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This morning at 0730 hrs the police in Calais encircled the illegal camp known as “la jungle” and began the evacuation of what was left of its population. La Jungle consisted of a run down camp built by refugees and sans papiers as a temporary base before attempting to hop off the mainland and into…
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An amendment to the Animal Welfare Act will soon address a lacuna in the law whereby the keeping of wild and dangerous animals is not properly regulated. Sources at the Resources Ministry confirmed that this amendment will soon be proposed in Parliament and the Times links this amendment to the finding of the Bengal Tiger earlier…
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This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. L’Oreal, the cosmetics giant has commissioned an encyclopaedia that encompasses the history of Beauty. They are not the first and will certainly not be the last to tackle this topic – one can only think of Umberto Eco or Alain…
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You’d think that with the number of aspirant legislators in this country they’d have got the lawmaking business down to a tee. Every candidate that aspires to represent you in the hallowed halls of parliament (and in the future of Piano’s parliament) is also aspiring to form a significant part of the law-making process. Parliament…
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Not that it will be particularly relevant in the local Maltese scene for a while now but we can continue to draw lessons from the various coalition governments or formations around the European political world if we would like to. In Germany, Angela Merkel is preparing for the upcoming election. She has recently pledged to…
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Labour Leader Joseph Muscat has awoken from the summer slumber and shows no signs of changing his ways from that of Opinion Poll Sucker. New Labour is not forming into a party with a set of values as its backbone. Rather than a sort of “Third Way” manifesto, Joseph Muscat – a product of the…