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The secret of happiness

Sunday, 11 October 2015, 09:04 Last update: about 12 years ago

The sweetness of her name shows the inner sweetness of her heart. Hers was not the sensual sweetness which is manipulated by the pathological way of seeking and giving love in...

World Mental Health Day: People should not suffer in silence

Saturday, 10 October 2015, 08:18 Last update: about 12 years ago

Today is World Mental Health Day. When most people think of this commemorative day, their mind tends to go towards those people who have some form of a mental or intellectual disability. But the truth...

Traffic: We must plan for the long-term future

Friday, 9 October 2015, 11:08 Last update: about 12 years ago

It is most certainly time to plan for the future. Malta needs a long-term traffic management plan. Aside from the usual stop gap measures, such as building flyovers, underpasses and incentivising...

Traffic congestion: Beyond perception and beyond politics

Thursday, 8 October 2015, 11:27 Last update: about 12 years ago

The justice minister, standing in for the travelling transport minister during Tuesday’s surprise parliamentary debate on the national traffic plague, had the good sense to acknowledge that the...

Safety: We are always wise in hindsight

Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 09:43 Last update: about 12 years ago

The charity event Paqpaqli ghal istrina quickly turned into a nightmare as a car tore through a flimsy set of barricades and into a throng of people. 26 people were injured, five of them critically,...

Parliament: The House convenes again

Monday, 5 October 2015, 09:44 Last update: about 12 years ago

After a rather inordinate Summer Recess, the House of Representatives reconvenes again this evening. We had got rather used to silence from that part of the nation, and, before that, we had got...

Think Pink this October

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 09:40 Last update: about 12 years ago

It’s October, which means people and places everywhere are ‘going pink’ for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And beyond the tragedy of breast cancer and the lives it affects and ends...

Cruelty To animals

Thursday, 18 January 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I fully agree with the suggestion in your editorial Cruelty to Animals (TMID, 16 January) that the people behind the brutal killing of the three tal-fenek dogs should be given “a harsh sentence to act as a deterrent against similar action”...

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