Over recent years the Planning Authority [PA] has processed, and more often than not approved, dozens of requests to develop multi-storey hotels. One recent request that has caused apprehension...

The corona virus pandemic has brought home in a big way the lesson that with globalisation, frontiers have lost all effectiveness in defending people. To be sure, when in the past epidemics...

As sixth-form biology students, we learnt that viruses lie on the outskirts of life. They need a host to replicate, which they do by “hijacking” the host’s cellular machinery,...

The declaration by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, earlier this week, on the possibility that between 60 and 70 per cent of the German population could eventually be infected by the Coronavirus may...

These last 29 months my world has been nothing short of a roller coaster. A time of hatred, a time of love. A time of endless conflict and what seemed like total desperation. Just under two and a...

As I begin writing, at 12.30pm on Friday, the news is of 12 confirmed cases of Coronavirus infections, no deaths so far and all cases 'imported', ie not home-grown. And patient 2 is out of danger and...

The Chamber of Architects has long insisted for changes to be made to the Periti Act so that it can have more tools to safeguard the profession and society, Simone Vella Lenicker, the president of the...

In January 2010 I was in Antarctica.  It was the time that the H1N1 virus known as Swine Flu was making its way around the world.  We were on a small ship, not the kind of mega cruise liners...

As announced yesterday, all schools, childcare centres and educational (including tertiary) institutions will be closed from today Friday for a week. We will be reviewing the situation and inform...

When an epidemic is spreading fast, it is natural for people to question whether the protective systems being adopted are robust enough. One must take care not to let such questions become too...