When New York philanthropist, Christopher Hyland, approached Mro Joseph Vella and commissioned him to write a Mass with an underlying theme of universal peace, the result was one of the...

Just days after the government announced the dates of this year’s autumn hunting season, which does not begin until next month, the first reports of illegal hunting, in four different locations...

Some days ago right before the morning prayers at Għajn Dwieli Church where I am presently living an old lady approached me and handed me a little beige card of Father William Doyle. As I started...

Local tenor Cliff Zammit Stevens will be holding his 5th annual summer concert on September in Archbishop Square, Mdina.   The programme is to offer various well known, and less known art...

The jury is still out on Francis I, who surprised the world only five months ago when he stepped out onto the balcony above St Peter's Square in Rome as the 266th Pope. Since his election this...

We had expressed our opinion on this subject once, but of course, the powers that be in the Maltese Church took no notice of us.   The Curia’s legal representatives recently made their...

The current year is the International Year of Statistics. At times statisticians, or rather their work, may be perceived as monotonous and tedious. On the contrary - statisticians write informative...

The European Union last week announced that the eurozone had finally emerged from its longest recession period ever.   Politicians Europe-wide back slapped and smiled. The worst is...

When speaking to foreign friends of mine about the Maltese language I am very often told how remarkable it is for a population of less than half a million people, to have managed to preserve their...

The problem of high prices for gas needs an immediate solution. A policy based on privatisation is not going to solve the problem of high gas prices.   The solution must be political...