Half a century ago, the employment situation was not very rosy in Malta. The day when Britain subsidised our economy were long gone, industrialisation had not yet taken off and...

It was announced in the local media that the minimum age drinking limit is to be raised to 18. There are certainly very good reasons for this measure to be introduced and it is high time that it is...

I refer to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s article entitled “In the beginning…” (TMIS, 8 September). I must congratulate Daphne for having, at last, acknowledged that mothers have a...

What is it like for disabled people abroad? While the article “Disabled We Fly” (TMIS, 21 July) looked at the feedback gathered from a number of disabled participants and a parent of a...

The problem with any case at MEPA is that it essentially pits two completely unbalanced opponents.  On the one hand you have a developer fronting a multi million Euro project with a war chest to...

Various ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementations have been undergone in recent years with the failure rate still high compared to other implementation projects.   This has raised...

On 10 July, an elderly pedestrian was seriously injured in a road accident after being hit by a 17-year-old youth. This accident was initially reported in the local press as having...

The film Downfall is based largely on the diaries of Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s secretary and recalls the last days of the Second World War in the Berlin bunker where Hitler and his close...

“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” This magnificent piece of wit was...

The Ramblers’ Association is concerned by the uncanny similarities, and some important (but difficult to understand) differences, between two environmental issues: the recent San Blas...