Social trust is crucial for capitalism and vibrant democracies. And when those systems weaken, as they are now, it's calling - not cunning or charisma - that can help repair them.

Another year, another parade of roadworks. Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, and Public Works Chris Bonett has once again taken to the podium, this time boasting that 319 infrastructure ...

I attended mass at the Franciscan Church of St Mary of Jesus (Ta' Ġieżu) in Valletta which was commemorating the feast of Blessed Nazju Falzon. The atmosphere was reverent and ...

Day 1755 and the blind priest had just intoned the Kyrie Eleison in the great cathedral of Seville, the great temple that had been a mosque during the time of the Muslims, when the ...

Presenter and animal activist of the Vuċi għall-Annimali programme, Althea Galea, has called for urgent regulatory change on ...

Alex Borg stands one electoral vote of making Maltese political history. A dashing young lawyer hailing from Gozo, Borg has risen through the Nationalist Party's ranks at breakneck speed - going ...

Malta's English Language Teaching (ELT) sector has seen little progress. Despite the number of schools growing to around 34, the flow of international students coming to the ...

I once read a comment on World War 2: it gave man the licence to kill and so life has become cheap. In Genesis 2: 16, God does not permit humans to eat meat. This rule was revoked after the Great ...

The potential collapse of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plays a surprisingly pivotal role in this fitfully diverting, for-background-noise-only, straight-to-streaming movie. Elba plays the ...

"Malta moves closer to achieving UN sustainability goals," screamed some newspaper headlines last week, when the United Nations released its annual report on its Sustainable Development Goals around ...

By the following year, in 1822, the Victory Boat Race was introduced in the Grand Harbour, and the Saint Lawrence boat race ceased to be mentioned. How, then, was the Victory Boat Race initiated?

The Armed Forces of Malta have been left to their own devices so much that today we have an underfunded, demotivated and mismanaged military, like never before. Unfortunately, while our men and women ...