In Malta, politics has compromised the environment for far too long. We live on a small overcrowded island with very little countryside still available. We are slowly gnawing away at what is left and...

Last Tuesday, the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust was observed. In his message for the world commemoration of Holocaust victims of last year, UN...

As widely expected, the Greeks voted in a government which promised heaven on earth u manna niezla mis-sema (and manna falling from the sky)! The only problem is that the state has no money to throw...

I was under the impression that my grandchild was attending a secondary school in Gozo, but it looks more like a military or police academy with the school adamantly insisting that students must wear...

Up to last August, I'd been wrestling with this conundrum ever since we adopted the euro: if these small denomination coins have to keep piling up before you can exchange them for anything worthwhile...

The winter cold season is now at its peak. Temperatures are now very low and it is a well-known fact that older people are adversely affected. In fact, at this time of the year the demand for...

This week, The Malta Independent published an article in which a Maltese Muslim woman said that women who wear the hijab, a simple headscarf, find it difficult to find jobs. The comment section...

This week, the Euro Health Consumer Index issued a report and its verdict on Malta’s healthcare system was damning, to say the least. Aside from the tragic news of patients breathing their...

I have been given the privilege to shadow the sectors of culture, the arts and Valletta Capital of Culture 2018. Many have argued that these are areas of somewhat less importance than the sectors of...

Directly or not, the Islamic State struck against Malta on Tuesday, with its heinous attack on the Tripoli Corinthia. This was an attack on one of the country’s largest private sector foreign...