On the evening of Friday, 13 May, no buses were running along the St Julian’s-Sliema promenade due to a noisy feast – with lots of drum-beating – at Spinola Bay. People at the bus...

On the corner of Triq il-Linja (Old Railway Track) and Triq Sant’ Anton (St Anthony Street), there is a “No heavy vehicles” traffic sign – exempting route buses, which is...

Today, the mention of the word ‘eugenics’ hardly attracts any interest. It is a word that seems to have vanished from our vocabulary, but eugenics is a reality of which most of us are...

There are flaws in the interview with Bjorn Bonello entitled Surplus parking, higher road capacity, reduction in delays (TMIS 5 June). Mr Bonello starts off on a constructive note by making...

Allow me to comment on the news report by Ivan Camilleri entitled “Attempt to replace head of tax compliance unit” (SToM, 29th May) where it was stated that the Finance Ministry, headed by...

A little over five years ago, Tahrir Square in Cairo was overflowing with Egyptian people determined to overthrow the 30-year-old dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak and stake their claim to citizenship,...

Last month, I attended an interesting lecture given by Fr Johnatan Farrugia on the life and theology of St Gregory of Nyssa at the Augustinian Institute in Pieta,. His...

Presently: A term like several others much abused and profanely used in modern parlance; at times purposely misused by persons aspiring to be in the limelight in politics, possibly in the hope of...

I refer to the report entitled “The Order ‘was not in decline’ when the French came” (TMIS, 29th May). It deals with the talk Wirt Ghawdex had invited me to deliver a week...

For someone who has dedicated the past twenty years researching the ecclesiastical decorative arts in Malta, who has written three theses (undergraduate, Masters and doctoral) on the same subject, and...