Independent Food fod Thought

I suggest you read this article on the current state of affairs according to Malta's former Finance Minister, Lino Spiteri. In his article, Spiteri concluded says that, "The island has been independent of the UK for 40 years, at liberty to set and navigate her own course. Achievements through those four decades included the manner in which innate capabilities of our people grew into a dynamic of broad initiative. For all of that time we have also been at each other's throats."

From timesofmalta.com

"We have been politically independent for two-score years. But we have not yet gained independence of the mind. We are not subservient to a foreign power. But too large a part of the national intellect is susceptible to internal division. One reason may be that, in 40 years of independence, there has been not a single national icon.
Who are our heroes, a young person reflected to me the other day. Who indeed? Things can change if the young nurture a process that may have already started. If they insist that, going forward, they do not want to be burdened by the baggage of mindless division. That they are happy and proud to be Maltese and not part of a Maltese tribe.
Thereby, they will not become of one mind, agreeing about everything. They will become of one independent Maltese mind, seeing things from Malta's - and not a tribal - perspective. They can use that independence to make their own political choices and not to have them handed down to them by tribal tradition, blind faith and prejudice.
They can make celebration of independence a national reality. They will be free in the best sense of the word"