I imagined my round belly with the navel at its centre under a harsh bright light as a floating orb. Surrounding me was the surgeon and the nurses who came to me like a swarm of honey bees when I...

Just a couple of hours after reading MaltaToday’s latest public opinion survey result, which showed Dr Joseph Muscat holding an eight-point lead over the PN leader, while the PL had marginally...

In spite of the latest reductions in the prices of petrol and diesel, the price of diesel in Malta is still higher than that of 18 EU Member States according to the European Commission’s Weekly...

The government did an excellent job with the regeneration of Zewwieqa Waterfront at Mgarr. This included the construction of a new, well-designed slipway (although a couple of tie up points would be...

I refer to the gratuitous remarks made in an interview last year with Ian Peter Bugeja in FIRST magazine about the Valletta International Baroque Festival and its artistic director Kenneth Zammit...

On behalf of Wirt San Ġwann and in my capacity as secretary of this local NGO, I would like to point out that a pillbox in San Ġwann is in danger of being demolished to make way for a...

Contemporary society is tragically scourged by loneliness. The North American actress and singer, Anne Jacqueline Hathaway, had the courage to confess: “Loneliness is my least favourite thing...

Restless Catholics are always hankering after new "saints" to importune for "graces". Their current craze is for the "intervention" of the dead Sr Faustina. According to her...

Peaceful coexistence is once again under attack.  Tomorrow, the Patrijotti Maltin are to hold a protest in Qawra to protest against the demand by the Muslim community there for a prayer...

The leading article in The Malta Independent (The Tone is Set, 5 February) highlighted the disease which has seized the Maltese body politic – namely chronic political polarisation....