May Day
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 09:04
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18 The history of 1 May as a workers’ holiday is intimately tied to the generations-long movement for...
On perceptions and reality: the Red Plan
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 09:02
Last update: about 14 years ago
Clyde Puli
It is often said that politics is all about perception and while some would readily contest the veracity of this concept, the Malta Labour Party seems to have fully embraced it and...
Midwives' conference
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The Malta Independent on Sunday carried a report entitled “Coleiro Preca emphasises importance of natural birth”. Congratulations to the Midwives' Association for organising the...
Growth needed to avoid the pain in Spain
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 09:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Alfred Mifsud
The PN refused the government’s invitation to participate in the Action Committee for Economic Growth. It maintained that such participation would go against the...
Jurgen Habermas
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 08:59
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
It is strange that while philosophers like Jurgen Habermas, a modernist sociologist with a neo Marxian bent, who however does not like the vicissitudes of post-modernism, are trying to laud Christian...
European Maritime Day in Valletta
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 08:59
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The historic quays of Valletta, the capital of Malta, will play host to this year’s European Maritime Day. This year’s event is dedicated to maritime and coastal tourism, a very apt theme...
We need more than knee-jerk reactions
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 08:54
Last update: about 13 years ago
Pamela Hansen
My first reaction, as well as that of the many people who commented online to the Times report, “Probation for 17-year-olds who raped girl, 14”, was that surely probation was not enough...
The wrong message
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 08:51
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Despite the circumstances taken into consideration this week when the courts delivered an arguably lenient sentence to three 17-year-old boys involved in the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl, the...
Using entrepreneurship to combat unemployment
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 09:16
Last update: about 14 years ago
David Casa
Approximately one third of EU citizens would prefer to be self employed. This figure has decreased over the past three years, down from 45% to 37%. This figure is lower than any of the European...
PN leadership race: A symbolic attempt to show unity
Friday, 3 May 2013, 08:36
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The four candidates who are vying to lead the Nationalist Party are set to take part in an activity tonight together. It will be an unprecedented event in the PN’s history, as the...