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Dangerous directional sign

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

A few years ago a signpost with Safi 3 Km. was placed at the end of a road that connects Safi to Hal Far road where the runway ends, limits of tal-Gawhar. This is only 3ft high and therefore at eye...

Skyscrapers and sunless apartments

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

In Malta, the sun rises in the east around Delimara and completes its trajectory when it sinks in a glorious sunset over the horizon beyond the northern part of Dingli Cliffs. A daily occurrence which...

‘Sic transit gloria mundi’

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Mr John Guillaumier has never really lost his acerbic irreverent take on people who do not share his opinions, but now he has plummeted to new lows in his extremely base crack against the clergy. His...

Thank you Mission Fund

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

I would like to thank the Mission Fund for the generous donation of €4000 that will help poor families on the outskirts of Tirana and in other areas of our diocese. These are mostly families...

Two albatrosses around Leo’s neck

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Some three weeks ago, Astrid Vella of Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, during a protest rally against the proposed towers that are to shoot up some 40-plus storeys into the Sliema sky, made a very serious...

Protecting Balluta valley

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

It seems that, as with most areas in Malta, the only open views soon to be left to admire on this small island will be the sea views from the top of high-rise buildings which are being proposed for...

A road with no name

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

One of the oldest roads in Safi that once connected Kirkop and Safi to Birzebugia still has no name. There are two historical places on this street –the Roman Tower known as Tal-Gawhar and the...

Clinton's determined struggle with Donald Trump

Sunday, 14 August 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

According to last week's Gallup poll, Hillary Clinton was the woman Americans admired most for 14 straight years. But her presidential campaign and the controversy over her use of a private email...

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