These last weeks we witnessed horrendous news that spread like wildfire.  Once again two (ex) priests, this time from Gozo, are being accused that they had abused an altar boy, and all of this...

The title is not a suggestion, it is rather a description of the current situation with hunting and trapping in Malta right now. The news this week of a record 210 cases of illegal hunting show that...

Prime Minister Robert Abela’s suggestion for schools to remain open during the Carnival “holidays” and for the “lost” holidays to be recouped in the summer or in some...

Public debate should at this time be focussing on the implications of Brexit for Malta and the Maltese, say, or on the country’s ranking in matters of rule of law and corruption, or on the...

A ten-year tourism strategy entitled Recover, Rethink, Revitalise has been published for consultation. It is a strategy which advocates an improvement in quality but does not seek to address the...

Our lives have increasingly become ruled by numbers, especially in this second year of the Covid pandemic. As we look back at how, just a year ago, we first started to hear about this obscure...

Boasting very often comes hand in hand with political statements.  The nasty bits and less flattering news are pushed aside or below the surface and papered with sound bites and...

That is why we have to encourage the upcoming and present generation to embrace STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education.  In a changed, digitally-reliant world there is...

In how the Covid-19 pandemic has spread in Europe and the rest of the world, there is an outstanding feature. Over the months, all countries got a big hit, though not all in the same way or at the...

Our prison is an evil place.  Some might ask, can you punish without vengeance?  My answer to that is ‘yes’.  We can develop a system that recognizes that people who...