The sonic battle of Valletta’s extended bar and restaurant opening hours is a legal conundrum that goes beyond the issue of simply amending the trading licences’ legislation. It’s a...

A 37-year-old man damaged two 1970s stone sculptures. Another middle-aged man was caught with a historic stone marker dating from Queen Victoria’s reign in his private poolside garden. The...

While you are reading through this article His Excellency President George Vella is in the United Kingdom, after attending for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. He left these islands on...

Book review: Aleks Farrugia, Camerata! SKS (2021), 336 pp. Even though the story is set in the 1930s, Aleks Farrugia’s Camerata! is not a historical novel: the author is too liberal with...

The torpor of the overheated July and the release from the Covid restrictions has been rudely interrupted by the events taking place at the Catholic St Albert School of Valletta. In my life, I...

This week we have published the so-called Strategy 2025, which sets out the vision, mission and goals of Arts Council Malta for the coming years, reinforced by its commitment toward cultural...

I fail to understand the authorities’ lack of commitment to protect the Comino environment. Supposedly, it should be obvious that tourism needs to be managed with a sense of balance and a...

As a former colony we too have been “on the receiving end of foreign hegemonies, it is one of our main moral duties to prevent the West from again following the path to domination, which as we...

Recently, I needed to go to Żurrieq. In the past I used to go quite frequently there. For a number of reasons, I had not visited for quite a while. I still remembered how to go there with eyes...

“This project will be a game-changer”, Joseph Muscat boasted in Parliament.  He was referring to the American University of Malta fronted by Hani Salah, a hotel developer. On 5th May...