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...

It was The Guardian, which is firmly in the Remain camp, which announced this week that a poll it commissioned shows that the Brexit camp has surged ahead in the UK.  Up till then, the Remain...

Malta has become unrecognisable from what is was as it began its life as an independent country.  The character, principles and values that once defined this island are lost and...