Nobody ever thought that Donald Trump would be the next President of the United States, but there he is. I had an inkling of what might happen when visiting relatives in the USA and Canada last...

The saying "A week is a long time in politics" is attributed to Harold Wilson, Labour's long-serving UK Prime Minister in the sixties. Indeed, even a day is long enough to bring a lot of change in the...

Although the Planning Authority (PA) had initally turned down the St Julian’s Local Council invitation to participate in its public consultation meeting, last Monday the PA finally found the...

We, the Buhagiar family, from the second Neochatecumenal community of the Parish of Mosta, have been living here, with our children in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the past 11 years.  We would like to...

In the past days I received a personal invitation from the Augustinian Institute in Pietà, the Maltese Augustinian Province, the Faculty of Theology of the University of Malta and the Malta...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald from the original Persian, is marked with a sense of urgency about the transient nature of life. The...

As was done in all sectors: air travel, retail sector, etc. There are no remaining monopolies except, unbelievably, the Gozo Channel.  Dr Alfred Sant is reported to have said that EU rules...

Those so-called “PN switchers” who had voted PL for the first time in 2013 and had then switched back to the PN, influenced by all the inflated, twisted and, at times, invented stories...

The US Presidential campaign was perhaps one of the most divisive we have seen in recent history, with character-assassination attempts most of the time replacing debates of any substance. After a...

Undiscussed up till some days ago, the correspondent bank crisis is now the talk of the town. The contemporaneous visit to New York by the prime minister, the finance minister, the MFSA chairman,...