The Iron Lady of Europe
Sunday, 20 August 2017, 08:35
Last update: about 9 years ago
Five weeks before Germany's parliamentary elections, the Iron Lady of Germany and Europe, Angela Merkel, has been jolted with an opinion poll showing a 10 percentage point slide in her personal...
An important anniversary to celebrate
Sunday, 20 August 2017, 08:34
Last update: about 9 years ago
Seventy-five years ago, precisely on 30th June, 1942, in the middle of the Second World War II, Saint Leopold Mandic died in Padua. Saint Leopold became known as the Apostle of Confession and of...
TMID Editorial: Environment - Saving our valleys
Friday, 18 August 2017, 09:28
Last update: about 10 years ago
Partit Demokratiku this week said 70 valleys should be listed as public domain areas, meaning they would be afforded special protection status. This is a very sensible and necessary thing to do....
TMID Editorial: Migration - Listen to the voice of the people
Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 08:51
Last update: about 10 years ago
We may not be paying enough attention to what the people out there are saying. Let us take some opinions, or reactions, from people who wrote in comments on our own website over the recent...
Using SMS technology to reduce waiting lists
Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 08:31
Last update: about 10 years ago
Chris Fearne
In 2016 some 497,399 patients were seen at the out-patients department at the various clinics at Mater Dei Hospital. Government is committed to continue reducing waiting lists for these clinics, as...
TMID Editorial: Life after Fitch
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 09:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
Two extremely important statements made by the credit rating agency Fitch in its report, which saw an upgrade in Malta’s sovereign credit rating from A to A+ with a stable outlook, have been...
Opinion: The PN must be the People’s Party - Alex Perici Calascione
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 09:25
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alex Perici Calascione
The Nationalist Party’s policies must be targeted towards the people. This must be our mission. Only if we stay close to the people can we understand their needs and devise policies that improve...
Open Spaces in Attard
Friday, 2 March 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Open spaces are constantly under attack. In spite of all the rhetoric about the importance of the family by their party, prominent PN candidates in Attard had proposed the bulldozing of a pedestrian area next to the church to turn it into a parking area...
No To a referendum on divorce
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The Maltese idea of democracy is stuck with the popular vote and majority rule – in other words, it is restricted to parliamentary democracy in the narrowest sense of the word...