Editorial Pull the other leg, Mr. Minister MaltaToday campaign One big happy family Being brought up in an orphanage might not sound like the best start in life. But as the Mother Superior at the Ursuline Convent explained to NADINE BRINCAT, there’s plenty of love to go round Opinion Poor Buskett If we don’t begin looking after our wonderful woodlands better, we might end up getting no more enjoyment out of them than our forefathers who planted the famous trees for the Knights, warns David Pace Hidden history Manuel Cauchi Wine today Where are they now? Miss Maltas | No: 0076 |
The boathouse owners at Armier are getting mixed messages from the politicians and the authorities. Now it’s either a time for reassurance or a time for war, they tell Miriam Dunn. [READ FULL ARTICLE]
Joe Fenech Former Nationalist minister still has faith in the Prime Minister, but that doesn’t stop him taking the Party machinery to task, as RAY ABDILLA discovers
Shake-up needed immediately After the 5-0 thumping at the hands of Denmark, Malta suffered the humiliation of losing 4-1 at home to Iceland. I recently wrote that after such debacles coach Josif Ilic should go and that Michael Mifsud should start playing for the national side. He did on so Wednesday and he was practically the best player on the field. RAY ABDILLA speaks about the realities of the national team, and feels that a shake-up is needed without delay
Police furious with court leniency One Superintendent told MaltaToday that he and some of his colleagues cannot understand the sentences which some Magistrates are giving, describing them as either incomprehensible or, at best, too lenient Party chiefs explain their policy over drug traffickers The recent arraignment of Zebbug businessman, Norman Bezzina, in connection with a Canada-Malta drug smuggling ring has rekindled the issue of drug links to politics Labour’s SwiM campaign gathering pace The Labour Party is bracing itself for a war of convictions on the EU issue, with the party machinery gearing up for the referendum and the next general election Getting heavy on retail outlets The battle to improve food hygiene in Malta was stepped up at the beginning of this month when health inspectors began cracking down on retail outlets selling food Another store bites the dust Following the publication of a story on Malta’s potentially endangered supermarket sector, and in particular the recent ailments experienced by the sector’s giant – Price Club - in last week’s MaltaToday, the newspaper was inundated with phone calls requesting further information Death knell for Kalkara valley More than four tumoli of agricultural land being used for organic farming may be lost if the Planning Authority goes ahead with its plans to allow the south side of the Kalkara valley to be turned into terraced and clustered houses |