An invitation to a Christmas concert at St Patrick's in Sliema, a church which is so much part of my childhood and teenage years, was most welcome as all I had to do was walk down a few metres from...

After last night’s feasting, and the sleeping off of whatever we took, the cold clear light of the new day, the first light of the new year, (hopefully) clears away the cobwebs of the night and...

There are so many issues to potentially address in this final editorial of the year: the tragic loss of Daphne Caruana Galizia (which Noel Grima does in fine fashion in his opinion piece), the...

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Many people I know would say that fiction - by which I mean "good literature" (i.e., I do not have Dan Brown, Stephen King, etc, in mind) - is just a waste of time. Better read a self-help book, or a...

Beginning a new year tomorrow is only a chronological sequence of the country's progress that builds on the resilience of our people - as shown over the past year - and on lessons learnt through good...

'Boy, oh boy, where to begin?' This is how Alice Taylor set the tone for her piece in The Malta Independent on Sunday (24 December), conjuring up a mental image of herself rubbing her hands together...

I once heard a preacher saying that to make resolutions for the New Year is certainly not an act of God. Instead, he shockingly likened it to a devilish act. Honestly, despite all his good intentions,...

A recent IFSP seminar attended by over 200 practitioners discussed the impending imposition of a beneficial ownership register for all forms of a legal vehicle be it a company, a partnership, a trust...

The European Commission has proposed to ban seven new psychoactive substances (NPS) across the European Union, in addition to nine others banned earlier in 2017, also known as 'legal highs'. The drugs...