This year I kept a promise I have made to myself on consecutive years: to escape from the Stella Maris blitz. When I made it known that I was going to Sicily, and why, some friends tried to dampen my...

In my recent contribution on Somalia, published in the Malta Independent on  Monday 12 August 2013,  I may have sounded to many readers too optimistic about the new prospects for...

One of the most ambitious global ecology schemes put forward to date has suddenly come crashing down as the proponents of it are massively let down with promises broken by many of the world’s...

An exhibition of illustrations by Monica Beisner of Ovid’s Metamorphoses was held in August last year at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta as part of Evenings on Campus...

Priscilla Ainhoa Griscti is holding an exhibition of her art until 30 September at the Cathedral Museum in Archbishop Square, Mdina.   Dans le Rêve (In a Dream World) is a very unusual...

Chelenham   Tiny Malta has its limitations and the tourist brochures with deserted beaches and the Blue Lagoon look appetizing without people and seacraft. But the reality is very different....

Many Maltese left their homeland in search of new pastures overseas. This was especially so during the period after the Second World War and up to the late 1960s, as hordes of Maltese travelled mainly...

One can perhaps surmise that Malta responded to the culture of art and craft in marble during the building of the new city of Valletta around 1567.  It was in this domain that the classics had...

The regeneration of the city of Zabbar continues.   Following the success of large scale activities organised in the last four months by the Zabbar local council and the local clubs and...

Many say that the current government gets its way and silences all criticism through the deployment of fear. In a way, but really it's a lot more complicated than that. Fear alone makes people...