Some of us over the last few years have been feeling like misfits in Malta’s political field. As much as political leaders from the major parties try to make believe that all is well in their...

Between the threshold of Castille and that of a political party meeting, there needs to be a strict demarcation line.  Just to make things perfectly clear to anyone who harboured any doubt: a...

After an exhilarating trek around still-unspoilt Comino last Wednesday, at around 3pm it was time for my wife and me to make our way down to the jetty, a miniscule concrete platform, the surface area...

The Malta Federation of Organisations Persons with Disability (MFOPD) is the national umbrella organisation for the disability sector and is the voice of all people with a disability in the Maltese...

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PM Joseph Muscat has announced that the government will be launching the biggest open space project in a generation. That’s all well and good, but should it not be the other way around? Should...

Today, the Second Sunday of Easter, the Universal Church celebrates with great joy and hope the Divine Mercy. Liturgically, this Sunday is called Divine Mercy Sunday. On Divine Mercy Sunday, a...

Every year, during ‘Holy Week’, we are regaled with stories of the ‘miraculous’ statue of the ‘ecce homo’ in Valletta  and the ‘miraculous’...

I would like to say a big Thank You to the Mission Fund (Malta) for their recent very generous financial support for our work at ‘The Bamboo School’ in the West of Thailand, very near the...

In the light of Workers’ Day, various aspects of employment in Malta have recently been put under the spotlight. Meanwhile a series of statistics have been published which are quite worrying and...