The 100 days of summer, as Bay Radio likes to refer to the ‘silly season’, is probably more than half way there.  As I lay on the deckchair tapping on my Ipad with the Islands of St...

In most cases people are impressed with jugglers. Jugglers throw balls in the air, catch them, and keep them moving so that at least one or two are always in the air, but people are mesmerised, if not...

Marie Benoît believes that we cannot stop youngsters from drinking but we must teach them responsible and moderate drinking   The question is not whether teenagers will drink....

I found the media stories about how the “extra” umbrellas came to be removed from the beach at Comino quite hilarious. Probably such incidents can only happen in Malta, or Comino if you...

The recent tweet by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna about his views regarding the Planning Authority’s recent approval of high-rise buildings may have ruffled some feathers in certain areas but...

A random taxi driver in Central America gave me a graphic description of how the Maltese man with whom he shared a cabin, on the cruise ship they both worked for in the early 1980s, used to...

Up till around a month ago, when the nature of my job changed, I used to make it a point of attending the Mepa board meetings week after week, Thursday after Thursday. Sometimes I would be the...

I had never been tempted to visit Dubai, even when friends came back from there waxing lyrical about its attractions, natural and man-made. The one and only occasion that I did was when an Emirates...

The saga of the Mrieħel and Townsquare towers is now entering a new phase, with the planning appeal stopwatch due to start ticking shortly – most probably towards the end of the month. It...

Joseph Muscat tries very hard to camouflage his many tools and tactics by dumping them into the cannot-fail-to-please bag – the New Middle Class.  If it wasn’t in the Taghna Lkoll...