Two days before feast of the Assumption of Mary on 15 August, one feels duty-bound to celebrate the power of this simple and effective Marian prayer – the Rosary, which some call...

The most recent impasse the government has reached with the European Commission illustrates, once again, how no government, irrespective of their political stripe, is willing to impinge one iota on...

Averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, temperatures warmed roughly 0.85 degrees Celsius from 1880 to 2012, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That may not sound like much,...

The Mediterranean migrant situation hardly affects Malta anymore, with the country having become an indifferent spectator to the daily tragedies that occur off our southern shore. But despite the fact...

There is a special group of workers who are working in the full glare of the sun and in the sight of one and all and who have become the admiration of the whole country. We are referring to the...

We are being told that our national airline, Air Malta, is breaking even. The unofficial narrative in yesterday’s Times of Malta goes that under the new Minister for Tourism Konrad Mizzi,...

The past few days have been very difficult for us all, but especially for the old and the frail and those who live without the modern comfort of air-conditioning. The high temperatures we have...

What a sorry state of utter pandemonium the Nationalist Party has allowed itself to descend into.  With a caretaker party leader who seems to be merely biding his time until his time is up in...

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Many decades ago, buildings mushroomed uncontrollably all over this tiny island of ours as land, rock, coast, valleys and soil were shrewdly and insensitively equated to greed and money and no longer...