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Editorial The woman, the speech and the direction MaltaToday campaign Getting back to basics it is better if we encourage youngsters to stick to the core subjects and achieve success in them, shadow education minister, Evarist Bartolo, tells MIRIAM DUNN Opinion All talk and no action David Pace is not surprised that the EU Environment Commissioner avoided the funding question during her visit to Malta Insight Hosting foreign students in Malta Foreign students coming to study English in Malta constitute a growing niche market. KURT SANSONE takes a look at this mushrooming sector  
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The welfare commission, better known as the Pensions Commission, which was expected to draw up a strategy for reform in the welfare system by October 1999, has still not concluded its report. Last year it was paid Lm25,000 for its services and a similar figure will be distributed to the commission this year. The commission is head by Alfred Galdes, a former Central Bank Governor. The welfare commission was formed with the express aim of finding a solution to the problem of the welfare gap. This year, a staggering Lm190 million will be needed to sustain social security payments. [READ FULL REPORT]
Karmenu, the Eurosceptic former Premier Former premier Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici today channels his time and energy into striving to keep Malta out of the EU. Here he tells MIRIAM DUNN why he is so vehemently opposed to membership and how, unlike his time as PM, he now has PN supporters
The absurdity of playing at Pace Grasso Playing on a ground that resembles the Sahara Desert certainly does nothing for morale, Melita striker, Nadia Gauci, tells Ray Abdilla
No nonsense PM breaks with protocol Taking advantage of the mid-term Prime Minister Fenech Adami is in no mood to be told how the run his business. He has broken with protocol and the normal communications strategy and directly queried press reports Cottonera
project attracts foreign workers, but not Maltese Meinrad Calleja has now become the perfect voodoo doll in times of crisis for some sections of the pro-government press Mnajdra grant sees light of day…at last A report, carried by MaltaToday two weeks ago that a $50,000 grant for the restoration of Mnajdra temples had not been spent because the National Museum of Archaeology did not produce an acceptable plan, seems to have kickstarted the authorities into action Toxic shame revealed Tonnes of chemicals used by various Maltese industries annually end up in the sea or else at Maghtab where they seep into the ground. This is the shameful situation of a country that has no official policy on how to dispose of its toxic waste Broadcasting Authority censors slang and vulgar words on TV Super One TV’s new series, Shelly Ranner, which is transmitted every Sunday at 8.30pm has raised the Broadcasting Authority’s ire after two commonly used Maltese slang and vulgar words were aired in the first episode |
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