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Sunday, 5 February 2017, 12:44 Last update: about 11 years ago

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Renting in Malta - the struggles of a tenant

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alice Taylor

I rented my first property in Malta back in 2009. A two-bedroom seafront flat, with a wraparound terrace and sea views. Granted, it had no lift and some of the furniture in it was older than me, but...

The Panama Papers and a Theory of Government Part 3

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It is my firm belief that the Panama Papers Mizzi-Schembri scandal – the secret companies of Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Keith Schembri – represents...

Editorial: The EU’s lip service to the plight of refugees

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:45 Last update: about 11 years ago

EU leaders who convened in Malta on Friday to address the flow of migrants across the central Mediterranean, by and large, paid mere lip service to the awful plight of African migrants trapped in...

Gozo‘s legacy from Valletta 2018

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

Talking of culture as a community value at a national level brings out interesting observations when looking at it through the perspective of the elderly and those with disability. Indeed, culture is...

The Minister’s astonishing carelessness

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Clyde Puli

The Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties Ministry demonstrates excellent skills in fairy-tale writing as it takes me to task for exposing the “Rights” Minister’s...

Political quislings

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

What I find repulsive and despicable is the contemptible act of those who are political switchers from one camp to the other. I am referring mostly to those front liners who devotedly formed part of...

Life is beautiful!

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Few are those who did not hear about that famous 1997 Italian comedy-drama film La vità è bella (Life is beautiful), which starred Roberto Benigni, who also directed it. The...

Getting lean in 2017

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Karmenu Vella

On the first anniversary of the EU's Circular Economy Package, EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella looks back on the progress and reveals what's still to come.   A year ago, the...

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