The social media is regularly agog with complaints and protestations over the fact that Malta is suddenly replete with foreigner workers who cannot speak the national language. Many of them working in...

Protection of the environment is not achieved in proportion to the number of authorities established to deal with the environment, resources and land use planning. In fact, subject to sound...

At present we are enduring more than our fair share of troubles on the home front.   Families face indiscriminate power cuts, exorbitant costs for students and women who work to get around...

I cannot understand why positive news from the Catholic Church does not get much coverage in the local media. Perhaps, the contractors’ lobby is too strong on our Island. However, the TOM did...

In her column in this newspaper, Marlene Farrugia was tempted, as I was, to write a light non-political piece about the beauty of life, and romanticize in poetic prose the wonders of a Maltese August...

The time has long come for somebody to write a history of the Maltese economy in modern times, say from the end of the Second World War to right now. Extended narratives about political and even...

I will tell you all about Pebbles in a moment! Let’s start from the very essence of being human.   I think that life at times or should I say very often, ‘gives us’ lemons...

The Labour Party’s pre-2013 election battle-cries are coming back to haunt it big time. When in Opposition, the Labour Party laid its foundations for its victory on issues which it felt...

Last week, I had the opportunity to meet a good number of friends at my home town – Hamrun.  I re-lived a string of experiences and emotions from the past.  But more importantly,...

This year’s Silly Season is to be dominated by Marco Gaffarena’s friendship with Beppe Fenech Adami and Simon Busuttil’s libel cases. Dr Busuttil has asked for his five libel cases...