Looking back on our country's environmental policy documents from past decades, one finds one  broken promise after another. On many issues, we have gone the opposite direction entirely,...

On Thursday, the much-awaited guidelines for the return to school were published in full.  They followed a press conference on the subject the day before. The opening of schools has been a...

After a long three months without any victims, four deaths from Coronavirus have been registered in Malta in the past week or so. They were all elderly citizens, and so the youngest fatality of...

Following its reopening in July 2020, Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum in Mdina has launched new opening hours as of September 2020. The Museum will be open from 10:30am to 4:00pm (last tour at...

Robert Arrigo’s offer to relinquish his role as PN Deputy Leader to Bernard Grech is well-intentioned but it’s also pointless and came too late in the game.  Arrigo said during a TV...

On Wednesday 26 August 2020 I had the joy of celebrating my forty eighth birthday! In every birthday that I celebrate, Our Merciful Lord gives me the grace of celebrating it with a beautiful...

The latest planning applications in Xlendi are just the most recent potential developments in an area of Gozo that is increasingly losing its character. In the past, people would think of Gozo as...

"It started badly, early in March, the last week during which the European Parliament was holding all its meetings "in the flesh". Many MEPs were absent and I returned early to Malta. With no direct...

We live in a society where being successful or being the best is given enormous value. From a young age we're taught to aim for the highest grades, to do well at sport and that winning or achieving...

Cruise travel conjurs up many images of the days of ocean-going steamers, luxurious liners and the exclusive life of the traveller in the early part of the 20th century. But the cruise liners, over...