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Back To the future!

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It’s 2008 and a new Labour government has just been formed. The Labour supporters are over the moon, honking horns and singing praises to their leader Dr Alfred Sant! ...

Two Weights and two measures?

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Following the recent press statements issued by Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar and the Ramblers Association opposing our club’s application for swimming facilities in Marsalforn,...

All That glitters is not gold…

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

What is the use of having a state-of-the-art hospital, with polished marble floors and shiny walls, if a seven-year-old is kept waiting for six hours to have an X-Ray taken? ...

Denying Us our say

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

With regard to the European Union, we already had our say in March and April of 2003 when we decided to join. ...

Daphne’s Dilemma

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s article last week must surely have been the most panic-stricken article she has ever penned, and I cannot understand why....

From Quarries to a golf course and some

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In spring of 2007, in the early morning, I was hiking near Qala quarries in Gozo and walked east towards Qala Fort (Il- Fortin) or St Anthony’s Fort. This fort was built in 1732 and dominates Ras Il-Qala (Qala’s Head), a neglected tourist jewel....

Scaremongering Spin doctors and questionable articles

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

I write in the light of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s defeatist article (TMIS, 27 January), which maintains that disgruntled Nationalists, floating voters and so on should vote for the PN simply...

Of Bambini, bags and belts

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Here are a few questions for you.In what country are young schoolchildren seen waiting for their normally bright red mini vans at 6.30 in the morning?...

Twisted Words of ‘gutter contributors’

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Mr Buttigieg from Mellieha, conveniently, does not quote my article where I wrote: “Are we expecting people not to criticise the ideas of a learned person like Dr Sant, just because he is in bed convalescing?...

Xemxija: AD’s Pivotal role in the EU

Sunday, 3 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

I refer to Nancy Kampschuur’s letter regarding the destruction of the former Mistra Village Complex in Xemxija, St Paul ‘s Bay (TMIS, 6 January). ...

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