Last Wednesday marked the European Day recognising 112 as the emergency number - a day where the importance of this phone number is reminded, and where statistics associated with the previous year are...

President of the Malta Chamber of Geologists Peter Gatt has long called for the establishment of a National Geological Service, a call which the Nationalist Party is also making. When speaking to...

International Tourist Guides' Day is celebrated worldwide each year on 21 February. In Malta, the occasion will be marked with a series of guided walking tours in Valletta organised by the Malta Union...

Malta's perennial challenge is not a lack of ambition, but a surplus of geography. Insularity, often treated in Brussels as a footnote rather than a defining condition, functions in practice as a...

When God created man and woman, He created them in His own image. Genesis 1:26 says "Let us make man in our image"! God is absolutely rational and self-conscious, man is rational and self-conscious...

Environmental NGOs are right to describe the proposed Dwejra bill not as protection, but as a carefully packaged act of environmental vandalism. When legislation claims to safeguard a site while...

A report by the International Monetary Fund last week has both resulted in praise for Malta's economic situation, but also underlined the need to change strategy moving forward. "On February 4,...

Prime Minister Robert Abela's latest reversal on compensation for businesses operating from illegal structures following Storm Harry signals a leader once again retreating from a poorly thought-out...

There are many ways to measure devotion to the arts, but directing half a Baroque Festival when having just battled pneumonia surely deserves its own saintly order. Yet there was Kenneth Zammit...

Back in October, I shared Teaser #1 about the much-anticipated second edition of the Malta Biennale. Following the recent press conference held on 5 February 2026, I can now share even more juicy...