Wirt Għawdex and Gozo’s Heritage sites – Part II
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 10:30
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The non-governmental organization Wirt Għawdex today manages historical sites in the Citadel, the Tower of Mġarr ix-Xini, and a unique medieval chapel, all in Gozo. The society has roots...
11 September: A world forever changed
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 08:03
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
As the world yesterday marked the 12th anniversary of the 11 September terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C., one cannot but also mark the fact that few are the ways in which the atrocity...
Bends, easy bends & bendy buses
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 07:53
Last update: about 13 years ago
Gejtu Vella
The reform of the public transport was on the national agenda for too many years. Successive ministers made various attempts to bring about improvements in public transport. All made significant...
Time to shape up
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 07:52
Last update: about 13 years ago
Alfred Mifsud
Six months ago almost to the day, the PN got an electoral blow of unprecedented proportions. Not only did it lose the election with a margin beyond their most horrifying dreams, but they were...
Maltese psyche’s views challenged by report
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 09:57
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In today’s culture, most men’s animal instinct has been changed from survival and propagation at all costs, to a sense of providing for family and offspring in the best...
Government U-turns multiply
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 09:48
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
First we celebrated the first 100 days of the new Labour administration. Then the first three months. Now some have remembered it is now six months into this new administration. And, as the Italians...
So we are multi-active
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 13:08
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
As we reported on our front page today, a world traveller who speaks 10 languages, has qualified the Maltese population under the multi-active category – a lively, loquacious people who do many...
As US justifies ‘red line’, militants take over village
Monday, 9 September 2013, 10:44
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Last week, we posed the question in a leading article, asking whether military intervention in Syria would lead to a complete breakdown of the country, turning it into a failed...
Under the spell of music
Sunday, 8 September 2013, 11:34
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Maestro Damiano Binetti is not a new face in Malta. He has come here on other occasions; in 2011 to conduct Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Manoel Theatre; the following year, also at the...