The Malta Independent 14 June 2025, Saturday
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Spoiled Teachers

Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

I read with interest John Bencini’s Opinion Serious problems facing the teaching profession in Malta (TMID, 14 April). Although Malta is a free democratic country, and hence everyone is free to say whatever he ...

Warden’s Attitude

Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Clifford Spiteri Cornish in his Opinion Wardens and parking spaces (TMID, 18 April) submitted a photo of a traffic warden’s vehicle parked in a reserved spot, the only one available late in the morning of 15 April. ...

Proposal To close all pharmacies!

Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Teachers have threatened to take “bulldozer” action by closing all schools the next time a teacher falls victim to violence......

An Innocent cry

Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The resolution passed by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly to guarantee the right of access to a safe and legal abortion is evidence that European lawmakers...

Every Tourist counts

Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

There was a time when the approaching summer brought with it an open debate on the tourism industry – and this was because in those years Malta relied heavily on the number of tourists who visited the islands ...

Universal Human rights

Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

I commend Pope Benedict XVI for his profoundly moving address to the United Nations, which emphasised the need for universal human rights, based on natural law, ...

So Very, very ironic

Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Isn’t it ironic that in the week when hunters were pleading for an open hunting season – denied them because the EU does not want the killing of birds – the Council of Europe decriminalised abortion? ...

To Pair or not to pair

Monday, 21 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

In 2003, the Nationalist Party was propelled back into government with a sound 13,000-vote majority. It had more than a comfortable five-seat majority in Parliament so much so that, unlike in 1998, it could appoint...

Process Completed

Monday, 21 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

The casual elections held to fill the places vacated by the candidates who were elected on two districts brought to an end the process to fill up all parliamentary seats. ...

The EP And the Council of Europe

Monday, 21 April 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

It’s easy to confuse the European Parliament with the Council of Europe: they both have seats in the French city of Strasbourg (literally at a stone’s throw away from each other) ...

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