crucial that the voice of young people is heard in society, and it is this...

Solo in a no-man's land- Daphne Caruana Galizia

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 11:06 Last update: about 10 years ago Patrick J O Brien

When Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb as she drove down a country road, Maltese society shook and the world zoomed in with shock. There is, throughout Malta, a genuine outpouring of...

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