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TOP NEWS | Sunday, 03 May 2009

MALTA-ITALY TENSION REACHES NEW HEIGHTS

Blockade sours relations as Italy bullies Malta into taking in all migrants in distress

Unconfirmed reports of a meeting between Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and Opposition leader Joseph Muscat reached this newsroom yesterday, as high tension is building up between Malta and Italy on immigration.>>

NEWS | Sunday, 03 May 2009

Swine flu danger possibly overrated

Gonzi – shipyard offers ‘below what we expected’

Hunters want to ‘boycott BirdLife sponsors’

MEPA’s change of heart on gaming shops

‘Show us the money’, Maltese artists demand

EU voters notified two weeks too late

Dead end for Marsaskala VAT probe

Kalkara valley gets ‘pruned’

A game of sink or swim

Michael Falzon told to use proper terms on immigration

Only 37.2% think we’re better off

In the dock: Lockerbie witness Gauci

Zejtun drug bust yields kilo of heroin

Labour files protest on VAT refund

Maltese flagged ship hijacked

Life’s a cabaret

Pope’s stage brings more drama to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

SPECIAL REPORTS

A tribute to
Ebba von Fersen Balzan

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EDITORIAL

Reinstate those voters

Last Sunday, MaltaToday revealed that the names of almost 1,000 EU voters, registered to vote in the 2004 EP elections, had been deleted from the register ahead of the European elections in June. >>

INTERVIEW

Dealing with the unknown
As the world braces itself for a global pandemic of swine flu, epidemiologist Dr Julian Mamo explains what the virus is all about, and what is being done about it locally and around the world >>

OPINIONS

Saviour Balzan
Italian bullies and Maltese sissies

Raphael Vassallo:
There can only be... um... 3 million

Evarist Bartolo
No protection in life or in death

Harry Vassallo
Only three decades late

David Friggieri
Zooropa

Vince Farrugia
When the nation calls

Robert Musumeci reacts to the Prime Minister’s proposals for wind farms

Robert Musumeci talks about the manner MEPA decides on extensions to farmhouses and tennis courts in ODZs

Robert Musumeci speaks about the future of the controversial Wied
il-Ghasel Permit

Robert Musumeci reviews three decisions by the Planning Appeals Board in the last weeks

Robert Musumeci agrees that similar commitment which is covered by a valid permit outweighs the provisions of a Local Plan. His reasoning is based on a landmark planning judgment delivered this week by the learned Mr Justice Raymond C. Pace in the names Trident Development Limited vs MEPA

Robert Musumeci Robert Musumeci insists that planning decisions should be driven by positive architectural design solutions. He agrees with DCC’s decision to approve an old people’s home which partly lies in an ODZ

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Love is in the Hair

The Family Silver

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

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What a mad lot we are

Full house

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A boy called Lu

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