The Malta Independent 5 June 2024, Wednesday
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The Maltese house that Clinton built and Trump just blew down

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Ivan Grech Mintoff

Politics is a hard game. It is dirty and very rough. It is undemocratic, full of lies and much misinformation. Eliminating your opponent by all means possible and not allowing him to get his message...

Social inclusion high on Malta's EU agenda

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:15 Last update: about 9 years ago Justyne Caruana

There is no better satisfaction for policy-makers than seeing their policies and strategies they plan yield the desired results. Time and again during the past months we have witnessed repeated...

Martyrdom

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

Ours is absolutely an age of martyrs. Many people, especially Christians, are brutally killed for confessing their Christian faith. In his audience with pilgrims from El Salvador soon after the...

ECO reduction workings clarified

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

During the programme ‘Il-Polz taċ-Ċittadin’ aired on RTK on Friday 21 November, a citizen asked how the ECO reduction is computed. For the benefit of this citizen and other...

Faith is still indispensable

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

I am writing this letter mainly for two reasons. Firstly, to vindicate the policy of this paper to publish letters on opinions the editor may disagree with but still defends the sender’s...

Donald Trump and his chrysalis

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

Donald Trump, having defied received electoral wisdom, won the US Presidential election and is now in the chrysalis stage as ‘President-elect’. As a result, the world is waiting to see if...

Supporting the disabled

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

The group Ħbieb tal-Aġenzija Sapport welcomes the measure announced in the last budget where people with a disability who cannot work will be entitled to a pension equivalent to the national...

The Nationalist Party and the natural environment

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

While forcefully opposing development at Zonqor Point, the Nationalist Party then came out in favour of the race track being proposed at Siggiewi which will gobble up more than 700 tumoli of virgin...

Editorial: We have no redundancy (2)

Saturday, 19 November 2016, 09:38 Last update: about 9 years ago

On Friday 28th October, this paper reflected on the closure of the Malta International Airport the day of the crash of the French private plane and stated that the closure of the whole airport shows...

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