Now that August is nearly over, the European giant tries to shake off its lethargy and get down to continue tackling what’s ailing it. It has not been an easy summer for Europe. First the...

Summer days are here again, as the song goes, and there are times when flashes of the summers of my childhood intrude on other mundane thoughts. For some years our summer mornings were spent at...

The planning amnesty announced earlier this week has been in the pipeline for 18 months. In the initial stages of the debate – on 8 February in an article published in this paper – I...

The one aspect of the Neville Gafa scandal we should all take for granted is that this man was perfectly comfortable doing what he did – and before he protests his innocence, those Viber...

When the Jerma hotel was in operation, it wasn’t merely generating business for itself on the back of the accomodation it provided. Its residents were of benefit to the restaurants and...

The 100 days of summer, as Bay Radio likes to refer to the ‘silly season’, is probably more than half way there.  As I lay on the deckchair tapping on my Ipad with the Islands of St...

In most cases people are impressed with jugglers. Jugglers throw balls in the air, catch them, and keep them moving so that at least one or two are always in the air, but people are mesmerised, if not...

I found the media stories about how the “extra” umbrellas came to be removed from the beach at Comino quite hilarious. Probably such incidents can only happen in Malta, or Comino if you...

The recent tweet by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna about his views regarding the Planning Authority’s recent approval of high-rise buildings may have ruffled some feathers in certain areas but...

A random taxi driver in Central America gave me a graphic description of how the Maltese man with whom he shared a cabin, on the cruise ship they both worked for in the early 1980s, used to...