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If we cannot re-discover our ability to become a helping community it will not...

If we cannot re-discover our ability to become a helping...

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Malta – along with the rest of the world – will...

The gender pay gap is real. We need action

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People owning a dog must have it tagged but people acting as demolition and excavation contractors do not need to have a licence. This glaring anomaly has...

People owning a dog must have it tagged but people acting...

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Does it really have to be that way? Is it so very difficult, to devise a national construction and development policy that really does place the rights of...

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Saviour Balzan

There is an orgy of development today that is unacceptable and simply geared to make more people richer to the extent that their riches are simply unjustifiable

There is an orgy of development today that is unacceptable...

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Attempts to try and make sex workers seem like some kind of empowered, feminist...

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Should former empires return removed relics (and do we get the sword back)?

Charles Xuereb

It is bad enough to find one’s iconic national treasures in global museums, but it is worse to have to pay huge sums of money to private concerns to...

It is bad enough to find one’s iconic national...

Court will use principle of proportionality to determine whether a party can appeal a judgement in parte

Malcolm Mifsud

The court held that since it was a commercial case and the applicant was a Government entity, it could not claim that it would suffer economic...

The court held that since it was a commercial case and...

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OK, so perhaps it was a little naïve of me to expect...

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