I wasn’t sure how to start this article. I was hoping to kick off with a good pun, a good play on words or a direct statement that simply shocks....

As a frequent visitor to Malta, I appreciated Dr Stafrace’s comment that a limit of 18 months should be imposed on anyone entering the country illegally after which a decision is made re staying or being deported (TMIS, 24 August)....

I thank you for the opportunity to rebut the serious allegations made by Ray Fabri in his letter alleging that Gianpula operates till 6am (TMIS, 24 August)....

Now that the MOC and the government seem so satisfied and optimistic after the Beijing Olympics, I am still somewhat surprised at this outcome. ...

I bought a new mobile phone from GO Mobile and after 16 days the display developed a fault....

Daphne’s recurrent tantrums on the Maltese language are becoming frankly pathetic. She protests that those of her ilk speak Maltese badly or not at all because their language is, after all, English, and that those who are mangling the native language ...

I had the “unique opportunity” of meeting a coloured person, one of those who seem to roam about freely in this country. ...

“I asked him about politics,” a little girl piped up when interviewed on the news. She couldn’t have been more than eight years old and she should have been playing with her Barbie instead....

In the beginning, says the Good Book, there was water. And in any discussion on Malta’s long-term environmental sustainability, there has to be some deep thought and action about water. As this leader will show, even a short excursus ...

Yes, certain episodes of daily life seem to happen “only in Malta”! Take St Augustine Street in Swieqi. This has been a cul-de-sac for the past 10 years. ...