The Malta Independent 16 August 2026, Sunday
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Reflections on a unique education system

Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

It is unique because nowhere in Europe do teachers have as much holidays as they do in Malta. Even Minister Bartolo admitted this lately. For example, in every EU country the academic year starts in...

Time for change

Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:31 Last update: about 10 years ago

It has been two weeks since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder. Horror has turned to anger, and that anger is now turning into a realisation that as a nation we are utterly immature. In the wake of...

Less a corps than a corpse

Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:30 Last update: about 10 years ago

Let us put aside for a moment, and for our collective sanity, any suggestion that Daphne's gruesome end was the result of a political hatchet job and lean to the only alternative that it was a...

Fuel money

Sunday, 5 November 2017, 08:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

An opportunity to get a glimpse at the world’s petrol prices for the period 2007 - 2017 is available in the July issue of the Italian motor enthusiast’s magazine ‘Quatroruote’...

TMID Editorial: Daphne’s murder - Not a final farewell

Saturday, 4 November 2017, 08:19 Last update: about 10 years ago

Daphne Caruana Galizia may have been laid to rest yesterday, the country may have had its national day of mourning, and well wishers may have paid their final respects.  But the fact of the...

Opinion: Mob rule vs the rule of law - Kevin Aquilina

Thursday, 2 November 2017, 12:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Kevin Aquilina

Ongoing public vociferous calls for the resignation of the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Police by the Nationalist Party and civil society organisations raises the issue of mob rule versus...

We Are the Church

Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Joseph Zammit’s letter entitled An uphill task for the Church (TMID, 3 March) is factual, but Mr Zammit’s attitude lacks conviction. ...

Talking Of an election mode

Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

While the Nationalist media tried to give us the impression that during Xarabank, the PM committed himself to a 2008 general election, although I followed his words carefully...

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