The Malta Independent 16 August 2026, Sunday
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A Welcome reform

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Malta’s 15-year local council experience has been at times colourful and at others painful. But, with hindsight, it is undeniable that Malta’s localities have benefited on a number of counts from the adventure....

The Independent Planning watch

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

An application to operate a snack bar at Number 20 A Saqqajja Hill, Mdina was lodged before the Planning Authority. The location of development classifies it as a designated Class B boundary of National Protective Inventory...

Full Circle

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It was exactly 50 years ago when talks started between the then PN government and the British Admiralty for the commercialisation of the Drydocks to safeguard the employment of the 6000 odd workers employed there. ...

Route Development potential: Italy

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Due to high fuel costs, airlines serving Malta have been rationalizing their route network on longer routes. With the shift towards low-cost-carrier style, the “under two flight hour rule” will become more necessary to follow. ...

A Tabloid from a jingoist country

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In his article on The Sun’s tirade on Judge Giovanni Bonello’s ruling regarding the rendition of terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri, David Lindsay stopped short from giving his own comments (TMIS, 10 August). ...

Always Ready to lend a helping hand

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

“Do not worry. Have a look at what is available, and if it’s not there tell me. I will do my best to get it for you.” This is how Joe greeted me when I met him for the very first time. I...

Malta’s Realities are entirely different Ms Laing

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The article by Jacqueline Laing relating to divorce law has, at best, left me baffled (TMIS, 10 August). Obviously, her article was an exercise in trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. ...

It Hurts – but only those without work!

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Reading Alfred Mifsud’s article “It hurts” made me and my family wonder how such a man could write those hurtful words about the dockyard workers. Surely Mr Mifsud never had to work in such dangerous conditions, ...

The Sun, Boobs and the ECHR

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In its tirade against the judges of the European Court of Human Rights who issued an interim order in connection with the case of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, the British tabloid The Sun saw fit to describe all nine judges...

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