Louise Calleja may have not yet come across daily newspaper and on line advertising, as well as adverts on bus shelters all over the island that since Monday 24 January have advertised the fact that the Microsoft software package being offered to students...

The five years I spent at the Sacred Heart Seminary in Victoria between 1981 and 1986 were probably the best years of my life, and the most difficult. After chatting with my classmates, who graduated with me in 1986, they agreed with what I am about to sa...

The following was engendered by the curious juxtaposition of the international commemoration of the Holocaust victims on Thursday 27January, and the recent public assembly in Safi, of a blatantly racist political party....

I sit here frustrated and so angry! Freezing cold at home, because the most efficient gas deliveryman did not bother to come and distribute in our road. We have been waiting for a week....

I refer to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s article titled “The Doll’s House in 2005” (TMIS, 30 January). Yes, I agree but back then, in the 1960s/1970s/1980s, some, or most of the women wanted, wished and chose to get married, have a family and bring up children...

All you hear from the MLP is that this country is in a crisis. Talking to people who have just come back from Sri Lanka or Indonesia, I would say they are using the word crisis too glibly. These are testing times and times are difficult, yes, but do we ha...

The past week’s television discussion programmes have been superb. Int x’tahseb on Smash hosted Joe Saliba and Jason Micallef, Secretaries General of the PN and the MLP respectively. Stephen Cachia, Secretary General of the Green Party was not invited....

After an initial short-lived state of disbelief, the untimely, evitable, tragic demise of an acquaintance subtly triggers off an uneasy sentiment of gloom, anger and then resentment for the immediate provoking circumstance....

Claude (not his real name) was a social worker with the Good Samaritan, a church aid agency in Democratic Republic of Congo. Helping young people, orphans, the destitute and sick people in the war-torn country kept 27-year-old Claude always on the go. But...

It’s scary, isn’t it? Labour has the scent of power and it is already misbehaving. ...