The recent decision by the National Council for the Maltese Language regarding the official name of The Netherlands and its language (TMIS, 5 July) has left the public bewildered, and rightly so. The...

The Opposition should be very careful about which bandwagons it jumps on, as amply evidenced by this week’s government ‘hacking’ debacle. The media this week reported on the...

Thousands of parents, pupils and students, writers and authors, translators and interpreters, journalists, broadcasters and publishers, must be grateful to the Minister of Education for his wise...

We refer to the article ‘Deirdre and Robert Hornyold Strickland at Villa Parisio’ by Marie Benoit carried in the Lifestyle & Culture section (TMIS 5 July, 2015) and, specifically, to...

I know that several old timers are proud of the George Cross Medal (GC) emblazoned on the Maltese ensign. I too am an old man, but I am ashamed of the image of the GC on our national flag. The forced...

Dear extremist, you are wholly intent on building the American University of Malta on virgin land. You hear but you do not listen: you don't want to understand that once development starts at Zonqor...

Thank you for delivering a long-awaited and well-merited shake-up to the Brussels bigheads; with the undeniable ticket that there is much more to us Europeans than the bankers, technocrats and large...

The Malta Union of Professional Psychologists (MUPP) in collaboration with the Maltese Psychological Association (MPA) would like to express serious concern regarding the prevalence of racist and...

Recently, a friend of mine called me. With a tearful voice he said: “Father, my wife and I are expecting a child!” Then he passed the phone to his wife and she broke this elating news once...

Among this week’s turbulent Parliamentary sittings, with shouting, counter-claims and points of order, etc, there were also, thankfully, moments of pure farce. Time and again in the past...