Contrary to claims by Birdlife Malta and other budding experts trying to influence the Maltese public that hunters are shooting protected birds, the only available official population status (IUCN Red...

Last week, the chairman of Mepa stated on RTK radio that work is continuing on the Development Planning Application Report (DPAR) for the Qala Creek project application and that, hopefully, it should...

How can the United States of America and other European countries crush, once and for all, the "death cult" of Muslim extremists who have brought bloodshed in various countries across the...

Last Tuesday, the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust was observed. In his message for the world commemoration of Holocaust victims of last year, UN...

As widely expected, the Greeks voted in a government which promised heaven on earth u manna niezla mis-sema (and manna falling from the sky)! The only problem is that the state has no money to throw...

Up to last August, I'd been wrestling with this conundrum ever since we adopted the euro: if these small denomination coins have to keep piling up before you can exchange them for anything worthwhile...

I was under the impression that my grandchild was attending a secondary school in Gozo, but it looks more like a military or police academy with the school adamantly insisting that students must wear...

I refer to the news item entitled "Reshuffle 'just the beginning' - Busuttil" (TMIS, 11 January). Opposition leader Simon Busuttil has carried out an initial exercise which might, hopefully, lead the...

Last March, I wrote a letter asking where the long overdue Development Planning Application Report (DPAR) for Hondoq was. It is this report, which sums up everything, that will be presented to the...

On 22 January1973, the US Supreme Court struck down all existing criminal abortion laws in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The court ruled that a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy in the...