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Hear no evil, see no evil

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

“If all the scandals that came before are comparable to the twinkling of stars, the Panama Scandal is the sun scorching our islands like never before”  These are not my words but...

Editorial: Corruption and what people think

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

At first glance, a survey showing that nearly half the population thinks the government is corrupt should be considered as bad news for Castille. But looking at the situation from another angle, given...

New statistics – further confirmation of our success

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 10:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Anton Refalo

Progress and development can be measured in several ways. Some consist in simply subjective and qualitative assessment while a number of hard facts can capture the trend in a more robust way. When we...

It is called a norm

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Michael Asciak

Nobody ever thought that Donald Trump would be the next President of the United States, but there he is. I had an inkling of what might happen when visiting relatives in the USA and Canada last...

Another week of serving people

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Justyne Caruana

The saying "A week is a long time in politics" is attributed to Harold Wilson, Labour's long-serving UK Prime Minister in the sixties. Indeed, even a day is long enough to bring a lot of change in the...

The voice of the people

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Although the Planning Authority (PA) had initally turned down the St Julian’s Local Council invitation to participate in its public consultation meeting, last Monday the PA finally found the...

Thank you from Georgia

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

We, the Buhagiar family, from the second Neochatecumenal community of the Parish of Mosta, have been living here, with our children in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the past 11 years.  We would like to...

Political Augustinianism

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

In the past days I received a personal invitation from the Augustinian Institute in Pietà, the Maltese Augustinian Province, the Faculty of Theology of the University of Malta and the Malta...

Life is short

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald from the original Persian, is marked with a sense of urgency about the transient nature of life. The...

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