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Assume Oil at $200 a barrel

Sunday, 6 July 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Seeing the vertiginous ascent of oil prices over the past months, it just makes no sense to talk about coping with today’s oil prices. One may as well assume that sometime over the coming months, oil will touch the $200 a barrel mark....

Noise Pollution

Sunday, 6 July 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It is 43 minutes past midnight and I am forced to sit up in my bed and type out this letter. The bass of an open-air disco at Gianpula has been drilling into my head for the past five or six hours....

Post-graduate Specialisation

Sunday, 6 July 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In a sober letter to The Times (1 July), Professor Godfrey Laferla, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, set out in objective and succinct fashion the state of post-graduate medical training in Malta....

Prices Crisis

Sunday, 6 July 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We are experiencing phenomenal price increases that have possibly overshadowed any recollection of price hikes in our collective memory and the discussion regarding the challenges we face is just starting to pick up steam. ...

Residents’ Rights

Saturday, 5 July 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Last week, a group of Lija residents filed an application in court against the Lija mayor over the excessive volume of traffic that is allowed to transit from their streets. ...

Old Labour Tones

Saturday, 5 July 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

That comments such as those made in the article A sorry ride down broken promises made (TMID, 2 July) would come from a Labour MP is no surprise. But from Michael Falzon? ...

Ouch! That Was some increase!

Saturday, 5 July 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

That hurts! So we are going to have to pay that much more for the water and power surcharge. We will have to find so much more money to settle the inflated Water Services and Enemalta bill....

Those Paid up members of the PN...

Monday, 30 June 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

…never have a say in electing their own leaders. They are called paid-up members of the Nationalist Party because that is exactly what they do ...

Tackling Immigration

Monday, 30 June 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It was only a matter of time.After a number of weeks in which irregular migrants trickled in, one boat at a time, in groups of 27-28, the clear skies and calm sea of the second part ...

The MLP And the EU

Monday, 30 June 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

The Party of European Socialists (PES) issues regular newsletters and to mark Europe Day on 9 May, PES leaders Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Zita Gurmai correctly identified the need for a debate on the future direction of the EU. ...

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