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The Malta Independent, 7th July 2008, by Annaliza Borg – The Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations, Kenneth Wain is working to incorporate all voluntary organisations into the legal system according to the law which came into effect last December. As from last February,...

Times of Malta, 1st July 2008 The concept of “Gozo as an ecological island” has been around quite a while. I first heard about it some six years ago when an expatriate living in Gozo, Terence Calnan, first sounded out the...

Times of Malta, 29th June 2008 In her article entitled ‘Speculators and Squatters rule, OK’, in last Sunday’s MaltaToday, Pamela Hansen hit the nail on the head. Like all law-abiding citizens in this country who would never have the temerity to park...

Times of Malta, 17th June 2008 – Wonders never cease in this little Clochemerle-like republic of ours. On Monday week I read that the Qala local council has successfully applied to the government for a grant to finance a study to...

Times of Malta, 16th June 2008 – Sustainable development is on the government’s drawing board. In short, objectives for economic progress are to take environmental concerns into account and vice versa. A balance between the two is to be achieved. Construction...

Sunday Times of Malta, 18 May 2008 – To the current frenzy of building stables and discos, we can add boathouses and hotel extensions. Snippets of information trickling through show plans for the dust-shrouded San Tumas enclave of around 140 boathouses,...

Sunday Times of Malta, 18 May 2008 – I sometimes feel that Malta is like a frog in a pot of water placed on a stove. The frog does not feel threatened by the gradual increase in temperature and does...

On 10 April 2008, Dr Gordon Knox gave a public lecture at Din l-Art Helwa entitled ‘Water – a Crisis?’, which focused on the issue of water resources from global and Maltese perspectives. What follows are some of the main...

Times of Malta, 19th April 2008 Nothing is Sacred Anymore It is now an open secret that our island home is up for sale. The outrageous statements by the chairman of the Malta Tourism Authority, a parastatal body, in favour of the...