The high numbers and the respective reproduction rate of Covid-19 are not mere abstractions. Behind the numbers there are deaths and there is suffering.  Even if a person or their loved ones have...

Last week I was on radio while a listener called in saying that ‘Robert Abela wants to kill our senior citizens’. The gentleman then referred to how authorities were sending twice for the...

In 2013 the need for a change in the political landscape was there for all to see.   The state of the Nationalist Party was that of complete disarray. It was a Party that had lost its...

There was no other alternative to the decision that was taken. The number of infections had increased so much in the past weeks that urgent and drastic action was needed to contain the damage....

The thoughts uppermost in the minds of most people these terrible days are taken up by concerns about the spread of the virus and the vertiginous spike in the number of infected persons that have led...

I think by now it's beyond dispute that Joseph Muscat's roadmap was to pander to a particular radical-liberal lobby to secure a robust majority behind which he and his minions could hide to carry out...

It is too simplistic to state that the surge in Covid-19 new cases is the unique responsibility of more efficient strains of the virus. The efficient virus was without doubt, for quite some time,...

People have nick names in Malta and Gozo. Many are often known more by their nick name than their Christian name and surname. The name can be attributed to their job or trade, their family, their...

Science holds the answer, or has the potential to provide an answer to most of the burning questions in today's world. All one needs to do is to take a look at the disease which is currently...

This week, the "Irish Times" carried an article about how Ireland now finds itself in a position by which its national debt per capita (covering the population living in the country) has become the...