Maltese Missionaries
Sunday, 4 September 2016, 08:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
Sr Rachele Agius, along with the community of sisters in Chak, Pakistan, helps many poor people – not only those from Chak but all those who go to her to seek help. Some travel long distances to...
Politics are back
Friday, 2 September 2016, 08:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
With a public discussion being held by the Nationalist Party’s women section this evening at St Paul’s Bay, political activity is back after the summer recess. Even if Parliament will...
Fish farm pollution: Action pledged not a day too soon
Thursday, 1 September 2016, 09:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
The government’s pledge to take concerted action against the pollution emanating from the plethora of fish farms surrounding the Maltese Islands has not come a day too soon. It is, after...
Is the burkini ban a sign of the West’s crisis of confidence?
Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 09:28
Last update: about 11 years ago
France, or rather some localities mainly in the South, has declared war on burkinis on the beach. Burkini’s are all-enveloping wear which Muslims, mainly, wear to the beach. Not to be mixed...
Reaching the bottom of the box of tricks
Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 10:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
The government has now touched the bottom of its box of tricks. And nothing has worked. When the Panama Papers case emerged, the government played dead for some weeks. But then the force of the...
The people’s voice
Monday, 29 August 2016, 10:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
On the face of it, yesterday might have seemed a normal summer Sunday in Malta – festas all around, beaches filled with people, the normal traffic madness to get back home, etc. But a look...
Earthquakes kill, but mankind murders
Sunday, 28 August 2016, 09:45
Last update: about 11 years ago
Justyne Caruana
As the summer holidays near their end, we note with sadness that violence takes no break. Ironic as it may sound, humanity can be harsher and more ruthless than the unexpected outbursts of Mother...
Environmental concern reaching a critical mass
Sunday, 28 August 2016, 09:14
Last update: about 11 years ago
The more one observes the ebb and flow of one government scandal hot on the heels of another and the public’s very short attention span, the more one grows convinced that the next election will...