1+ week, 1+ day ago   (832+ words) Publisher: PrintIt / 2011 As I begin to write, all France is agog with expectation of the Pope's apostolic visit this time next month. This expectation extends beyond the highest levels and is also present at the local church level. The expectation…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (108+ words) Written by David ‘dp’ Attard The exhibition also features a short audio-visual film by Diellza Illgner and FörsterFilm. 'One Image. Many Visions' is open to the public at the Malta Postal Museum, 135 Archbishop Street, Valletta, until 19 September. The museum is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (431+ words) The survival of the Maltese language depends far less on legislation or campaigns than on the small, everyday choices made by Maltese people themselves, Kurt Meli, a freelance interpreter with the EU institutions better known to hundreds of thousands of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (783+ words) The Nationalist Party has said that the first 100 days of the “new” Labour government simply marks the continuation of “13 years of failure”, as nothing has changed between the general election and today. “Today, the Labour Party will try to sell…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1706+ words) It has now been 100 days since Robert Abela's Labour Party was elected to power for a historic fourth consecutive term - and those hoping that this early period of the legislature was going to be quiet have been left sorely disappointed....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1133+ words) There is something profoundly human about donation. We may never know the person whose life is saved by the blood we give. An organ donor may never meet the person who will one day receive their organ. Yet there is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (327+ words) When we talk about poverty, we often think of a lack of money or housing. However, there is another form of poverty that frequently goes unnoticed: the poverty of human relationships, belonging, and social connection. This is social isolation - a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (613+ words) An annual report of the Council of Europe also expresses concern about the reported digital surveillance of journalists via spyware, "foreign agent" legislation adopted or planned in several countries, and the precarious working conditions of media workers in many countries....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (769+ words) These days we are marking the first one hundred days in office of the new Labour Administration, which was once again given a very strong vote of confidence in the election held on 30 May. It was indeed a historic victory,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (499+ words) Last week, I inaugurated a water fountain in a village the square in Zurrieq. It is not a grand piece of infrastructure. It will not stop temperatures from rising, prevent the next storm or solve Europe's climate crisis. Yet it…...