Within the next month or so the government is due to take a decision the importance of which puts all other government decisions in the shade....

Contrary to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s experience, I absolutely relished the peace and quiet of the closed shops and empty streets on Good Friday....

When you manage to acquire a piece of land, either by buying it or through an inheritance, you will always have to fork out money, one way or other....

I wonder whether the Sliema local council and the environmental officers know what is happening in Sir Adrian Dingli Street, Sliema, notably in Dingli Circus....

A true understanding of self involves an acceptance that we are a part of a community, a society of variant opinion to be respected. The truth for “I” is my outlook on the matter and how I am touched by the experience....

Four million pilgrims gathered in Rome yesterday to pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II. Many more millions turned on their TV set to follow what was happening at St Peter’s Basilica....

A nine-year-old Jewish boy stood outside a church to wait for his Catholic friend. A lady emerged from the church and, seeing the Jewish boy, asked him what he was doing there. “I am waiting for someone,” he replied. ...

Local councils have become part and parcel of our local community and, generally speaking, they have helped to give a new image to the locality under their responsibility. ...

Reference is made to Dr Colin James Hamer’s letter (TMID 2 April). The megalithic temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra have two separate entrances and as such are considered as two separate sites. ...

By this time, the fall-out from the last round of local council elections has settled down and the spin doctors, who worked overtime to construe their respective interpretation of the results, have exhausted their arguments....