6. International relations and participationThe reality of a register that is among the largest in the world, has increased the responsibility Malta has to meet its international commitments and to participate actively in international shipping fora. ...

By and large, the New Year’s Eve festivities were not marred by alcohol related injuries or deaths and it is heartening, bearing in mind the tragedies of Asia, to note that no individual tragedies were recorded due to excessive indulgence....

The Easy Line telephonic system of paying for calls is a blessing for whoever is responsible to honour telephone bills. Especially more so for those landlords who lease out their premises on comparatively short term, and prefer to retain in their name, th...

Could not the heavenly message that the angels did sing “Peace on earth to men of goodwill” be given a chance to be fulfilled in our days if man, with heart, soul and mind, did make a now-or-never gigantic effort to grasp the occasion of this paralysing a...

Just a few weeks ago, I chanced briefly on an episode of Xarabank. I'm not at all sure what it was meant to be about, although judging by the antics of the panel I imagine the topic was something like “How to talk loudly and interrupt people... repeatedly...

A front-page story, carried prominently in another section of the Press last week, highlighted the news that “the European Commission concluded that Malta is on track to correct its financial deficit and told the European Council no further recommendation...

Last January, I had postulated that, if current trends in trade union membership and recruitment strategies persist, one could expect the UHM to reach and even overtake the GWU in the near future. With pensioners included, the UHM-GWU membership gap may b...

I write this week about people who I consider my professional colleagues and, in a small media world where dog is not supposed to bite dog, this article may be considered, at least to those who are the subject of my writing, as being somewhat infra dig. ...

The tragedy of the Egyptian man who drowned off Ghar Lapsi as his brother watched only serves to remind us that there are no facile solutions to what is rapidly becoming a ‘boat people’ problem. The term ‘boat people’ was coined in the late 1970s, when Au...

I read your comment in Odds and Ends (TMID, 13 December) about L-Istrina and I couldn’t agree more. ...