There’s lots of talk on the new normal. Health authorities around the world are encouraging their citizens to get used to wearing face masks, to respect social distancing laws and wash their...

Moments of crisis are always moments of change. Whether they turn out to be moments of growth or of regression, however, depends entirely on us. While Malta, like the rest of the world, was straining...

If there is one area in which a new normal is setting in, its education. The closure of schools is unprecedented and home-schooling, with all its implications, has introduced dynamics that parents,...

It is said that a lot can be discerned from the way in which one treats one’s heritage – what is recognised as having value, how well one understands one’s past, and how well it is...

There is already anecdotal evidence that the self-distancing imposed by COVID-19 is changing people’s payment habits – and the Chief Officer for Banking Operations at the Central Bank of...

With social isolation being as strong a risk factor for illness and mortality as smoking or obesity, what impact is the current requirement to distance ourselves from each other having on our...

Each generation is marked by something which happened as they were growing up, the older generation still speaks of World War 2. Those who grew up in the 60s, 70s and 80s speak of black and white TV,...

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It might sound like a terrible cliché, but life and experience have shown that eventually there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Over the past few months, life as we know it has come...

Much has been said over the past few weeks about the Maghtab waste-to-energy project and, as is always the case, negative headlines make more waves than the positive ones.  News about protesting...