In his Friday Wisdom (TMID, 28 January), Alfred Mifsud has once again taken the government to task over “leaving the public sector so much excessively staffed” and for government permitting good pay packages to public sector workers....

I refer to the white paper containing proposals for a better administration of justice....

I was very pleased to learn that the idea of a trade unions council has fallen through once again. ...

Always on the lookout for amusing things, I noticed (TMID 29 January) on BBC Prime at 2pm – Diet Trials, Where Are They Now? ...

I was really shocked to read in the local media that the Animal Welfare Council will be putting a plan into action to kill, or put to sleep (which sounds so much nicer!) all strays on the island. ...

Claude (not his real name) was a social worker with the Good Samaritan, a church aid agency in Democratic Republic of Congo. Helping young people, orphans, the destitute and sick people in the war-torn country kept 27-year-old Claude always on the go. But...

After an initial short-lived state of disbelief, the untimely, evitable, tragic demise of an acquaintance subtly triggers off an uneasy sentiment of gloom, anger and then resentment for the immediate provoking circumstance....

I refer to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s article titled “The Doll’s House in 2005” (TMIS, 30 January). Yes, I agree but back then, in the 1960s/1970s/1980s, some, or most of the women wanted, wished and chose to get married, have a family and bring up children...

I sit here frustrated and so angry! Freezing cold at home, because the most efficient gas deliveryman did not bother to come and distribute in our road. We have been waiting for a week....

The following was engendered by the curious juxtaposition of the international commemoration of the Holocaust victims on Thursday 27January, and the recent public assembly in Safi, of a blatantly racist political party....