As US Secretary of State John Kerry returned to the Middle East last week, the American message to the Israeli and Palestinian leaders was clear: It's time to start making hard...

I don’t really remember many things from when I was a little boy: it was so long ago. But there is one thing I remember vividly: I was very good on 24 December. I hung up my stocking and...

The seventh personal exhibition of the artist Chris Ebejer is being held at the Banca Giuratale in the heart of Victoria, seven years after his last exhibition in the island of Gozo.   The...

Teatru Salesjan will be hosting its first concert for 2014 next Saturday, 11 January, at 7.30pm. This will be the first concert from this season’s ‘Young Artists Series’, which is...

The first in the 2014 series of cultural presentations organised by Din l-Art Helwa on 9 January 6.30pm focuses on industrial heritage, an important field of our cultural legacy that we in Malta tend...

The famous eight-pointed Maltese cross is of mediaeval origin. It was first adopted by the ancient maritime republic of Amalfi, which lies on the Costiera Amalfitana, or Amalfi Coast, between Salerno...

On New Year’s Day, I was watching the news items on a foreign news channel and a particular sequence struck me as odd. One of the main items in the news was about the current British paranoia of...

After a mere two-and-a-half years, the Arriva-driven public transport system this week succumbed to its injuries and died what can be considered a natural, and perhaps inevitable,...

Love your pet, unless you live in a flat   Come, sit with me. We have started the New Year, and hope to leave the bad of 2013 and welcome 2014 by being good Sallotians.  I would...

While I am in favour of civil union, I do not agree with unconditional adoption.   I see nothing wrong with homosexuals and lesbians adopting the biological children of their partners. Nor...