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Peace as a by-product of free, and prudent, democratic elections

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 08:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Douglas W. Kmiec

My fondness for all things Maltese is unabated and well-known. Sometimes I feel as if I should sign on with tenor Joseph Calleja and break out in song on random Air Malta flights: "O sole mio...". (By...

40 years of Father’s Day

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 08:40 Last update: about 10 years ago

After the introduction in Malta of Mother's Day in 1961, which I had introduced during the children's programmes, there was a gap of many years before many appreciated that fathers also play an...

The people’s choice is my mission

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 08:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

"Politics is the art of the possible and the attainable, but most of all it is the way to the next best time for the country". This wise saying by German statesman Otto Von Bismarck perfectly...

A Trinitarian life vision

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 08:36 Last update: about 10 years ago

In his 51st World Day of Social Communications message of this year, which was celebrated on May 28, Pope Francis wrote something very peculiar regarding life. "Life is not...

The most dangerous man in the world

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 08:34 Last update: about 10 years ago

The other day, someone in our group asked: "At this particular moment in time, who, do you think, is the most dangerous man in the world?' Jokingly, a friend whispered: "The unbeatable Joseph...

The facts must come out!

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

I am sad that so many people have to go begging for a government job because our educational system is still producing people with no skills at all. But good luck to them because this is part of their...

Post mortem

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 10 years ago Clyde Puli

It is a week since the result of the election became known. It is still in the very recent past, but a few days' distance ensures that the raw emotions - those that do not allow you to think and...

TMID Editorial: New cabinet - The good, the bad and the ugly

Saturday, 10 June 2017, 09:21 Last update: about 10 years ago

Joseph Muscat made a wise move by appointing all but two of the elected PL MPs to Cabinet - Silvio Grixti and Alex Muscat - in what is obviously a manoeuvre to eliminate any chances of future dissent...

Succeeding As one

Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Achieving targets is the ultimate satisfaction for all of us in all areas and in all aspects: every businessperson sets goals for his or her investment...

Divide And rule

Sunday, 25 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Somehow, I don’t think the deputy prime minister is being given enough to do. It’s either that, or he is adopting a strategy of divide and rule. First he generated divisive chaos by campaigning to have abortion slotted into the Constitution. ...

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