This week it was announced that Pope Francis will be coming to Malta on an apostolic visit on 31.5.20, feast of Pentecost.  His visit follows on the invitation extended by President George Vella...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes education as the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In this sense, it is equivalent to what social scientists term socialization...

Former Nationalist Party Leader Simon Busuttil said yesterday that, while his chapter in local politics is drawing to a close, he will keep up his fight against corruption in his new role as Secretary...

The government set up agencies to run projects in the belief that they would operate more efficiently than government departments. Still in many cases, agencies were bound to observe public sector...

Togetherness It was a fresh November morning in 1986, the 30th.  Heading to tal-Barrani (an allegorical name to a street that meant so much to the political struggle at the time)....

Replies are still pending to questions about how best to run the conference due to be held about Europe’s future. Up to some time ago, it still had been considered as a major event. I am not...

Do I mean that we should resign ourselves to the ideologies of impunity and whitewashing?  Not at all! Joseph Muscat was an expert at whitewashing, at attempting to stop people finding out...

Few, if any, among the non-prejudiced and unbiased, should have any doubts over Robert Abela’s quick settling-down in the premier’s seat of power and his preparedness for the next...

The Malta Tourism Authority has announced that, during 2019, the Maltese Islands received a record 2.75 million tourists, an impressive jump from the 2010 figure of 1.33 million.  We are told...

A certain playwright once wrote something which roughly said that a rose would still smell like a rose even if it was called a cabbage. TVM and all state broadcasting spout propaganda of the...