There are very serious reasons for holding an inquiry into the death of Jean Paul Sofia. Maybe the Prime Minister's refusal to meet the opposition leader's repeated call for an inquiry is because...

Full marks to Marie Benoit for her very erudite diary, Life Network: Making abortion unthinkable (TMIS, January) and for her appeal to readers to support Life Network with a donation. Our respective...

If we aim to be at the forefront of nations that champion the rights of victims of crime we must improve on the good that we have achieved so far in promoting and implementing the many types of...

Amazing, isn't it - no Labour minister has found fault with PM Robert Abela talking offhand with a magistrate about the work at the law courts. Even the justice?? minister saw nothing wrong with...

I am writing on behalf of the Seismic Monitoring and Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta.  We refer to the article by Noel Grima entitled “Safe as Houses”...

If the government really wants to remove cars from the roads it should start taxing car owners who do not have a garage. Or make them rent garage spaces and produce proof. Any garage owner who...

Fifty years ago today, on 22 January 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the infamous case that came to be known worldwide as Roe v Wade, thereby decriminalizing abortion throughout...

Historically the PN has always used these two words "abortion" and "divorce", to scare the wits of the Maltese, and particularly the Gozitans, for their own political ends. Using their enormous...

In a recent article elsewhere in the printed media, stockbroker Edward Rizzo highlighted MIA’s massive cash resources of €53.7 million as at 30 September. He correctly urged the company to...

Perhaps as it currently reads, the proposed amendment to our abortion law leaves too wide a discretion to the medical practitioner which might be ripe for abuse. When is it justified to terminate a...