Another World Cancer Day has come and gone, yet so many patients and relatives continue their fight against cancer. February 4th is not only a day for raising cancer awareness, prevention and cure, it...

Diligent governments can never afford to lose sight of change and innovation if they want to lead and not simply administer a status quo. Innovative and feasible solutions are what make me proud to...

December 2017 saw a spectacular surge in the price of bitcoin, and of other cryptocurrencies, which burgeonedthanks toa craze for initial coin offerings (ICOs). All this prompted a commensurate...

Many feel the dire need of having a friend; in other words, of having someone with whom, as Albert Camus put it, can walk beside him or her. This mutual affective relationship between people...

Challenging times lie ahead for the European Union. Its approach to asylum-seekers surely needs a rethink. Wave after wave of migrants are fleeing war-stricken countries where poverty and turmoil in...

Shortly before our celebration of the birth of Jesus, Pierre Mallia claimed in this paper that abortions are carried out by doctors in Malta in special circumstances. I would argue that he has...

With reference to Guillaumier's letter "Paul's homosexuality", it is curious that he conveniently splashed only one side of the story. Fake news seem to be the order of the day here and abroad and his...

In two terse statements, which arrived in our newsroom almost simultaneously earlier this week, Partit Demokratiku (PD) and Alternattiva Demokratika (AD) said that they had discussed ways of...

Justice Minister Owen Bonnici replied with a "no comment" yesterday when asked, by this newspaper, why the role of leading the constitutional convention had been given to President Marie-Louise...

On 11th February 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young shepherdess girl named Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes in the Southwest of France. The Virgin Mary appeared 18 times in all between February...