Mr Navarro of the United States of America (TMID, 1 September) does not know what he is saying. I am an octogenarian more than he is. So I know that what he is saying about the Maltese language in Malta is not true. ...

In your editorial Value for money (TMID, 29 August), you wrote that "it is up to us to make things work for the good of the country and its economy"....

I can’t understand the reasoning behind Labour leader Joseph Muscat’s idea to extend the right to vote to young people aged 16. ...

Your opinion writer Daphne Caruana Galizia seems to be engaged in an ongoing crusade against organised religion and never misses an opportunity to mock the official teachings and traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

I am Fr Joseph Camilleri, a missionary in Guatemala for the past 15 years, and have just returned to continue my mission after spending a four-week holiday with my family and friends in Malta and Gozo. ...

I love the Maltese language, yet, I am no “Gozo-fanatic”, nor am I in any way a “dialect-fetishist”: therefore, I feel irritated by Daphne Caruana Galizia’s way of describing the “Dialect-fest” to be held by Munxar local council...

G. Mallia (The Wild West, TMID, 29 August) is right as far as excessive noise goes. It has been like that for a long time. ...

May I state at the out-set and I quote: “Self- praising is no recommendation.” As a late octogenarian, I recall the time of my primary and secondary education, ...

For Giov. de Martino (TMID, 27 August), anything goes so long as it is in defence of the government that I assume he helped elect. Only the other day he had another letter, defending an irregularity by a minister. ...

I write in reference to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s article (Cocaine and gonorrhoea – but please, no divorce, TMID, 28 August). If she wants to call someone lunatic with regard to Maltese literature and dialects, please call me and not the Gozitans....