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Constitutional Convention: let’s get on with it

Sunday, 3 January 2016, 09:11 Last update: about 12 years ago

If for no other reason, the assembling of the Constitutional Convention the government has been promising is an absolute necessity to redefine the country’s constitutional neutrality to meet the...

Our vision for 2016

Sunday, 3 January 2016, 08:47 Last update: about 12 years ago

I remember reading an excerpt from a North American motivational speaker, writer and consultant, Denis E. Waitley, which goes: “A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You...

Behind the Holy Doors

Sunday, 3 January 2016, 08:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

Medieval superstition survives in the 21st century. We see Pope Francis proclaiming 2016 a “Holy Year” and opening “Holy Doors”, and dispensing worthless indulgences. These...

Mission Fund appreciation

Sunday, 3 January 2016, 08:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

I wish to thank the Mission Fund V.O./0015 for their kind donation to our mission in Pakistan. The funds will be used to finance programmes for Christian formation of youth and adults in poor parishes...

Constitution Convention

Sunday, 3 January 2016, 08:15 Last update: about 12 years ago

When speaking at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Republic Day monument in Marsa on Saturday, 12th December, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that in a few months’ time, a process to establish...

Iraqi troops back in the game

Sunday, 3 January 2016, 08:14 Last update: about 12 years ago

Since ISIS went on an epic land-grabbing spree last year, it never lost a battle. One of their important acquisitions was Ramadi, a key city in Iraq just 60 miles away from Baghdad. However, last...

On Hubs (DISABILITY) and shafts

Sunday, 3 January 2016, 08:13 Last update: about 12 years ago

I wish to provide some additional insight into the public discourse initiated some weeks ago after the government’s proposal for a “disability Hub” was unveiled. For clarity, the...

2016: The new year ahead

Saturday, 2 January 2016, 08:10 Last update: about 12 years ago

By far the best news of the day yesterday was that there were no serious incidents on the road, no serious injuries and no fatalities. The police said that the vast majority of breathalyser tests...

Setting the record straight

Friday, 1 January 2016, 14:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

I am writing to request you to publish this letter as my right of reply to an article penned by Claudette Buttigieg MP on the 13th of November 2015 in your paper. Regrettably and shamefully, Mrs...

Drink driving: Make it ‘none for the road’ tonight

Thursday, 31 December 2015, 08:29 Last update: about 12 years ago

The country, along with most of the rest world, will ring in the New Year tonight with a good measure of joviality and also with perhaps more than a good few measures of alcohol in their...

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