The local council elections are once again round the corner, to be held on 11 March....

Reference is made to the article entitled “NAO report highlights irregularities in payments to Ministry’s private secretariat” (TMIS, 29 January). ...

There are just three men in Malta who believe the economy is picking up. They are Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and the heads of the two major banks, HSBC and Bank of Valletta, Shaun Wallis and Roderick Chalmers respectively....

After reading the article ‘Paedophile priests are Caesar’s responsibility’ (TMIS, 29 January), I can certainly agree that Malta is too devoted to its religion and so may overlook the horrors that occur in the religious community....

I am an expatriate, or so we are called in England. ...

Binge drinking is far from being either a new or an exclusively Maltese phenomenon. ...

Do you want to live on the doorstep of a landfill?...

Culture helps the mind think. Without culture, a nation cannot be described as such. Culture is the basis of a people’s formation, it is part and parcel of what is known as a nation’s “identity”....

Where there is true separation of Church and State, in the hearts and minds of the people as well as in their legal and political system, priests are not viewed as being above or beyond the law, and nor is the Church...

When Prime Minister Gonzi exchanged New Year greetings with members of the diplomatic corps on 12 January, he had some ringing words about the government’s primary goal....