The summer swimming spot of Birzebbuga has been hit by yet another oil spill this week and tests are currently underway to establish whether the Qajjenza area is fit for bathing. This is the...

The fact that the European Union’s resolution before the United Nations seeking a mandate to take military action against Libya’s networks of human traffickers has gone nowhere fast since...

Maybe it’s the extreme heat. Maybe it’s the silly season turned incandescent. Or maybe it’s the cumulative result of so much liberalization carried out much too soon. The fact...

All it took, yesterday morning, was three men and some roadworks, helped by two wardens in the searing sun and all traffic to and from Gozo and Mellieha was blocked. This stretch of the road, the...

Over the past decades, many had foreseen a time when Maltese festas lose their attraction and crash out of circulation. The facts we are facing these summer weeks show that quite the opposite is...

Since the fall of the Gaddafi dictatorship, and due to the widespread dispersal of his huge arsenal, power in Libya has been in the grip of armed groups of various descriptions and names. For the last...

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It used to be the custom for a priest to walk in front of the Pope at his coronation Mass holding aloft a jar of burning spices and chanting to him: “Sic transit gloria mundi”....

I am sure that my memory is much better than Daphne Caruana Galizia’s. Why do I say so? ...

The Diocesan Commission for Justice and Peace issued a paper on housing matters that focused on the increase in property prices over the past years, and the consequence of this on Maltese families. ...