The Opera house (1) – Timing is not their forte December 2, 2008

The States has been declared to be into a recession. The Eurozone should follow, sometime next year. The United Nations said the world economy faces its worst downturn since the Great Depression.
Malta is one quarter away from a recession.
In time when we are asked to pay more for electricity, water and now on drainage to [...]

changing names November 30, 2008

‘As from Sunday the Malta Labour Party will be known as Partit Laburista, one of several changes in the party statute approved by acclamation on Sunday morning.
The delegates also voted in favour for a change in the Party’s emblem which will however retain the torch, symbolizing ‘progress’ and ‘guiding light’.
Joseph Muscat taking a cue from [...]

The 24th hour patient November 30, 2008

Imagine being told to do a 24 hour shift. Not the best of thoughts, but this is exactly the number of hours doctors pull at the Mater Dei.
In other countries, doctors are paid three times as much for working half as much. If we have a shortage of doctors it is also because of this. [...]

Now you know what to say to cute little Tom November 29, 2008

The next time cute little Tom comes knocking on your door asking for money so a new Catholic Centre can be built, you tell him to check with the Archdiocese of Malta first.

The Times reports:

‘The Archdiocese of Malta has lost €300,000 in the Lehman Brothers crash, just weeks after it had bought the bonds that [...]

opendemocracy digest November 28, 2008

A few articles from opendemocracy. net:
Somalia: piracy and politics
The involvement of Somalis in piracy is rooted in the circumstances of an internal conflict that has lasted since the early 1990s. There has for years been no authority to enforce and regulate Somalia’s fishing area along its coast – itself the most extensive in the [...]

(Not) smart sex … November 27, 2008

Before I call it a day … Statistics compiled by Dr. Philip Carabott said that ‘the number of people with Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI) is increasing year by year, with a high proportion of patients not using protection.’
I can’t understand why guys don’t wear condoms and girls don’t keep one in their purse. [...]

When the base gets weak … November 27, 2008

During these last eight years ‘top managers’ in Italy saw an increase in their pay cheque of 85% . Some even of  145%; while the increase in the salary of the workers and managers was nominal- 300 euro kind of nominal.  This weakened the base  and with it the whole consumerist structure. What is happening [...]

Threat of Secularism? Ma fammi il piacere … November 25, 2008

Until 1978, blessed by the Catholic Church, Spain was under a Fascist dictatorship. General Francisco Franco who led a successful coup d’etat against the government of the time, the left-wing Popular Front, remains one of the most obscure dictators in Western history. We know a lot about Mussolini and his pal Adolf but not so [...]

Because we never get tired of him November 23, 2008

Campaign to receive the internet speed you pay for in Malta November 21, 2008

A new group on facebook; I am publishing its description:
Below is a copy of a letter sent to Peter Micallef, Chief Executive of Melita Cable plc on Tuesday, May 01, 2007. It was published in the Sunday Times Customer Care Column by Anthony Muscat Inglott.
Whilst I have an account with Onvol it is my contention [...]