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Editorial: A not too fond farewell to criminal libel

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 11:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

With Parliament reconvening tomorrow and with the government planning, as one of its first acts of the new parliamentary season, to abolish the legal concept of criminal libel, we would like to bid a...

Incubating Paceville… Looking at the bigger picture

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Chris Borg

The devil is in the detail, the sceptics keep saying. But by starting with a master plan for Paceville, we are effectively incubating one area and carefully following its development, with a view to...

Close to the people I serve

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 09:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Justyne Caruana

We should all be pleased that our work for the elderly has also received international validation. Only a few months ago, the European Union Active Ageing Index showed Malta registering an improved...

Grammar school mentality

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

A few days ago, your contributor Salvu Mallia wrote: “We still find ourselves, after 50 years of independence, rooted in the grammar school system mentality of the British Empire, geared to...

Research on Renaissance paintings

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

I am a third year student at the University of Malta reading for a History of Art Honours degree. I am currently doing research on Renaissance paintings in the Maltese Islands for my undergraduate...

Sustaining Sports Tourism

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Anton Refalo

Last year and the current one are proving to be excellent years for tourism for Malta. The resulting optimism surrounding our tourism industry has been confirmed by several reports and statistics...

Blood Out of stone

Saturday, 17 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The recent open declaration by the Governor of the Central Bank, to the effect that the underlying weaknesses afflicting Malta “are the result of government policy in the l990s, when growth was fuelled by government expenditure”, ...

The Watchdog of local council activities

Saturday, 17 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Ombudsman report on the role of the executive secretary in local councils runs diametrically opposite to what Labour has suggested in its pronouncements and documents. ...

Reversing The trend

Saturday, 17 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

So much food for thought emerged from the two speeches delivered during a business lunch organised by the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association last Wednesday....

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