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TMID Editorial: The Mediterranean graveyard

Friday, 28 October 2022, 09:31 Last update: about 5 years ago

29,000 lives. That’s how many died while making the migration journey to Europe since 2014, the author report by the International Organization for Migration said. 29,000 people leaving families...

TMID Editorial: Cutting funds where it hurts

Thursday, 27 October 2022, 09:56 Last update: about 5 years ago

As from November, the government will stop giving funds to the Richmond Foundation to run is 24/7 mental health helpline. The service has helped hundreds of people who needed comfort and...

TMID Editorial: Infrastructural hiatus

Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 10:34 Last update: about 5 years ago

No new major infrastructural projects were announced in the budget, and the omission of others on which there was so much public discussion in the past years likely means that they are no longer a...

TMID Editorial: Trying to keep the country afloat

Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 09:50 Last update: about 5 years ago

The impact of Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine on economies around the world is there for all to see. It is a difficult time, when prices and inflation are rising internationally and also...

TMID Editorial: Budget day

Monday, 24 October 2022, 10:54 Last update: about 5 years ago

Today is budget day. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana will head to Parliament and unveil the government’s proposed measures for next year. Over the past weeks unions, employers organisations,...

TMIS Editorial - Robert Arrigo: A gentle man and a gentleman

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 11:15 Last update: about 5 years ago

Malta yesterday paid its last respects to Robert Arrigo, a former deputy leader of the Nationalist Party, whose death sparked an outpouring of sorrow that transcended the political borders of a...

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Greed is good… for some

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 10:20 Last update: about 5 years ago

Last week I had an impromptu chat with an old friend. We go back to our childhood and our parents were friends way before we were even thought of. The subject of our natter was greed. My friend,...

Valuable Diversity

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 09:18 Last update: about 5 years ago

Every time I am asked to write something about myself, I immediately come face to face with the other half of my life which I lived in Jordan, where I was born and spent my influential years. Many of...

Under the surface

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 09:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The author was born in Ceylon, today Sri Lanka, in 1943 and immigrated to Montreal Canada when he was 19 years old. He is best known for his lyrical The English Patient (1992) which was turned...

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