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Upside down

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:42 Last update: about 8 years ago

PM Joseph Muscat has announced that the government will be launching the biggest open space project in a generation. That’s all well and good, but should it not be the other way around? Should...

The invincible force of the Divine Mercy

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:42 Last update: about 8 years ago

Today, the Second Sunday of Easter, the Universal Church celebrates with great joy and hope the Divine Mercy. Liturgically, this Sunday is called Divine Mercy Sunday. On Divine Mercy Sunday, a...

‘Miraculous’ statues

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:40 Last update: about 8 years ago

Every year, during ‘Holy Week’, we are regaled with stories of the ‘miraculous’ statue of the ‘ecce homo’ in Valletta  and the ‘miraculous’...

The Bamboo School

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:39 Last update: about 8 years ago

I would like to say a big Thank You to the Mission Fund (Malta) for their recent very generous financial support for our work at ‘The Bamboo School’ in the West of Thailand, very near the...

Jobs: figures don’t lie

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:10 Last update: about 8 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In the light of Workers’ Day, various aspects of employment in Malta have recently been put under the spotlight. Meanwhile a series of statistics have been published which are quite worrying and...

A nation of winners

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 09:04 Last update: about 8 years ago Justyne Caruana

A country that can boast of steady economic strengths and the highest rate of employment for decades, is the home of a hard-working and winning nation that can pump money back into the economy as a...

Malta’s champagne socialism

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 08:54 Last update: about 8 years ago

It becomes ever more obvious that the Labour Party in Malta is transforming itself into the Champagne Socialist Party. This week, Joseph Muscat’s statement that Maltese workers should aspire to...

TMID Editorial: Muscat-Delia - A tale of two leaders

Friday, 3 May 2019, 10:15 Last update: about 8 years ago

The country is in full election mode, as the political parties edge towards two elections – European Parliament and local councils – in the middle of Joseph Muscat’s second term in...

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