By now, the dangers posed by the novel Coronavirus pandemic that has really gone worldwide, are so wellknown that all of us – including the totally dumb – comprehend how deadly it can be....

The European Trade Union Confederation has reported that at least one million workers have lost their jobs in the Europe during the past two weeks. This figure has been dubbed the tip of the iceberg...

I can only imagine the pain and suffering that so many people are experiencing as one public health directive after another exhorts for social distancing. The need to be together is evident in the...

When the news of local Covid-19 cases broke and all were being advised to practice social distancing, members of the public were understandably shocked by the Planning Authority’s insistence on...

Necessarily, given the times we’re living in, great attention is being given to the uncertainties that are accumulating. In “normal” times, many of the changes that occur are well...

In 2015, Bill Gates delivered a TED lecture in which he said that the next crisis to hit humanity would not be military but medical. He explicitly said, five years ago, that the next crisis would...

Covid-19 has brought the country to a standstill. We are not isolated from nature and its forces at work around us. We are not immune, not just from viruses, but from the forces of nature. Today...

It’s strange how the mythical stories of old have so much to teach and lead us; yet all we do is ignore them and never learn. The Babylonians, in a very fantastical past, tried to build a...

I live in a very old house and these past days especially I have found myself staring at the ceiling slabs (xorok) and the walls and thinking about the people who so many years ago hand-carved...

As we ambled rather unconsciously through the events that were shaping Malta in the past decade and with stronger determination over the last 7 years, little did we know that all that we had ignored,...