Joining a fruitful adventure
Sunday, 4 September 2016, 08:30
Last update: about 11 years ago
While joyfully recalling my years as a student of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Malta, my mind and heart raced back to the following affirmation I heard again and again during my...
Maltese Missionaries
Sunday, 4 September 2016, 08:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
Sr Rachele Agius, along with the community of sisters in Chak, Pakistan, helps many poor people – not only those from Chak but all those who go to her to seek help. Some travel long distances to...
Traffic: And school hasn’t started yet
Saturday, 3 September 2016, 08:27
Last update: about 11 years ago
On Thursday morning, commuters on their way to work from the South had to deviate around most of the centre of Malta, arriving more than an hour late for work. Apparently, the massive traffic jam...
Politics are back
Friday, 2 September 2016, 08:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
With a public discussion being held by the Nationalist Party’s women section this evening at St Paul’s Bay, political activity is back after the summer recess. Even if Parliament will...
Behind the Monti move
Thursday, 1 September 2016, 09:42
Last update: about 11 years ago
On 2 August, GRTU published a statement, unusually in Maltese only. It was disregarded by the English-language papers and to date has not been carried, as far as is known. That was the day when...
Fish farm pollution: Action pledged not a day too soon
Thursday, 1 September 2016, 09:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
The government’s pledge to take concerted action against the pollution emanating from the plethora of fish farms surrounding the Maltese Islands has not come a day too soon. It is, after...
A successful Salesian Brigade camp
Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 15:38
Last update: about 11 years ago
Joe Camilleri
The Salesian Brigade held its annual summer camp at Ghajn Tuffieha from 8 to 13 August. The six-day camp was jam-packed with activities for the five groups, with about 65 members attending at its...
Is the burkini ban a sign of the West’s crisis of confidence?
Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 09:28
Last update: about 11 years ago
France, or rather some localities mainly in the South, has declared war on burkinis on the beach. Burkini’s are all-enveloping wear which Muslims, mainly, wear to the beach. Not to be mixed...
Reaching the bottom of the box of tricks
Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 10:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
The government has now touched the bottom of its box of tricks. And nothing has worked. When the Panama Papers case emerged, the government played dead for some weeks. But then the force of the...