With the killing of yet another protected bird yesterday, a Honey Buzzard, the toll of illegal hunting on protected bird species so far this autumn season has risen to 21 birds that have actually been...

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Malta celebrated the 52nd anniversary of Independence this week. The turnout was much bigger than expected – a very clear and clamorous sign by the people to the government that they are...

I'm off to South Africa this week, to an international conference on wildlife trade. I'll be joining more than 2000 participants at the 17th CITES Conference of the Parties. CITES is an agreement that...

The number of people who are getting a phone call from Pope Francis is growing. It is really a grace that the Holy Father sacrifices some time for you, which goes to show how important you...

Mark A. Sammut   Sorry, I meant A Materialist Revision of Maltese History 870-1919. Point is, I simply love irony.  Oh boy how I loved Professor Yosanne Vella’s ironic...

The Malta Independent on Sunday of 18th September carried two articles on the use of LNG and the LNG tanker now on its way here from Singapore: one by Dr Anne Fenech (p.9) and one by George M. Mangion...

No, it’s not about football. Since June last year my wife and I, both pensioners in our late sixties, have been through the harrowing experience of being emotionally, physically and...

Fr Joseph Saliba or Dun Ġużepp il-Bejżu, as he was known to his people, was born in Żebbuġ on 30th September 1933. He was ordained priest by Bishop Joseph Pace at the Gozo...

Despite a torrent of useless wrangling between the Weapons Office at General Police H.Q., and the same office at St Julian’s Police Station  over the unwarranted confiscation of my fully...