Despite having defamatory and false allegations directed at me over the past few days by an ill-intentioned individual, my work as Parliamentary Secretary for the Rights of Persons with...

This was yet another eventful week. In Hollywood, the Oscars were given for the best films of 2014, and in Malta we had the National Audit Office (NAO) publishing a damning report on the Café...

The Ministry for Gozo recognises and fosters the public character of urban spaces and their capacity for fostering social cohesion. Its policy is to highlight the relational and civic aspects of the...

We all believe that an advanced society holds dear the ideals of freedom and democracy. Somehow, they are the natural condition of “our advanced society”. The truth is, however, that the...

A few weeks ago, I sought the assistance of your newspaper to complain about the disastrous state that Birzebbuga Road in Safi is. There are potholes all over this road, including a trench which was...

Some erroneously associate fasting with special times of the year, especially Lent. However, as life constantly shows, fasting is part and parcel of being human, let alone being spiritual. In...

I refer to the news report entitled “Former Mayor’s €2000 Libel Win” (ToM, 23 January) where the following was stated: “The government head of communications Kurt...

Intelligent people cannot see the logic in killing birds on their way to make more birds.   C.J. Sciberras   Naxxar...

Whoever watched the Xarabank programme on spring hunting must have noticed Saviour Balzan’s continued insistence that hunters had five months in which they can practise their pastime, in autumn...

The titles have said, over the past days, that an agreement has been reached between the EU’s finance ministers and Greece. And, many, misled by these titles, would have thought that all’s...