Christmas – the season to be jolly and the time of year when the Maltese like to indulge in an abundance of food and spend some quality time with their loved ones. It is also the time when the...

A friend of mine was heading back to Malta from a non-Schengen country. When she handed her passport to the immigration officer, he checked it and, before he gave it back to her, snidely asked:...

Regardless of the number of signatures and snus the Nationalist ex-Sliema deputy mayor Silvio Zammit manages to obtain for his petition in the hope of making the authorities reconsider their ban on...

Due to forming part of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee within the European Parliament it has been my task over the years to monitor developments occurring in Turkey, especially in view of...

Some years ago, a supermarket with this name was set up in Malta and quickly became very popular. Then it folded and collapsed and many people got hurt. The case is still being fought about in the...

One of the major problems facing the Labour Government since taking office last March has been the regular flow of irregular immigrants reaching ourshores.  According to the data included in the...

On 24 November, well before the activities which led up to L-Istrina, The Malta Independent on Sunday had run this story:   “One normally associates the Community Chest Fund with...

If an electronic genie were to spring out of your tablet and promise to grant you three wishes, would one of them be to have a tattoo done?  But what was it like, years ago, when life was...

Life can be so ironic.   Michael Schumacher spent years taking part in one of the most dangerous sport disciplines, Formula 1 racing. The seven-time world champion raced at 300km per hour...

In the wake of the Malta government’s adjustments to its scheme to sell EU passports – and let’s make no bones about it, for that, and not Maltese citizenship, is the commodity under...