The Malta Independent 17 August 2026, Monday
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How Can we forget?

Saturday, 22 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I do hope that the leaders of the free trade unions, better known as the unions tac-cekcik, have taken the message. In fact, instead of sending a message to the government, ...

Check The facts before spinning

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

From Mr N. HamiltonYour columnist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, should really be more careful and check her facts before rushing into print as she did last Sunday. ...

Petitions On Ulysses Lodge

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

From Mr J. AgiusThe Ramblers Association of Malta has followed the statements made by Alternattiva Demokratika, ...

Mepa’s Reforms

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

From Mr A. CamilleriJoe Felice Pace, the well-known analytical writer, deserves to be congratulated for his intelligent article in “Talking point” (ToM, 16 October). ...

Contradictions And contra-indications

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Last Monday we all waited with bated breath for Dr J. Muscat’s speech on the Budget in Parliament. Hot on the heels of Sunday’s “not so national ‘manifestation’”, ...

Still Can’t get it

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Try as I may, I still can’t understand what the government is trying to achieve with Budget 2009. I was hoping that the Prime Minister’s reply to the criticism of the Opposition would somehow illuminate, but really the ...

J’accuse: The Jungle Book

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Baloo, Bagheera and Shere KhanI’m back in Malta for some unfinished business (and a fantastic one-on-one course in emotional intelligence) and notwithstanding the rain, the ...

Requiem For a tree

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

There was this old mulberry tree in Mgarr Road, Ghajnsielem. It was a nice old tree, gnarled branches and all. But when the contractor commissioned by our government remade the road with European funds, this precious tree was cut down....

A National disgrace on Remembrance Sunday

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

I hold no brief for Joseph Muscat but to label a ‘manifestation’ as “a national disgrace” just because it was held on Remembrance Sunday is a bit excessive....

Revision? Compensation? No, Growth

Sunday, 16 November 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Revision or Compensation - so shouted the crowds that flocked to Valletta on Friday. The way they saw it, or were made to see it, that was how it should be: the government must either revise the electricity rates structure or else ....

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