Nuisance caused by foreign and local students
Sunday, 10 August 2014, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
We are writing in reference to a letter entitled “Nuisance caused by foreign students” (ToM, 7 August). The letter was signed by Lino Briguglio of Sliema. We concur fully...
Airport charade
Sunday, 10 August 2014, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
On our return flight to Malta, one of the passengers became very ill. The Air Malta pilot duly informed Malta International Airport (MIA) of the emergency situation approximately 35 minutes before...
What induced the Soviet government to ask God for help?
Sunday, 10 August 2014, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A little known incident concerning the communist regime in the former USSR is the fact that at the height of the last war, with the Nazi armies deep in Russian soil, Joseph Stalin, the Communist...
A post-Medjugorje reflection
Sunday, 10 August 2014, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
From 20 till 27 July I was blessed with a unique visit to Medjugorje. I have purposely termed my visit “unique” because every pilgrimage to Medjugorje is a transformative experience bathed...
The perfect religion
Sunday, 10 August 2014, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Humans die. For many people, the thought of death causes great trauma. Religions provide relief by promising immortality and give meaning to sickness and other undesirable events. The more...
Simon wants to keep on digging
Sunday, 10 August 2014, 09:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
It is said that when one finds oneself in a hole, one should stop digging. The Leader of the Opposition insists in doing the opposite. On taking over the leadership of the PN and opposition leader, Dr...
The Aga Khan and the Costa Smeralda
Saturday, 9 August 2014, 08:14
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The following excerpt was printed in the 13 September 1967 issue of Queen magazine, which was a London lifestyle magazine, such as Vanity...
Social dynamics:
We are getting it very wrong, somewhere
Saturday, 9 August 2014, 08:13
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Malta has come on in leaps and bounds in the last decade or so. Just 20 or so years ago, this was a land of taboos and the accepted curtailment of rights and...
Lost and found
Friday, 8 August 2014, 07:55
Last update: about 13 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
In the process of discovering that Libyans were rapidly losing their central government, many Maltese in Libya discovered that their own Taghna Lkoll government...
MIA and tourism:
Taking off
Friday, 8 August 2014, 07:54
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
We all, or most of us, hear them when they are over us, either landing or taking off. It’s planes we are talking about and they have never been...