What do consumers want?
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 14:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Marie Benoît
Every business would do well to look at the marketplace through the eyes of today’s consumers. Yes, a new type of consumer is rapidly emerging. Although when they first began to emerge in the...
Doorstepping
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 14:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Charló Bonnici
By international standards, local media rarely provide any real challenge to anyone let alone people in power. We have rarely seen reporters asking challenging questions at press briefings. We rarely...
‘I haven’t killed anyone’ Is that enough for salvation?
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 12:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In my pastoral work, I often come across people who claim their ‘righteousness’ by saying: “I haven’t killed anyone!” For them Christian life is simply translated into...
Drama at two Mġarrs
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 12:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Charles Flores
If you can forget the nationwide power cut last Tuesday, then the next top story of the past few days must have been the drama taking place at two Mġarrs – Mġarr in Malta with hardly a tinge of...
What induced the Soviet government to ask God for help?
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 12:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A little known incident concerning the communist regime in the former USSR is the fact that at the height of the last war, with the Nazi armies deep in Russian soil, Joseph Stalin, the Communist...
Unnecessary inconvenience
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 11:26
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Recently, the two Victoria band clubs have been organising events in Republic Street, the main thoroughfare in Gozo, even during the tourist season. The result is a chaotic traffic situation for two...
Qala’s missing trees and resurfaced square
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 11:26
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
I've been coming to Gozo every year for a long time now and in my opinion it's like heaven on earth. I lost the rose-tinted glasses a long time ago and realise that like everywhere else on...
Coping with the heat – and getting on with the work
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 11:25
Last update: about 13 years ago
Justyne Caruana
We are all talking about the heat and our Secretariat for the Rights of People with Disability and Active Ageing has launched a campaign appealing to everyone who has friends or relatives who are...
Mare Nostrum: our sea, our responsibility
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 11:24
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
It was suggested earlier this week somewhere in the Italian media that the Italian navy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for its Mare Nostrum operation, a campaign that has saved literally tens of...
The infrastructural deficit
Sunday, 17 August 2014, 11:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Noel Grima
The jury is still out on what caused Tuesday’s massive power cut. There are all sorts of inquiries being made and one hopes that eventually the truth, however complex, will out. And, if there...