Autocratic rule in China and Russia is on the cards as these two powerful countries slide back into dictatorship. The news that China's Communist party intends to abolish term limits on the Chinese...

The impression I get is that schools are being run by crisis management when tackling of pupils with problems. I think that few resources are invested to help these students.  When a six-year-old...

I refer to my letter of the 25th February issue entitled "Does HSBC really care?" Two weeks have since passed and it seems that HSBC did not in fact care enough about the matter, as it failed to avail...

On the second Sunday of Lent, the pastoral letter written by the Archbishop of Malta and the Bishop of Gozo was read in all the churches of Malta and Gozo. The subject matter of this...

In his opinion piece entitled "To do or not to do" (TMID, Friday 23 February), Minister Owen Bonnici defends the plan to hand over control of three of our State hospitals to a commercial company...

Recently we, the Maltese Capuchin friars, had the joy and grace of going on retreat. The time, the place and the preacher were all designed by God's loving Providence. The retreat was held in the...

On 8 January, I followed the parliamentary debate on the PN's motion regarding the Zonqor land on which AUM will build the second phase of its project. The leader of the opposition, Adrian Delia, has...

"Ninth home for the disabled to be opened as part of Socjeta' Gusta project": should we applaud this news? According to Article 19(a) of UN Convention of Rights for Persons with Disabilities,...

More than a century ago women started a fight against inequality and oppression and today, in 2018, we still commemorate International Women's Day, if perhaps not for the same oppression as in 1908,...

It has now become an open secret that there is a racket revolving around the issuance of visas to Third Country Nationals applying as English-language students to Malta. In many cases, once...