In the month of March, Malta is steeped in superstition and in the pagan rites of Spring. First comes the worship (mostly by women)  of the Mother Goddess under the guise of...

Monday, 21st March is a special day for the Down’s syndrome Association.  On this day it celebrates World Down’s Syndrome Day – the 21st of the month representing the 21st...

The President’s recent visit to Parc Prison in South Wales to study its family intervention programme is important, as it draws attention to the need to assess prisoners in the context of the...

Joseph Muscat had told us that Malta needed Labour to win the election three years ago much like Eddie Fenech Adami did way back in 1987. He said this before the election, in full electoral flow. He...

The last few weeks have been rather significant, I believe, but because many readers will have been distracted by local news, I’ll give the highlights here. To begin with, two weeks ago the...

Economies and societies are constantly changing. From an agrarian one, they go through industrialization and then derive growth from services. Services were considered as the final stage of their...

European leaders were yesterday trying to seal a deal with Turkey on the issue of migration and repatriation of migrants in return for closer ties, fast tracking EU membership talks and ...

Several dozen third country nationals who have been given one form of humanitarian protection or another by the Maltese authorities took to the streets of Valletta on Wednesday to voice their...

Malta’s reputation suffered another humiliating setback yesterday after a European Parliament committee decided that the Labour Party’s deputy leader for party affairs, Toni Abela, is not...

The events we are witnessing these days (and hours) seem to reinforce the sensation that we as a nation are prone to the disease of denying self-evident truths. Maybe this is the consequence of...