Sport has the potential to improve our individual wellbeing as well as to strengthen our communities. However, until now, disabled people have tended to be denied the opportunity to actively...

As a private person who inherited a rural property in Gozo, which was partly in ruins, and, after many attempts, managed to obtain a building permit in 2007 to rehabilitate the property and its...

On Wednesday, 16 October, the United States Congress and President Barack Obama finally reached an agreement on the budget for the 2014 fiscal year that would reopen the government after a two-week...

Joseph and Michelle Muscat have gone to Israel, to tick Netanyahu off their list of ‘people with whom we must be photographed in the next five years’ so as to fill enough frejms tal-fidda...

I am certainly not the only person to have been struck by the news that has dominated the local and international headlines following the tragedy that unfolded as more people lost their lives...

The publication of the Civil Union Act last Monday is a clear signal that the current administration values and believes in the principle of equality, not only in its rhetoric but also in...

The tragic sight of scores of bodies of immigrants laid out on the beaches of Lampedusa and Sicily has driven home vividly the horror and nature of global migration. Comfortable in our Maltese bubble,...

The strong, clear and uncompromising message by Archbishop Paul Cremona, as guardian of the moral fibre of our society, to our politicians and others in public office on Independence Day did not come...

More people have drowned in the sea around Malta and Lampedusa over the last couple of days. And those are just the ones we know about. The calls for EU action have been predictable. And they are as...

The figure of €30 million made it to the headlines twice during this past week.   On Wednesday, European Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso led a delegation of top politicians to...