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Overlapping of duties

Tuesday, 6 April 2021, 07:11 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmelo Abela

Recently I read with interest a Malta Independent editorial describing the current cabinet as having overlapping duties. The Independent’s argument is that a large cabinet leads to an overlap of...

TMID Editorial: Migration - The importance of solidarity

Monday, 5 April 2021, 10:06 Last update: about 6 years ago

While stressing Malta’s obligation to provide people rescued at sea who are disembarked in the country with access to the asylum procedure (for those seeking asylum) and accommodation in...

Planning the future

Monday, 5 April 2021, 09:40 Last update: about 6 years ago

The past year felt like a decade for some. But for technology, it can be described as the new renaissance.  The technologies seeping out of labs, which have been brewing for the past years,...

TMIS Editorial: Statesmanship

Sunday, 4 April 2021, 10:55 Last update: about 6 years ago

This country has reached the stage where we have daily revelations of more and more mafia-style practices right at the heart of Government.  Never in our less-than-pure history have we plumbed...

The race against time

Sunday, 4 April 2021, 07:46 Last update: about 6 years ago Timothy Alden

Give or take a couple of years, the scientific consensus is that the world has about a decade left to effect a radical transformation in our energy systems and economies to prevent a climate...

Prejudice and social justice

Sunday, 4 April 2021, 07:44 Last update: about 6 years ago Justyne Caruana

'Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other — that my liberty depends on you being free too.'  - Barack Obama  On the occasion of Freedom Day, Prime Minister...

TMID Editorial: As the lockdown comes to an end

Saturday, 3 April 2021, 09:45 Last update: about 6 years ago

On the 13th March, we clamoured editorially for a circuit-breaker lockdown of three to five weeks – and the government duly obliged. Ever since, the results have been there for all to see. In...

The Upper Room’s most precious gifts

Thursday, 1 April 2021, 13:02 Last update: about 6 years ago

One of the most significant and moving moments of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a visit to the Cenacle, or Upper Room, on Mount Sion in Jerusalem, where Christ instituted the most precious gifts of...

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