Are Relief and low wages the only relief there is?
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
On the same day that we read that our system of social benefits is under review with the intention of perhaps making it worthwhile to work for a low wage, ...
What’s In a number?
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 20 years ago
Malta Independent
It has been a very long wait. It was only in the Government Gazette dated 24 April 2007 that the Ministry for Education, Youth and Employment – responsible for Labour ...
Construction Site regulations
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 20 years ago
Malta Independent
The Minister of Rural Affairs and the Environment has finally unveiled his long-awaited construction site management regulations, which, he says, will afford adjacent areas to construction sites the highest degree of protection; for which we are thankful....
A Fundamentalist saint
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 20 years ago
Malta Independent
Dun Gorg never appealed to me. I associate him with all that is backward and narrow-minded in Maltese Catholicism, and with a set of odd regulations for the members of the society he founded....
Tal-Virtu` Church is deteriorating
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In psalms we read: they have eyes and do not see, they have ears and do not hear....
Public Transport – Service with a smile
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
“Excellent service” was the comment made about the Maltese public transport by four French group leaders. They were accompanying 42 students from the ...
Freedom Of expression versus religious sentiment
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Doesn’t Daphne Caruana Galizia believe that if Rebecca Gomperts comes to Malta to speak in favour of abortion she would be offending the majority of the Maltese who are Roman Catholics? ...
Thoughts Of a foster carer
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
I would like to share some thoughts with your readers regarding the Foster Care Bill that is being put through Parliament at present. ...
Stubborn Realities
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
As the prospects of the next general election loom larger on Malta’s political horizon, the electoral pulse begins to beat faster at the prospect of a confrontation between politicians and the sovereign electorate....