The very next day after the Pope visited Lampedusa, the Maltese government threatened to send Air Malta planes to take back to Tripoli 102 Somali and Eritrean migrants who had arrived in Malta the...

‘Malta hanina, hobza u sardina’.  This idiom was frequently used in the 70s when the late Prime Minister Dom Mintoff broke ranks with UK and found comfort in the arms of the slain...

“I’m not a racist… but…” has to be one of the most used phrases in Malta and Italy. Everywhere one turns, the conversation turns to boat people and asylum seekers....

National Day reception at Russian embassy   Ambassador Boris Marchuk and his wife Ludmila were on mission in America for several years I believe and both speak English beautifully. It is...

That Was The Week That Was as the old TV programme used to say.   We can well say that the week just ended was a watershed for the country.   We always knew that there was a...

The Malta Jazz Festival, one of the most highly-anticipated musical events of the year, returns  on Thursday and runs until Saturday in the open-air setting of Ta’ Liesse.   For...

There is an army (but no navy...) of barely educated people of all social classes out there right now, on the Internet and in cafes, at parties and round the lunch table, arguing that if the expulsion...

My grandfather Salvu was parsimonious with words.   His greatest joy was to see his sons, daughters and grandchildren gathered together and talking animatedly while he checked that everyone...

The sudden passing away earlier this year, on 5 February, of the former veteran leader of St Aloysius’ College (SAC) John A. Mizzi, caught several folk by complete surprise, and left a great...

I followed with great interest your impassioned statement in Parliament yesterday on the legal and human aspects of recent events involving people trying to seek a better and safe life for themselves...