I really do not agree with this pitiful idea of some people who are clamouring for measures to curb criticism – often mistakenly interpreted as “an attack” – of the judiciary...

On Friday 3 June, the Irish Ambassador, Pádraig MacCoscair, opened an exhibition of books written by Irish authors who, in one way or another, were connected to the Easter Rising that took...

From one picture of one lifeless boy to another, an image is finally emerging of the realities and circumstances around migration, illegal, forced, or voluntary.  The monotone colour has assumed...

On 4 July 2013, the Clinical Chairman of the Primary Health Care Department issued a circular addressed to all general practitioners who work in the health centres. The chairman gave clear guidelines...

As time passes, I increasingly convince myself that the globalisation we have been experiencing over the last thirties years, has been a mistake. In practice, the way by which the world economy...

It is useless to say how admirable and resilient Willa is. This 8 year old has shown character that most of us won’t manage to garner over a lifetime.  Let’s face it, thebuoyancy and...

Today, Tuesday 7 June, Malta commemorates one of the five national public holidays.  Being a public holiday many make for the beach, others to the countryside.  The more laid back ones go...

In the eighties and early nineties, I still recall leading environmentalists arguing that Malta’s future lay in high-rise buildings. The argument at the time was that Malta should stop expanding...

When clients, consumers and constituents believe they are being shortchanged, the present fashion is to direct them towards some section or office where they will be heard and given...

Put more simply in English, this is the age-old policy, supposedly first verbalised by Philip II of Macedon and later put to excellent use by Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and the British in India, of...