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Selling my flat in Malta: a painful saga

Sunday, 2 July 2017, 08:26 Last update: about 10 years ago

This is a tale of the unethical behaviour of an estate agent in the north of the island, and the rather ‘irregular’ practice of a notary chosen by the buyer. For obvious reasons those...

TMID Editorial: PN conservatives cannot play with democracy

Thursday, 29 June 2017, 09:15 Last update: about 10 years ago

Outgoing Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil has acknowledged that “not everyone in the PN agrees with the decision to vote in favour of the gay marriage bill and the issue is a sensitive...

TMID Editorial: The poor always pay the highest price

Monday, 26 June 2017, 09:44 Last update: about 10 years ago

Consider the tremendous catastrophe that occurred in Pakistan early yesterday. A speeding fuel carrier overturned and burst. People came from near and from afar with all kinds of receptacles to carry...

TMIS Editorial: The Second Republic the second time around

Sunday, 25 June 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago

The government, through the President’s traditional ‘speech from the throne’ at yesterday’s opening of the new legislature, pledged that it will begin the process leading to...

Presidentialism

Sunday, 25 June 2017, 08:48 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

At the moment, I am working on some two or three projects, amongst which is the second issue of Malta at the European Court of Human Rights. It should be out in the coming months, the first issue...

Timely Tribute to people’s poet

Sunday, 4 March 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

At the recently refurbished 17th century Razzett tal-Markiz in Mosta, a bust of the late Frans Baldacchino “Il-Budaj” will be unveiled this evening – certainly a timely tribute to the people’s poet less than a year since his sad and sudden demise....

The Need for extended secondary education for (intellectually) disabled people

Sunday, 4 March 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

I am the father of a child with Down’s syndrome. At the moment there is nowhere our children can be sent after Form V to further their education except to a special adult centre the Gardian Angel or Wardija, where they can stay up to the age of 19. ...

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