The Malta Independent 12 November 2026, Thursday
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Two weights, two measures

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

After some six months since the Panama Data Dump, the long knives in Malta are still out, and endlessly sharpened, in an unrelenting quest to claim as trophies the scalps of Konrad Mizzi and Keith...

The hunters’ saint

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

St Julian’s is always inventing some noisy “anniversary” to celebrate, either of its band club or its patron saint. This summer, the anniversary relates to the...

Hail the Malta Police Force

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

I really just fail to comprehend the valid reason for all this frequent, and somewhat, frantic lambasting, even appearing in editorials of prominent local newspapers, directed against our Law...

Fish farms

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Recent revelations, or indeed admissions by fish farm owners that slicks of foul smelling toxic slime polluting large stretches of Malta’s once clear waters surrounding the islands are in fact...

Ministry scholarships

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

I was recently reminded of Loughborough College in England, first through the academic successes of a Maltese student and Ministry scholarship holder Emma Grech, and then by the outstanding...

The never-ending war on terror

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

In the wake of the mass casualty attacks in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Orlando, Belgium, Nice and Munich, as well as numerous smaller ones by the so-called lone wolves, it is simply a disturbing fact that no...

The Three words

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

The 31st World Youth Day that took place in Krakow in July was an outstanding celebration of hope, mercy and compassion for young people, particularly at a time when our shattering world is...

Courtesy and solidarity are a must

Sunday, 21 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Justyne Caruana

Fatal accidents on our roads are becoming quite frequent and with each loss of life concerns are mounting, and drivers as well as pedestrians (who are equally ill-disciplined) are urged to observe...

Corruption: We can see the clouds gathering on all sides

Saturday, 20 August 2016, 10:33 Last update: about 11 years ago

We are still some days away from the resumption of political life in Europe but we can already see clouds gathering over the horizon on all sides. Post-Brexit Europe is not a happy place at all....

Such a hard task to keep the sea clean

Friday, 19 August 2016, 11:27 Last update: about 11 years ago

Over the past years, Malta has spent millions and millions to keep the sea clean. As a result, the sea became clean just a couple of years ago and Malta’s beaches began to be acclaimed as having...

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