Assessing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 08:09
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
“To promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom”. This is one of the four objectives of the Charter of the United Nations signed on 26 June 1945 at San...
Social fabric and polyester
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 07:55
Last update: about 13 years ago
Gejtu Vella
Last Saturday morning, Malta commemorated the 49th anniversary of its Independence with a pontifical mass at the majestic St John's Co-Cathedral. The soft-spoken Archbishop Paul Cremona called for...
Merkel gets biggest victory since Kohl’s reunification vote
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 07:54
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Angela Merkel won an overwhelming endorsement from German voters, putting the country’s first female chancellor on course for the biggest election tally since Helmut Kohl’s...
Traffic solutions by TM
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 07:54
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
TM decided not to go ahead with roundabout at Rabat Road entrance to Ta ‘Qali and that is a good decision. TM is applying for a traffic light system instead. For...
Jobs & Violins: on a very concrete anti-poverty measure
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 07:40
Last update: about 13 years ago
Clyde Puli
The Minister for the Family and Social Solidarity has recently been quoted as saying that “The mentality of throwing millions at social problems without looking at the results and the root...
Middle East: US-Russia Syria deal props up Assad
Monday, 23 September 2013, 07:52
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
For Syria's divided and beleaguered rebels, the creeping realisation that there will not be a decisive Western military intervention on their behalf is a huge psychological...
The sign of salvation
Monday, 23 September 2013, 07:51
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Friday, September 14, the Church celebrated the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Why the Cross should be exalted? A quick glance at the Old Testament immediately calls our...
Of those with no moral fibre, the Archbishop asks the impossible
Sunday, 22 September 2013, 09:13
Last update: about 13 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Archbishop delivered a sermon at the usual High Mass to mark Independence Day yesterday, to a congregation of politicians, constitutional leaders and the assembled forces of the government. That...
Are we beggars or givers?
Sunday, 22 September 2013, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Stephen Calleja
Not a week passes without some type of fund-raising activity taking place. Whether it’s something that receives national attention, sometimes even by being on one or more local television...