The controversy on the future of Manoel Island has been going on for ages. The citizen's action some 18 months ago led by eNGO Kamp Emergenza Ambjent and publicly supported by Gżira Mayor Conrad...

All the religious practice that developed in the Mediterranean and Middle East regions, from the Osiris cult in ancient Egypt to Christianity and Islam, carried one way or another a central focus on...

In February, the Catholic Heraldpublished a letter from Ft. Raymond Hickey, an 82-year old Augustinian monk on mission in Nigeria. In his letter, Hickey expressed his concern about the...

Since the beginning of time, it is women who have been given responsibility for their sexuality, fertility and for taking steps to control whether or not they procreate. We'll put aside for now the...

It is undoubtedly the most traditional week of the Maltese year, but it has also become the time when traditions are ignored. Up to a few years ago, the organization Puttinu did not exist except...

In politics it is hard work and results which make all the difference. Mud-slinging and name-calling certainly does not.  Rather, as the last two general election results show us, they leave...

“Mais t’es devenue petite Nonna!” “Oh you’ve gotten shorter grandma!” Those were the first words my 6 year old uttered when he met his grandma yesterday as she...

In just five years of a Labour government, Malta has changed radically for the better. The priorities of the Maltese have also changed a lot, with bread and...

Unless we watch out, the square that fronts the church of St Mary (“the old church”) in B’kara could end up as an image, a model, for the island as a whole. This is not the first...

Wake up call from the Courts …. Pilatus Bank, Gaffarena.  Precisely a week ago, we woke up to the news that Pilatus Bank Chairman Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad had been arrested in the United...