From generation to generation, the customs of citizens in a country get carried over and repeated. One generation follows the practices of its predecessor and copies them till it practises them like...

Opinionist Kevin Cassar considers PN MP Alex Borg to be one of Labour's Trojan horses within the PN since he believes that Gozitan Borg isn't fighting for Gozo's past, let alone its future. This...

From the outside, nationalism seems to be regaining ground after years during which globalisation has been conquering every corner of political and economic governance everywhere. I always believed...

What happened in the last days, just a few kilometres outside of Maltese territorial waters, sent shockwaves across the country and raised some very pertinent questions as to what it meant to be a...

Eyes were focused on that chimney at the Vatican for a considerable time during the past week. The election of the successor of Pope Francis has a relevance extending beyond religion and religious...

"The Opposition is celebrating the damage caused to you," Robert Abela told the crowd gathered for his Workers' Day mass meeting. Opposition members, Abela 'revealed', were "rubbing their hands in...

I recently came across a deeply poignant Maltese song titled "Jien ma naħdimx" ("I don't work") by Karen DeBattista. It is a beautifully crafted, poetic plea voiced by a mother whose daily life...

Gozo stands at a crossroads. As Malta's sister island continues to grapple with development challenges and questions of fair representation, two strong voices have stepped into the spotlight with...

When, occasionally, we come across the question of why potential recruits are turning their backs on a career in the police force, it does not take much to come up with a number of key steps to...

During the dark hours of the night it's as if the sea outside the Grand Harbour is a rather wide river and those lights across the water are not what we know as the Hurd's Bank and the ships at anchor...