Life is an excellent cradle for dialogue. Without dialogue,  life simply ceases to be what it is and should always be – life. That is why, in his address to the participants of the...

“Cogito ergo sum” or, in English,“I think, therefore I am”, said René Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher. Thathas changed now changed: today it’s more...

In my opinion, there is something very ‘customer-unfriendly’ about one particular HSBC tariff, along with the bank’s procedure for handling complaints. If your only accounts...

The ‘Year of Mercy’ was the misnomer of the year. At the start of the ‘Holy Year’, we were told by a local priest that the ‘floodgates’ of Divine Mercy would be...

I am very grateful to the Mission Fund Mosta for sending me €2,000 to help mein providing assistance in the form of scholarships for tertiary education to young girls in this rural area of Santal...

It seems to be the Labour Party’s destiny, that whenever it is in power, it misses an important appointment and that in a rather grand way. In 1997, when Malta was the European Capital of...

Charles Flores’s lament for the Nationalist Opposition (TMIS 1 Jan. 2017) has some qualities to commend it, but balanced analysis and accurate information are not among them. Take his...

In Cologne on NYE 2015, there was, we all remember, mayhem as the girls in the crowd, out to enjoy themselves, found themselves surrounded, then groped and then attacked by hordes of North African...

All the reviews of Malta's economy by the various ratings agencies and also by the European Commission have generally praised Malta's economic record, but they also warned against a runaway...

The government’s announcement that the prices of both petrol and diesel have been, as of yesterday, raised by four cents per litre has gone down like a lead balloon.  And in so doing the...