Le Méridien St Julian's Hotel & Spa has just appointed a new food and beverage team to inject a fresh style of dining at this award-winning boutique five-star hotel. Just back from a...

The first time a banana featured in written history was in the sixth century, where it is said to probably be the first cultivated fruit. Everyone knows the multiple benefits that the banana has, that...

The great King Roger II was a man with a most noble vision. He wanted to unite the peoples living in his country, bring peace and understanding, where all learnt about the richness of each other's...

Bastille Day arrived this year, too, and it seems to me that with each succeeding year the French and Maltese have a better understanding of each other.  Astrid Vella offered me a lift and I...

Alfred Palma   It is an undisputed fact that every writer, consciously or unconsciously, will invariably include in his work not only traits of his own personality, but will also draw...

All artistic idioms are loaded with class politics, as are languages and dialects. In the late 1930s the American art critic Clement Greenberg, whose influential writings have endured much...

Last year, on 13 September, the Secretary General of the Nationalist Party, Rosetta Thake, gave an interview to this paper in which she announced that as a departure from past years, the PN’s...

There is a nagging suspicion that there is more to the whole Freeport expansion controversy than meets the eye.   In fact, the Prime Minister’s recent insistence that the Freeport...

Parliament’s busy schedule came to a short break this week after approving the Bill for Standards in Public Life. This bold legislation, pushed forward by the Labour government, is a clear...

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