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Qormi local council has presented plans to build an underpass crossing the Mrieħel bypass, saying its alternative to the governments flyover proposal would “not take up one centimetre of agricultural land”.  The council has risen to the challenge of proposing an option to the project that would eat up “a minimum of 14 tumoli of fields”, said Qormi mayor Josef Masini Vento. Transport Minister Ian Borg had told him and his councillors he would consider alternatives and the local counci...

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[WATCH] PN leader calls out partisan use of national broadcaster by government Nationalist leader says country should concentrate on ensuring the national broadcaster is truly impartial rather than closing down party owned stations 24 January 2021, 2:34pm by Karl Azzopardi Nationalist leader Bernard Grech has called out the use of the national broadcaster as tool by government for partisan intentions. Speaking during a political event in Nadur, Gozo, the opposition leader was reacting to a TVM...

Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech is calling in all his MPs for one-on-one meetings as he maps out a reshuffle of his shadow Cabinet

Increasing women MPs: accelerating history With 95 votes to her name before being eliminated, entrepreneur and Labour candidate Marion Mizzi would have made it to parliament in 2017 if the gender corrective mechanism was applied. Kurt Sansone explains how 18 January 2021, 4:22pm by Kurt Sansone The gender corrective mechanism being debated in parliament is intended to boost the number of MPs of the under-represented sex by a maximum of 12 Parliament would have ended up with 79 seats after the ...

The story of energy policy in Malta is one of incompetence, mismanagement, of allegations of graft, corruption and of smoking guns. It is a story of the infamous ‘oil scandal’ and of changes in laws to favour the oil agents’ lobby during the Nationalist’s governments’ reign

“I’m barely getting any sleep…”. I guess I’d complain of insomnia, too, were a government agency to suddenly appear on my doorstep waving a piece of paper, telling me a road will be passing through my fields, through my water reservoir, through my peace of mind; through my life. This, for some families in Qormi/Mrieħel, was Christmas 2020 – if you want, a sort of sick cherry on the particularly dark cake that was last year. Instead of looking forward to some rest after another year...

Anthony Manduca pays tribute to some of the prominent Maltese people who died this year.  Cardinal Prospero Grech, died on December 30, 2019, aged 94. The Augustinian scholar who became the second cardinal in Maltese history was one of 22 cardinals appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in February 2012. Once described as “possibly the most intelligent man alive” by English priest Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in an article in the Catholic Herald, Cardinal Grech served as a professor at the Augustine ...

It’s been a tough year. That’s a perfect blanket phrase which thousands of us, irrespective of our backgrounds or life choices, will identify with. Most of us are looking forward to the day when we’ll be free of restrictions, anxieties, maybe even responsibilities. Others have had it even worse: from victims of domestic violence to the homeless, the unemployed and the unemployed-to-be. The year of COVID-19 has been tragic under a number of aspects, more so when it comes to the lost virtue...