Sunday Times of Malta, 10 August 2008 – The recent controversy on the proposed extension to the museum of St John’s Co-Cathedral raises a number of issues on the conduct of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). There is no doubt that the idea...
Sunday Times of Malta, 27th July 2008 – During May, 14 per cent of outside development zone (ODZ) applications (17 out of 123) submitted to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority proposed extending the development boundaries further out onto uncommitted land. In...
Maltatoday, 6th July 2008 A new chairman of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority has been appointed. We wish him well, recognising that he has a formidable task ahead to sort out the many insidious problems lurking within the organisation that...
Letter to the Sunday Times of Malta, 6th July 2008 The New York Times (June 25) carried a travelogue on Malta. As I read the blogs I came across the following; “Last month, I took my wife and three children to Malta for...
14th September 2007 Newspeak was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four to refer to the redefinition of words that would help the regime suppress opposition and freedom of speech. Orwell understood that the manipulation of language can be...
There are 15 persons who are appointed to sit on the board of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority. They are chosen for their skill, outlook intelligence and integrity to look after the most controversial subject...
John Ruskin claimed that we know more about the lives of the ancient Greeks from the ruins of their buildings than from anything else they left behind. Anyone who has visited Pompei near Naples, a town frozen in time by...