One can definitely sympathise with the protestations against vaccines based on the freedom of choice and based also on the widespread media scares which were spread while the vaccine was being...

There is a clear difference between the management of tourism and tourism management and this is really a question of attitude, experience and knowledge of what tourism is to a destination.  Is...

It is despicable of the MUMN to use patients to force government's hand in the petty dispute it has in connection with triaging. Blackmail is the only name I can find for the situation. Is...

The debate around the legalisation of abortion has been heavily influenced by moral, ethical and religious arguments. Anti-abortion activists claim to be “pro-life” as they constantly...

The issue of illegally placed caravans has again come up in the news this summer. After Infrastructure Malta finally took action against the caravans which have long blighted the shoreline at...

Last week the Dominican fraternity in Valletta celebrated the feast of St Dominic. The church was fully decorated with its treasures as it has been since my childhood days – with one major...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives has chosen to turn down a request from the Opposition to hold an urgent debate on a motion of no confidence in the Justice Minister, Edward Zammit Lewis,...

First in the list of 18 chapters all dedicated to cnidarians, which include corals, hydras, jellyfish, Portuguese men-of-war, sea anemones, sea pens, sea whips, and sea fans, the chapter by the...

In the mid-1960s, in those two-and-a-half years that Oliver Friggieri spent with us in the Major Seminary, we had a preponderance of people from Siggiewi with us. People like George Grima,...

The Malta Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (MSPCA) has recently embarked on a new Wellbeing Outreach programme. Awarded to the NGO through the Voluntary Organisations Project Scheme...