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Mixing Languages

Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

It is often that we hear people speaking half English and half Maltese, mixing the two languages even in mid-sentences or putting in a word from the latter language while predominantly using the former....

What Would have happened?

Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

In 1970 the official price of Saudi crude oil was fixed at 1.80 dollars per barrel. During the last days, more problems in Nigeria increased concerns over supply, with prices breaching 126 dollars per barrel....

Half The story

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

What Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said when he launched the pre-budget consultation period last Wednesday must have escaped the unions –...

Football In England

Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Two English premier league clubs have made it to the final of the Champions League this year. There were three English teams in the semi-finals. ...

Big Fuss

Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

The Malta Labour Party is making such a big fuss because the former Nationalist Party information officer has been appointed as head of communications in the Prime Minister’s Office....

Generous Donation

Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

May I take the opportunity of your newspaper to heartily thank the Mission Fund for the generous donation which I had received for our Mission in Tunis....

The Summer waves

Monday, 12 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

No one can forget the iconic photograph that circulated around the world last summer, both through email and in the world’s media – that of two tourists lapping up the sun on a beach while a dead body slowly bobbed ...

Mobile Phones on aircraft

Monday, 12 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Yes, in today’s world we cannot live without mobiles phones.But, in reply to your leader “Silence, please” (TMID, 9 May) I would like to point out that the use of mobile phones should continue to be restricted ...

Pleasantly Surprised

Monday, 12 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I was pleasantly surprised to read that although there were some hiccups in the launch of the door-to-door collection of waste for recycling, residents of Attard responded in such a positive way that the amount of ...

An Open letter to the Minister of Justice

Sunday, 11 May 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Recent events and my own experience, past and present, of people in the pyrotechnic community justify generalisation. Such individuals are like either hands washing one another clean or hands trying to crush one another. ...

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