The trekkers who will be walking the 112 km Camino de Santiago in Spain to raise funds for Hospice Malta and FAA, invite the public to an event at Due Mari  Restaurant at Tigné Point where...

It is unusual for the President of the European Parliament (EP) to make the headlines. But incumbent Martin Schultz has been in the limelight rather a lot of late, for all the wrong reasons. One...

At the end of the First World War, voting rights started being granted to wider and bigger sections of the population. Just four years after the war ended, Walter Lippmann, who is most famous for...

One of the main endeavours embarked upon by the Parliamentary Secretariat for the Rights of Persons with Disability and Active Ageing is to bring out the abilities of those with a disability and make...

I very much believe that those who are expecting the Church to come out strongly in the future and enter the political fray on bioethical issues, bar issues regarding the fundamental right to life...

There comes a point in life when it dawns on you that anything can happen at any time. This is a painful, even alarming realisation. But such is the truth of our lives. At the heart of it all seems to...

Genius. That’s what I think of my niece as she destroys me, yet again, at the little children’s game. I’d like to think she has an advantage, seeing that she’s only seven and...

The divide of the euro area countries, between the strong core and the weak periphery (with Malta being an exception: a speck of core on the periphery), is now showing up in the debate about the risk...

The forthcoming European Parliamentary elections are expected to produce a result which increases substantially the representation of the extreme right and eurosceptic parties. So much so that the...

When I first saw Gordon he was reading for a B.A. (Hons) in English at the University of Malta. The baseball cap pulled perpetually low over his forehead screamed “Let me be!”. I...