Dear Tonio,Hi. How are you? I hope you are well. Sorry I haven’t kept in touch lately. ...

Despite all the gearing up for the forthcoming local elections, despite the inevitable pictures of party leaders with their candidates, despite all the analysis that will follow, only one thing is certain about these local council elections. ...

I refer to Mr R. Camilleri’s letter “Flooding in Swieqi” (TMIS, 5 February). I am one of the five residents in Triq it-Tiben,...

Alternattiva Demokratika recently published its first set of proposals on rent reform. In comments made on these proposals to another local paper, the Minister of Social Solidarity was once again on the defensive....

It is easy to describe the recent fiery events involving multitudes of Muslims protesting against the publication of a series of third-rate cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed,...

A number of letters have appeared in the press discussing the orthography of loanwords in Maltese. The main question is whether loanwords should be integrated into...

According to a short news item in Gallarija, (TMIS, 18 December 2005) Toni Camilleri sive “It-Tommi’’ of Naxxar is “Malta’s last exponent of tanbur playing”....

May I bring to the notice of all the persons concerned that it would be ridiculous to have euro coins with a picture of the Baptism of Christ in St John’s Co-Cathedral....

A few weeks ago Hamas, which has traditionally vowed to destroy Israel, won the Palestinian general elections. Just a few days later, on 27 January, it was the international Day of Memory of the Shoah. ...

Way back in the sixties, I remember my father commenting that UK Conservative Prime Minister Harold MacMillan would lose the next election and how astounded I was that “Supermac” could be so mistrusted. ...