State agencies for social workers are having to resort to 'quick fixes' to address the significant shortage of social workers in the country, by bringing in unqualified persons for the role, PN MP...

There is so much that is being said and written about abortion these days. The subject has been brought to the fore once again after the government presented an amendment to the law which speaks...

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Perhaps as it currently reads, the proposed amendment to our abortion law leaves too wide a discretion to the medical practitioner which might be ripe for abuse. When is it justified to terminate a...

Operetta is best summed up by the Cole Porter lyrics: "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated flees do it. Let's do it. Let's fall in love." It certainly has a strong following in Malta. Cav....

Just two weeks ago in an interview on a national newspaper the Prime Minister affirmed that the government does not have a mandate to introduce abortion in Malta.   Two weeks later, the...

Anthony Zarb-Dimech Considering its small size, Malta has a rich history in cigarette, cigar and tobacco manufacturing. A small island became a big player in cigarette manufacturing, not only to...

Dr Francis Zammit Dimech has published a monograph on the role, duties and obligations of the Public Service Broadcaster in Malta. Although there are a number of writings on this subject, this is the...

Novelist Stephen Cox was last seen some two years previously when he vanished to the East. Since then there had been postcards. Then silence. Now his friend Liz has received a strange parcel that...

I see the authorities are getting twitchy, at last, about in-car phoning. And about time too. The other day I happened to be driving towards Valletta. Along the way I was confronted by the...