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Editorial: Chris Cardona: Now what?

Saturday, 11 February 2017, 10:11 Last update: about 11 years ago

As we predicted in yesterday’s editorial, the clrows funding put up by David Thake found it almost ridiculously easy to get people to contribute no less than €69,500 in 36 hours to annul...

Editorial: Vote - 16 The age to vote and the age to contest

Thursday, 9 February 2017, 13:10 Last update: about 11 years ago

Now that 16-year-olds have been given the right to vote in their respective local council elections, it may just be time to start considering giving 16-year-olds the right to also run for office in...

Editorial: Praise where praise is due

Tuesday, 7 February 2017, 09:57 Last update: about 11 years ago

Now that the Malta Summit is over, it is only right that the immense work undertaken at all levels which led to the success of the Summit be acknowledged. From the officers at Air Traffic Control...

Of hypocrisy and deceit

Tuesday, 7 February 2017, 08:20 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Mangion

Hypocrisy generally brings about something with a consequential effect of artificiality. It gives a false appearance of virtue or goodness while concealing the real character or motive. Hypocrisy is...

‘Res Ipsa Loquitur’ – Let the facts speak for themselves

Monday, 6 February 2017, 08:05 Last update: about 11 years ago Anton Refalo

After 25 years in power and having done little to alleviate Gozo’s disadvantages, is what the previous government will probably be remembered for. But now that they are the Opposition, they have...

Editorial: The EU’s lip service to the plight of refugees

Sunday, 5 February 2017, 09:45 Last update: about 11 years ago

EU leaders who convened in Malta on Friday to address the flow of migrants across the central Mediterranean, by and large, paid mere lip service to the awful plight of African migrants trapped in...

Things Always blow up in the faces of control freaks

Sunday, 18 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Yes, they do. And the situation is worse when the control freaks run the country and try to impose their personal views on everybody else, forcing them to live as they think best....

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