Theresa Bajada   For some time I had been longing to go back to Ghana, though I hadn't managed to do so.  Twenty years had to pass for this desire to become a...

Marine mammals have inspired artists, scientists, poets and philosophers for centuries. In fact Aristotle observed as back as 400BC that dolphins gave birth to live young and were fed by their...

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore - this year's showpiece of the Manoel Theatre's BOV Performing Arts Festival was a huge success, appealing to both seasoned opera lovers, as well as newbies to the genre....

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The €200 million deal or whatever one may call it has all the fingerprints of an electoral gimmick, even if it may not be such at all. The way it was announced, first in a debate between the...

The famous slogan Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox, coined by the late Dom Mintoff, has evaporated into thin air. Today, politicians have decided to change this slogan to read Jiena l-ewwel u qabel...

A friend of mine gave me a short novel entitled Love and Myths which has just been distributed in local bookshops. I was intrigued by the title and by the well-designed red cover...

The dramatic tale of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished into thin air on 8 March, 2014, is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in aviation history! No bodies were recovered and not a...

The Holy Shroud of Turin is either the negative image of the authentic story of Christ’s passion and death, and probably of His resurrection as well. Or it is a medieval (1250-1390) re-enactment...

The Health Sector in Gozo is indeed a priority for this government and this week we have had plenty of good news concerning Gozo’s health facilities. With an agreement being signed regarding an...