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Editorial: A million besieged

Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 09:50 Last update: about 9 years ago

The UN humanitarian chief says conditions in Syrian rebel-held eastern Aleppo have gone "from terrible to terrifying and now barely survivable." Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council on...

Editorial: From one end of the world to the other

Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 09:47 Last update: about 9 years ago

The prime minister has become a sort of a globe-trotter. One day he is here, the next he is there. In recent days he has spanned the world’s continents: holding a conference in New York one...

Art exhibition at Siggiewi medieval chapel

Monday, 21 November 2016, 12:09 Last update: about 9 years ago

The Siggiewi Heritage Foundation is organizing an art exhibition at the medieval Chapel dedicated to the Assumption of Our Lady at the hamlet of Hal-Xluq within the limits of Siggiewi.  Some of...

Editorial: A lost opportunity

Monday, 21 November 2016, 09:45 Last update: about 9 years ago

Today Dr. Toni Abela will join his long time friend and political partner Judge Wenzu Mintoff. He will be appointed to serve on the bench.  On a personal level we congratulate Judge Abela on his...

Diversifying tourism facilities

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 10:00 Last update: about 9 years ago George M Mangion

Since the early sixties when the government of the day wanted to encourage the birth of an indigenous tourist industry many pristine sites were granted to constructors and nascent home grown hoteliers...

Gozo getting what it deserves

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:45 Last update: about 9 years ago Anton Refalo

Once, someone said that happiness can be defined as consumption divided by desire. If you put desire at zero, then happiness, potentially, is infinite. The nature of men (and women) is such that the...

The Loss of the lira

Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

As I was involved in Maltese tourism for several decades I have enjoyed the privilege of seeing Malta achieve Independence and watched as through good housekeeping, at one time to the point of frugality...

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