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TOP NEWS | Sunday, 08 February 2009

GONZI DECIDES

RCC for EU Commissioner, Busuttil for Permanent Representative

The prime minister has decided that the next European Commissioner will be Richard Cachia Caruana, the permanent representative to the EU, whose position will be offered to Simon Busuttil, the MEP. >>

NEWS | Sunday, 08 February 2009

50% of drivers had a puncture last month

Malta’s bad roads highlighted in US crime and safety report

Youth roll up their sleaves for migrants’ solidarity

Abela defends ruling against own party

Mayor Musumeci clashes with deputy over wardens

Central Bank inquiry into PL ‘leak’ unconcluded

Dalli considers ‘health insurance’ to finance medical bill

Culling to turn airport into no-fly-zone… for birds

Molly’s final coup de grâce

Former AN official to contest for Libertas MEP

Murder, Elio wrote

Jazz crowd’s delight as festival returns to Arts Council

Private boreholes extract more water than Water Services

Mark Lamb: The rise of protectionism

Marsaskala coast earmarked for yacht marina

Chetcuti should face the music. Not play it.

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EDITORIAL

A debilitating shock to consumers

The water and electricity tariffs increase is turning into one long drawn-out farce that really exposes the amateurish way this country is still run in 2009, as we enter our fifth year as EU members. .>>

INTERVIEW

‘Crucified for being honest’
She campaigned against EU membership five years ago, but is now herself a candidate for the MEP elections. Some might call it a volte-face, but for Sharon Ellul Bonici it is more like a widely misunderstood consistency >>

OPINIONS

Saviour Balzan :
The story of two hats according to a Maltese

Raphael Vassallo:
Make up your blessed minds

Vince Farrugia
Ides of March

Evarist Bartolo
How many other ‘Josettes’ are suffering in silence?

David Friggieri
The island that banned kitsch

Robert Musumeci about the application of MEPA’s policies for Open Storage Areas

Robert Musumeci about a case officer quoting the incorrect policy

Robert Musumeci focuses on a negative recommendation made by a case officer, even though a similar permit on the same site location was issued a year before

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

A tribute to Ebba von Fersen Balzan

The Julian Manduca Award

Watch previous programmes

Draining the colour out of life

First Ladies

Sheep in wolf’s clothing

Chiconomics

Ġanni l-Gћaw dxi Hawn

Less is most de finitely more

The Mona’s Meals Top Restaurants for 2008

Leave the island? But it’s fabulous here right now

What a mad lot we are

Full house

The Young Man and the Sea

A boy called Lu

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Eric German:
The personal is political By Teodor Reljic

Survival is the best revenge

Heads do roll
A catfight in chiffon

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

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