Time and again I have taken HSBC to task at more than one Annual General Meeting for matters on which I had issues. However, I have no issue with the way it diligently takes its time to verify before...

Today the entire Church around the world sings, together with the angelic choirs in heaven, the marvels the Lord has worked – and continues to work – for humanity: in and through Mary. The...

Sometimes I see a funeral cortege passing by. I look at the black hearse with the coffin and corpse inside it and I say to myself: “This man has spent his last day on...

Please allow me to reply to Mr Mario Mifsud’s letter (Whither Malta? TMIS, 1 December). Your correspondent, in my opinion, has totally forgotten what makes us Maltese! He confuses the attainment...

It is extremely rare that I find myself in full agreement with anything that comes out of Mepa. In one of my Maltese language newspaper columns a few years back, I once likened the authority to...

It is not often that you get a figure that transcends race, creed, national borders, political school of thought and above all else, people’s hearts and minds.   Late on Thursday...

After months of negotiations, on Tuesday November 19, the European Parliament approved the Multi-annual Financial Framework for 2014-2020. The overall budget for the next seven years is €960...

Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych will follow up his China visit with a visit to Malta next week as thousands of his countrymen continue to protest his decision to re-enter the sphere of Russian...

Following the agreement in the European Union Council on 18 November, 2013 and the favourable vote by the European Parliament on 20 November, 2013 on the new regulations regarding the Cohesion Policy,...

There can’t be many people of my generation, unless they take a particular delight in being oblivious, who don’t know what Thalidomide is, or more pertinently, what it did to 10,000 of our...