We should like to add some comments to those of Professor Pierre Mallia (Independent, 31 October). We welcome and support his call for better end-of-life and palliative care, and for established...

On 28 September afternoon Caroline Galea spotted an injured man who happened to be a migrant worker dumped with pain and crying on a curb in the area of Selmun Mellieha.  The man happens to be a...

For some uninformed people, the parliamentary debate that follows the Budget speech every year is mere drudgery. Yeah, they say, ministers will talk about their portfolios and the positive impact from...

This book is the last of the Occasional Papers that APS Bank published as long as Professor Delia was its chairman. Then the series seems to have been discontinued. It is true that by and large...

The attention of policymakers, businesses, consumers, and young people, is increasingly converging towards environmental sustainability. Broadly speaking, there are currently two items that are...

There will not be an early general election this year. Notwithstanding the Opposition’s insistence on pulling the country into election frenzy, the government is focused on governing. The...

This week we heard a declaration from the WHO concerning several factors responsible for the increased spread of the coronavirus disease in Europe. A major factor is the low vaccination rates in some...

"'Why Malta'? The question I was frequently asked by my friends. Basically, my husband's boss in Japan (although a genius in his field) was an ass and the working hours were too much. It was the only...

Author: Victor Aquilina Publisher: Kite Group, 2021Pages: 380pp Malta has the lives of many thousands of German and Italian soldiers on its conscience', Field Marshal Erwin Rommel wrote in late...

The Taliban have re-emerged and have recaptured Afghanistan in a span of a few days and weeks and have also formed a government to lead the Afghan nation after a gap of around two decades. The...