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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We have recently had a “Hate pigeon week”.    Some weeks ago, pigeons were cruelly massacred with air rifles at the instigation of the Balzan Local Council. Balzan mayor Ian...

Thanks to the many targeted initiatives on many fronts and the sterling work carried out by all tourism stakeholders in close conjunction with the Ministry for Gozo and the various national tourism...