It was only a matter of time before the hunters slipped up. They claim that the majority of them are law-abiding and non-violent (a bit rich, when you claim a passion for killing things with a gun),...

Earlier this week, the Ornis Committee recommended that the next spring hunting season should be opened. The government obliged on Thursday by declaring that, subject to the result of the abrogative...

One would be tempted to query Education Minister Evarist Bartolo's lament in Parliament last week that parents in Malta still look at culture and the arts as "a waste of time", particularly at a time...

The Pyrotechnic Association is supporting the Yes vote not because it sees a threat to the Maltese festa, but because their aspirations to have uncontrolled fireworks are perceived to be under threat....

We could say that this winter has been particularly tough weather wise.  We have had heavy downpours, really strong winds and very low temperatures for quite long periods. The meteorologists...

Joseph Muscat has been in power for only two years. Yet, in some respects, he is behaving like one of those Third World dictators. In tin-pot democracies, the governing few and their lackeys are...

Toni Abela, deputy leader of the Labour Party, had the brass neck to say to the media yesterday that there is no place for Giovanna Debono, the former Gozo Minister, in politics, on the basis of the...

The main objective for every political party is to try and convince the electorate that they should be voting for ‘them’.   Politics in all truth is a complex mind game and the...

In politics two years are a rather short period to draw definitive conclusions. One can only look for and detect some characteristics, some of which may be very encouraging and positive while others...

Recently, I had the opportunity to meet an extremely informed Franciscan priest, Sebastian Camilleri. Originally, he was from Ħamrun and his name was Emanuel but as was the custom then, it was...