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The voice of the people

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Although the Planning Authority (PA) had initally turned down the St Julian’s Local Council invitation to participate in its public consultation meeting, last Monday the PA finally found the...

Thank you from Georgia

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

We, the Buhagiar family, from the second Neochatecumenal community of the Parish of Mosta, have been living here, with our children in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the past 11 years.  We would like to...

Political Augustinianism

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

In the past days I received a personal invitation from the Augustinian Institute in Pietà, the Maltese Augustinian Province, the Faculty of Theology of the University of Malta and the Malta...

Life is short

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald from the original Persian, is marked with a sense of urgency about the transient nature of life. The...

Liberalise transport between the Islands

Sunday, 13 November 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

As was done in all sectors: air travel, retail sector, etc. There are no remaining monopolies except, unbelievably, the Gozo Channel.  Dr Alfred Sant is reported to have said that EU rules...

Editorial: The correspondent bank crisis is suddenly news

Saturday, 12 November 2016, 10:12 Last update: about 11 years ago

Undiscussed up till some days ago, the correspondent bank crisis is now the talk of the town. The contemporaneous visit to New York by the prime minister, the finance minister, the MFSA chairman,...

Wreath-laying ceremony at Kalkara Naval Cemetery

Friday, 11 November 2016, 17:31 Last update: about 11 years ago

The Royal Naval Officers’ Association - Malta, held a memorial service and wreath-laying ceremony at the Kalkara Naval (Capuchins) cemetery on Armistice Day, Friday 11th November 2016. The...

Editorial: Clean-up appeal

Friday, 11 November 2016, 08:56 Last update: about 11 years ago

Predictably the appeal made by Silvio Schembri MP in Parliament on Tuesday night did not even register with the Maltese public.  The hour was late, the papers closed, and most probably many...

Editorial: Mysterious intrusions in national healthcare

Tuesday, 8 November 2016, 09:18 Last update: about 11 years ago

What is being done in diverse areas of the national healthcare is very strange. Strange and mysterious. As in specific areas of the national governance, we seem to have learned first of the...

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