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...

On Saturday 6 August, the health minister, Chris Fearne, announced an “overhaul of Gozo health services” through the introduction of a permanent ambulance service, linking the Gozo...

Organising boycotts of businesses and operations to which you object is bad. Organising boycotts of anything associated with individuals to whom you object is even worse. Both smack of totalitarianism, the...