Children love summer. They simply love to play by the sea, in the sea and on the sand. Many go to the sea loaded with bright-coloured plastic buckets, spades, castles, and of course, the inflatable...

In the last few days, there were two news items which interested me. The first one was the General Workers Union’s proposal expressing the need for the Maltese to start procreating again if we...

Land in Malta is the scarcest and most valuable resource. Clear limitations should exist regarding what percentage of land available is to be allocated to developent. With time, the demand for...

There is no way that former Labour Party treasurer and electoral candidate Joe Sammut could have done what he has been doing without a network of support from individuals, unpaid but more likely paid,...

The welfare safety net in our country is something we should be proud of, and I suppose most of us are.  Whilst we can argue till we turn blue in the face that we need additional resources to...

The Feast of the Assumption, in common parlance, known as “Il-Festa ta’ Santa Maria” which was celebrated last Saturday is intertwined in our socio-economic, religious, historical,...

The family: locus of shelter and love  When the silvery moon glimmers in the evening summer sky my mind dwells upon those who at the end of a day’s work return home. Many open the door of...

Apart from the freak weather we had – the kind of which I enjoy – the Santa Marija week this year will be remembered for the unprecedented decision taken by the government to sustain a...

The fact that the Government should not have guaranteed the ElectroGas loan is to be found in the company’s statement issued after the Opposition had lambasted the fact that Bank of Valletta is...