No matter how much they say that they lost by a whisker, the SHout campaign must look within to discover the reasons why spring hunting will continue for years to come. Losing by one vote is as big a...

We’re simply not talking about what happened in Garissa, Kenya. No, really: I’m sorry, but in relative terms, no one is. Is it the geographical proximity or the colour of their skin that...

Throughout this Sunday morning the Electoral Commission will supervise the counting of the votes cast in yesterday’s spring hunting abrogative referendum. The first reliable projections of the...

I always feel like stamping my feet and singing out Dave Clark’s sixties wonder hit Glad All Over – alone, in some isolated room of course, as I can neither dance nor sing – every...

On 1 May 2004 the Maltese Parliament ratified the Accession Treaty to the European Union, becoming a full member.   Eleven years have passed since that signing by the Maltese Prime Minister,...

The President of the Republic is once again in the news. And rightly so. After a year in office, it is expected of the media to analyse her tenure in office. The news is all positive and in awe of the...

Last Wednesday, the Electoral Commission made it a point to urge relatives of patients being treated at Mater Dei Hospital to take the patients’ voting document to the hospital to allow them to...

The arguments for and against shooting and trapping birds in the spring have, over the last few weeks, taken the occasional odd turn. But the central point remains: if you consider yourself civilised,...

Mental health is never an easy subject to write about.  The stigma that shrouds this issue is immeasurable and heartbreaking.  Even though so much effort and resources have been...

For those who believe in eternal life Good Friday is associated, for good reason, with deep spiritual reflections.  Such contemplations vary from one person to another. Some seek to be alone, go...