I wish to dedicate my last blog of this year and even in this series to a book that Carmel Vassallo and I have edited about the port of Malta. It is not the job of authors, editors or...

Everyone is aware that different parts of the world are experiencing weather extremes. Under the heading ‘Changing climate forces desperate Guatemalans to emigrate’, National Geographic...

This year, December brought with it not only the usual celebrations but also another important commemoration.  On 10 December 1948, the United Nations brought into being the Universal Declaration...

What an ugly place has Malta become! Or rather, it was always like that but we (I) never realised! An affidavit submitted in Court in a family separation case gets dragged up and leaked to the...

Looking back at the past twelve months, my immediate thought is that we have managed to accomplish a packed agenda. The result of a group of people working as a team and with the common good in mind....

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit Dimech says that the festive season has shown the generosity of Maltese people and the challenges and realities faced by several Maltese prople.  He said that...

During a discussion held as part of a public policy course at the University, in which I participated, we considered the advantages and disadvantages of governance in small countries. Top quality...

Nationalist Party candidate for the EP election Michael Briguglio today speaks about the need to show solidarity with one another....

In our beliefs and values – we the peoples who live around the Mediterranean and its contiguous regions – have developed over centuries and millenia beautiful or at least fascinating...

A book about the history of Bormla’s Banda Club has just been published. It is written by my friend Carmel Galea Scannura who painstakingly researched the subject. It is traditionally held that...