I write weighed down with emotions, captivated by the attack on the journalists of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in France. A tragedy that is unfolding as I scribble some thoughts. It is...

As has become customary on our islands, the last few weeks of last year were  dedicated to accommodate the culmination of charity raising endeavours. Never in my entire life have I...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be one of the guest speakers at a Maritime Conference organized by the School of History at University College Cork. To my surprise, one of the speakers...

I really cannot understand our Prime Minister. On the one hand he pushes to sell our Maltese identity to people with money to spend through the infamous citizenship scheme that led to so much...

This country of ours is a riddle. I just can’t get around to understand what ticks in our collective deliberation.  One jiffy we are flooding telethon after telethon with cash,...

People who, like me, have had ink in their blood since they were born and have grown up reading, writing and loving newspapers, know only too well that the print media has been on a nosedive for the...

This Malta Community Chest Fund has become somewhat of a Cash for Citizens Scheme to compete with the Cash for Passports Scheme, when we go to Midnight Mass at St. John's co-Cathedral and get turned...

  So 2014 is practically over and done with.    Evaluations and round-ups being done. Auld Lang Syne soon cheered.  Countdown before long completed....

One might ask what is the common feature between Midnight Mass and the APS Annual Concert. The answer is in the title itself: St. John's Co-Cathedral. Unfortunately, the connection is not...

The police are back in the news with yet another story about blatant abuse on several counts. The way the victim - Karl Baldacchino - has reported matters to the newspapers (and to the police...