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TOP NEWS | Sunday, 18 January 2009

ABELA’S SKELETON

As a leading Labour Party representative on the 1987 electoral commission he defended the gerrymandered districts that gave Labour the 1981 and 1987 perverse electoral results


Malta’s next President, George Abela, was one of five Labour representatives on the infamous 1987 electoral commission, who shot down a minority report to revise the gerrymandered electoral boundaries. >>


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Straight out of Machiavelli

Lawrence Gonzi’s proposal to Joseph Muscat to appoint George Abela as the next President has all the ingenuity of a political masterstroke that gives the prime minister an aura of magnanimity – an aura which he must surely be coveting in his bid to leave his mark in political history. .>>


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OPINIONS



Saviour Balzan :
Retracing George Abela


Michael Falzon :
Sixth seat issue nonsense


Raphael Vassallo:
Coccolino the coke dealer


Vince Farrugia
A wake-up call


Harry Vassallo
Silent guilt


Evarist Bartolo
A university for the 21st century

 


Planning Watch:

Robert Musumeci focuses on a MEPA decision taken this week, where it is demonstrated that retractable canopies (affixed to the façade) are not only allowed in Town Centres, Entertainment Priority Areas or Tourism Zones….

Robert Musumeci states that MEPA’s policies regulating storage to commercial outlets should be changed following a decision taken this week

Switching from outline application to full mode… during a dcc hearing

Reservoir turned dwelling, and now stables

A permit following court order

Dwellings in basements

High rise in Valletta



Eric German:
Reverse racism

The torturer’s apprentice

Vegetarian vampires
Carrey’s comeback movie

Far from magical
The package is a girl

Relationships without marriage
Everything but the girl

The saga of a police family
Battling the “unlife”

The repeaters’ cartoon



A tribute to Ebba von Fersen Balzan




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