I am writing in response to the article written by Max Farrugia entitled “The Message of Medjugorje” (TMIS, 31 August).To begin with, I would like to say a little about who I am. I am a high school teacher ...

It seems that the government and Mepa are taking a different route to justify Qala Creek Project at Hondoq ir-Rummien by making two recent changes....

I refer to the article “Spanish trawler standoff taken to the big screen” (TMIS, 31 August). The article talks about a film being screened in Spain on the standoff between Malta, Spain, and UNHCR over the Spanish trawler Francisco y Catalina in July 2006....

Mr Degiorgio claims that “Gianpula ... commits itself to carry on operating within the confines of the law in full appreciation of the rights of all residents in nearby villages to a good night’s sleep” (TMIS, 31 August)....

The Malta Transport Authority categorically denies the statement issued by Alternattiva Demokratika in which it alleged that old buses would be exempt from new emissions testing procedures....

Kudos to you for publishing the harrowing story of the abused domestics of Hannibal Gaddafi. (http:// www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=74600)...

This week the two main central banks in Europe both decided to leave their key interest rates unchanged, in spite of accumulating evidence that both the euro area and especially the UK are seeing their economies gathering...

The ratIt wasn’t a rat really. It was a mouse. It wasn’t even a complete mouse. It was a mouse’s head. There’s nothing really wrong about a mouse’s head either....

There isn’t much new happening locally (except for a mouse’s head at the Mater Dei canteen – the question is, where did the rest of him go? Yeelch!)....

Summer is over and we are back at work for the last parliamentary year before the European Parliament elections in June 2009. I have been attending the plenary sessions of the European Parliament, ...