Many of the people appointed to prominent roles by Joseph Muscat, or who the former Prime Minister surrounded himself with, have been embroiled in serious scandals and have been forced to step down in...

There is a growing issue in Malta about rights to walk in the countryside. It is of course a very sensitive issue, as encouraging masses of people to go to certain places would lead to their immediate...

"Forty-eight years ago, I started keeping a personal diary.  Who would have told me that I would be referring to the 2020 entries to write this COVID Diary. When the dreaded Corona virus...

Tourism planning in Malta and Gozo has always been a "top-down" process;  in 1925 when the Malta Tourism Committee was first set up in April by the official decree of the Senate, this was a...

The Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) of the Council of Europe (CoE) has issued a Guide to Public Debate on Human Rights and Biomedicine as a tool to assist member states in involving the public in...

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This week saw more seismic developments in the Daphne Caruana Galizia case, with the first testimony of Vince Muscat in court against the two Degiorgio brothers who are accused of being his...

"I am coming as a pilgrim, as a penitent pilgrim, to implore from the Lord forgiveness and reconciliation after years of war and terrorism, to beg from God the consolation of hearts and the healing of...

The new round of Covid-19 measures announced by the government on Wednesday came rather late, but they are welcome, nonetheless. The government, facing mounting pressure and skyrocketing daily...

Social media was buzzing these last few days over a controversy that seems to have arisen due to the fact that an individual was fined by law enforcement officials for not wearing a face mask during a...