12 August 2000 - Underwater nuclear cruiser "Kursk" crashed in the northern part of Russia. Vladimir Putin, who was on vacation in Sochi, was just beginning his presidency. The crash of "Kursk" and...

The Covid-19 situation hit voluntary organisations and NGOs hard, limiting the way they can raise funds. Add to that people working reduced hours, some losing jobs, and many focusing on...

As we near the end of the 2014-2020 funding period, a new funding call seeks to tackle issues of poverty, social exclusion and social dialogue.  The European Social Fund (ESF) is an EU funding...

The experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated the resilience, at different levels, of human endeavour. At the Institutional level, we witnessed excellent co-ordination between the...

The PN has likely dodged a bullet by not hosting major Independence Day activities this year. PN Secretary General Francis Zammit Dimech told The Malta Independent on Sunday that no traditional...

The news that Xarabank, one of the longest running television programmes to grace Maltese television, had been cancelled by the Public Broadcasting Services on Friday was greeted with what seemed to...

Water is a fundamental natural resource that every person needs in order to address their most basic of needs and functions. It also plays a central role in our environment for a healthy...

We have been told, ad nauseam, that the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the most notorious crime in recent memory, has been solved.  They keep telling us that the three suspects were caught and...

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"One has to have a strategic and peripheral vision. A strategic vision is the ability to look ahead. Peripheral vision is the ability to look around. Both are important."  - Carly Fiorina...