Pope John Paul II’s deteriorating health has left us all wondering what might happen if he can no longer carry out his papal duties. ...

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...

In the first quarter of 2001, when the debate about membership of the EU was raging, the government and the Malta EU Information Centre (MIC) had made great issue with a Eurostat publication which showed that Malta stood, using 1999 data, at 52 per cent o...

I have a funny feeling it might be Carnival this weekend. Either that, or our capital city has been overrun by an unlikely army of giant, troll-like... um... things: each vying against the other for the dubious prize of “sorriest excuse for a papier-mâch...

January has all but passed, and the 2005 target set by the government budget of attracting a further 50,000 more tourists by the MTA looms nearer. By our standards, only 11 short months are left...

This week, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly will be discussing, among other items, relations between Europe and the United States on the basis of a report prepared by Forza Italia (EPP) rapporteur Claudio Azzolini....

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