As we pass the first anniversary since the first Corona Virus case was detected in Malta, it is opportune to have a look at how we performed as a country during the last year, a year like no other....

There is a growing issue in Malta about rights to walk in the countryside. It is of course a very sensitive issue, as encouraging masses of people to go to certain places would lead to their immediate...

The Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) of the Council of Europe (CoE) has issued a Guide to Public Debate on Human Rights and Biomedicine as a tool to assist member states in involving the public in...

Tourism planning in Malta and Gozo has always been a "top-down" process;  in 1925 when the Malta Tourism Committee was first set up in April by the official decree of the Senate, this was a...

"I am coming as a pilgrim, as a penitent pilgrim, to implore from the Lord forgiveness and reconciliation after years of war and terrorism, to beg from God the consolation of hearts and the healing of...

Social media was buzzing these last few days over a controversy that seems to have arisen due to the fact that an individual was fined by law enforcement officials for not wearing a face mask during a...

Rosario Frendo Azzopardi, later Frendo Randon, was a PN candidate in the 1947 and 1950 elections. He was an advocate by profession and a man of culture at the same time. When the famous...

Women are constantly fighting battles. Over the years, our fight has been shaped around various social aspects: from fighting for universal suffrage, to the fight against discrimination, violence and...

The Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant effect on all dimensions of young peoples’ lives. As the pandemic persists, so too will its confirmed impact on adolescents’ mental and...

Women's day tends to bring about two divisive opinions: those wishing every woman they know a Happy Women's Day, perhaps not even thinking about the significance of such wishes, and, on the other...