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‘A positive personal scorecard and a negative business one’

“Late in 2010 we relocated to Gozo from South Africa. Now at the beginning of a new year and after more than 12 months in Malta we have concluded our choice of a new country was good. We have received friendship and help from many people, so necessary to settling in a different environment and [...]
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Hopes of February 10th opening destroyed by bureaucracy

Following last year’s controversy on the opening of shops on public holidays that fall close to special occasions which are deemed to be very important shopping days, where the GRTU strongly advocated for the outlets to be given the opportunity to open without the legal obligation to pay €700 euro’s per shop, there seemed to [...]
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“Three years waiting for a drain cover to be welded down”

“I have been asking my local council for the years to fix a loose drain cover outside the front door and below my bedroom window for three years and am still waiting for action from them, why do we have to complain till we are blue in the face to get simple things done? Below [...]
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A heartfelt thank you for kindness shown by Gharb family

“I would like to express our gratitude to a lovely family from Gharb, Nancy, her husband Michael and their son Jacob, as well as Jacob´s girlfriend. We arrived late on a Sunday night in October to our accommodation in Gharb and didn´t know where to go for food. Nancy offered her help and phoned her [...]
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‘Gozo is a gem in the Mediterranean to savor like a fine wine’

“I just heard that London has sold its bendy buses to Malta because the buses were unable to negotiate the narrow streets of London. Now, forgive me if I am missing something here, but if they cannot get down the wide, paved, double yellow lined streets of London, just how are they going to cope [...]
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When will people say enough is enough? – Readers Letter

“What I find really hard to understand in Malta is the way people adhere so rigidly to party politics no matter how ineffective their party of choice is. The Maltese people are paying through the nose for things like heating oil, gas, petrol, food, medicine, even school uniforms to mention but a few and yet [...]
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