I woke up to savage cries of jubilation all over Facebook when it was announced that Miriana Conte had made it to the final night of Eurovision after an absence of long years for Malta. The...

The Roman Catholic world has a new Pope. After three days of black smoke, on May 8th, at 18:09, white smoke billowed from a small chimney above the Sistine Chapel, under the watchful eyes of...

From generation to generation, the customs of citizens in a country get carried over and repeated. One generation follows the practices of its predecessor and copies them till it practises them like...

Opinionist Kevin Cassar considers PN MP Alex Borg to be one of Labour's Trojan horses within the PN since he believes that Gozitan Borg isn't fighting for Gozo's past, let alone its future. This...

From the outside, nationalism seems to be regaining ground after years during which globalisation has been conquering every corner of political and economic governance everywhere. I always believed...

What happened in the last days, just a few kilometres outside of Maltese territorial waters, sent shockwaves across the country and raised some very pertinent questions as to what it meant to be a...

Eyes were focused on that chimney at the Vatican for a considerable time during the past week. The election of the successor of Pope Francis has a relevance extending beyond religion and religious...

"The Opposition is celebrating the damage caused to you," Robert Abela told the crowd gathered for his Workers' Day mass meeting. Opposition members, Abela 'revealed', were "rubbing their hands in...

I recently came across a deeply poignant Maltese song titled "Jien ma naħdimx" ("I don't work") by Karen DeBattista. It is a beautifully crafted, poetic plea voiced by a mother whose daily life...

Gozo stands at a crossroads. As Malta's sister island continues to grapple with development challenges and questions of fair representation, two strong voices have stepped into the spotlight with...