Make sure there is adequate safety equipment on-board the boat. Maintain the boat and all safety equipment properly.  Load passengers and gear carefully.  Take an accredited...

Some stories are read once and then forgotten. Then there are others, like that of Sweeney Todd, which started as a serialised piece of fiction more than 175 years ago and still lives on today in the...

The backdrop of Malta Amateur Dramatic Club's production of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (Terrace) is the eponymous Sliema street when British forces are leaving the island in the late...

If you've ever been on the receiving end of emotional abuse or seen someone else suffer at the hands of an abuser, you'll know how confusing and difficult it may be to acknowledge what's happening and...

"In September 2003 I finally arrived in Malta for the start of a new phase of my life. Making the decision to take early retirement from my UK landscape Design business suddenly seemed the right thing...

Brigadier Maurice Calleja passed away last month, on 21 June, at the age of 87. He had reached the pinnacle of a distinguished army career. I write as a neighbour and a friend of the family since...

If abortion laws are not to eventually go across the board the liberals and conservatives need to dialogue systematically and reasonably and meet on common ground. This is not a measure about...

How modern we have become, I have been thinking. You phone GO, or Melita, or whoever, and you get a machine to talk to. If you have ED, press 1, the machine’s voice tells you. If you have...

Many countries celebrate an annual Police Day. Here, in Malta, we do that on 15 July of each year and we do it in grand style. But what is its significance? Over the last few years, we have been drawn...

Platform work had gained, unfortunately, but also deservingly, a negative reputation. Consumers love them and cannot imagine their lives without them, because they offer unparalleled convenience and...