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Looking at 2016, welcoming 2017

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:42 Last update: about 11 years ago Anton Refalo

At this time of the year, it is difficult not to stop and think about the events that took place over the past months. We ended last year with the attacks on Paris. Events that left many of us with an...

2017: an epitaph for sea urchins

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:40 Last update: about 11 years ago George M Mangion

A lot of angst has been showered on the publication of a master plan drawn up by consultants to MEPA for the redevelopment of Paceville and its environs. This was carried out by foreign consultants...

2017 – A new beginning?

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:40 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Mangion

Twenty-Sixteen is now history. The Maltese will remember 2016 for loathsome political reasons. During 2016, the Maltese continued witnessing the biggest deceit in Maltese political history. Those who...

The under-investigated ‘High Place’ in Gozo

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:37 Last update: about 11 years ago

At the Ta' Cenc and Is-Sanap heights in south Gozo, the Jesuit archaeologist Fr Emmanuel Magri drew the attention of Bavarian Dr Albert Mayr to the "High Place" in 1897-8, mentioned as having been...

Open letter to Prime Minister Dr Joseph Muscat

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:35 Last update: about 11 years ago

The European Union is at a crossroads. We, the National Youth Council of Malta, and the European Youth Forum, believe that the only direction to take is the one where young people are included in its...

Nonviolence: our way of living for 2017

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:34 Last update: about 11 years ago

It is always a joy to read Pope Francis’ documents because they grasp that Gospel vitality which we and our society sorely need. A case in point is this year’s Peace Message which is...

Vladimir Putin

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:33 Last update: about 11 years ago

It's absolutely amazing! The name Vladimir Putin is never far from the lips of every honest citizen across the globe. Whether it's Crimea, Ukraine, the mass murder of innocent victims in Syria or the...

Her Excellency's appeal quickly forgotten by PN

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 11 years ago

Dr Beppe Fenech Adami has quickly forgotten what the President had said about political “mud-slinging” in her Republic Day Investiture speech.  Just a few days later in Parliament,...

Fear, outrage, despair

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:31 Last update: about 11 years ago

The recent ferocious attack in the heart of Germany's national capital Berlin that killed 12 innocent people and left others seriously hurt, is terrible enough. It is a vicious blow to the values of...

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