There are things people do which really upset me. Either they make decisions on bioethical issues using no science or no ethics at all, or using neither science nor ethics guided only by strong...

What if a group of international travel writers were to visit Gozo? And what if they were all passionate about history and archaeology? The answer is that they would fall in love with the island....

In human fertilization, two cells – an ovum (female gamete) and a sperm cell (male gamete) combine to form a single cell called a zygote.  This one cell, following rapid cell division...

This year marks the 2400th anniversary of the birth of Aristotle (Aristotélēs). Who was this great and respected man whom Dante Alighieri, in La Divina Commedia, dubbed him “the...

I come from Vittoriosa, and as a child I was an altar boy at the church of the Monastery of St Scholastica in Vittoriosa, prior to becoming a Carmelite friar. I have chosen to write about this...

I have heard the welcome news that work on the restoration of the set of 29 tapestries at St John’s Co-Cathedral is nearing completion. Half of these, 14, depict the life of Jesus and the...

I refer to the Malta Police Force which claimed that “there is no reasonable suspicion of any crime having been committed in the wake of Panama Papers information leaks” (TMI, 8th June)....

Professor Joseph Azzopardi, writing in The Times of 2 June, quite rightly lamented the fact that during the 50th anniversary dinner of the Medical Association of Malta in 2014, no mention was made of...

On 26th February, Imam Mohamed El Sadi, together with 200 fellow Muslims, gathered at the Paola mosque to pray for rain. Allah did not hear their prayers. In fact, Malta had the worst winter...

I refer to the article published online on 11th June entitled “Lija Local Council not consulted about building described as ‘monstrosity’”, and on 12th June in The Malta...