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Of fools and angels

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 14:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Michael Asciak

Minister Owen Bonnici is on record as saying that the government is considering changing the IVF (actually Embryo Protection) Act in order to allow homosexual couples to have children. The current Act...

Dynamics of the gun in Libya

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Mohamed Mufti

For the last four years, the Libyans, who by all reasonable criteria are pleasant, decent and moderate folk, have suffered the deceits and vagaries of its political elite. The plundering of national...

Commitment is our real publicity

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 10:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Inaugurations are basically the middle step between the initial consultations, the necessary planning and the actual supply of services required – the line of action for any team managing an...

The spies who love him

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Clyde Puli

This government is not completely against spying. It just distinguishes between spies who love it and those who don’t. In fact, information leaks that complement the work of the Department of...

A double blow to the police force’s trust rating

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 09:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

The public’s trust rating in the police force has this week suffered a double-blow: one in the form of an officer’s confidential personal file having been leaked straight from the police...

An angry Prime Minister is a sorry sight

Saturday, 27 June 2015, 09:20 Last update: about 10 years ago

The direct broadcast of Parliamentary sittings online and on TV has become a real game-changer in Maltese politics. The first taste of the Maltese counterpart to Prime Minister’s question time...

Maltese adaptability

Friday, 26 June 2015, 09:06 Last update: about 10 years ago

Visitors to Malta and those who live abroad and follow what happens here never fail to be impressed by a quality that is to be found in abundance among the Maltese – the way they adapt to...

Malta, The EU and mass immigration

Monday, 22 January 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

It would be fair to comment that the European Union has so far helped Malta in all the material assistance necessary that, unfortunately, has the net effect of keeping the problem of irregular immigration on Maltese ...

Reflection Pause over

Monday, 22 January 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made things very clear when she addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg last Wednesday....

Ostriches And HIV

Monday, 22 January 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

I write in reply to Marisa Micallef’s article Bird flu or AIDS (TMID, 15 January), in which she states that the Maltese are among the least well-informed about AIDS and HIV and that “the powers to be want it to stay that way.”...

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