Learning and training – key tools for serving
Sunday, 10 January 2016, 09:49
Last update: about 10 years ago
Justyne Caruana
The training and re-training of all the staff involved in the care of the elderly has been a major task on my agenda since taking office. I constantly insist that the services provided must be of the...
There’s a rat in the kitchen
Sunday, 10 January 2016, 09:45
Last update: about 10 years ago
One couldn’t help immediately smelling a rat in the New Year’s televised kitchen drama. It was strikingly artificial, insincere and certainly undignified for an address to the nation by a...
Accountability: A strategic and deliberate exit
Saturday, 9 January 2016, 07:56
Last update: about 10 years ago
Justice Minister Owen Bonnici yesterday paid a visit to the new Law Enforcement System Agency to mark its first 100 days of operation. What should have been a routine press conference turned into...
Jobs: Things finally looking up for Europe
Friday, 8 January 2016, 07:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
Figures issued by Eurostat yesterday showed that the Eurozone is finally recovering and that the jobless rate is the lowest that it has been in the past four years. However, the overall...
Road safety: Another year, yet another statistic
Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 08:45
Last update: about 10 years ago
Another tragedy claimed the life of a young motorcyclist yesterday after she was hit by a truck in Lija. She was only 27-years-old. She was the first person to die on Maltese roads this year. But it...
How to undermine trust
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 09:11
Last update: about 10 years ago
Reference is being made to the editorial carried on the 30 December entitled “How to undermine trust”, particularly in the part where it states: “It was quite predictable that...
Culture: Our penchant for the over the top
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 08:07
Last update: about 10 years ago
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has been criticised from a number of quarters for the length of his New Year’s message, as well as the cost of the slick, yet over the top video. On New...
Let’s All pretend
Sunday, 21 January 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The government appears to be pleased that the European Commission has worked out a way to accommodate Malta’s objection to the divorce plans, and hence the threat to block them. ...