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Our cold indifference Maltese society has lost its moral compass. The recent case of Lamin Jaiteh, left injured on the pavement by those who ought to have offe

Families in a quandary It is very disappointing that so many UK families will be unable to visit Malta in their school summer holidays. Malta has done brilliantly with its COVID-19 vaccination programme and the UK is not far behind. But the vaccination is not available to children under 18, except in very special circumstances, so families with children aged between 12 and 17 will be unable to visit. It seemed as if there was one reliable and attractive destination for UK families this summer b...

Missing the point about embryos Christopher Barbara (May 6) completely misses the point made by Ivan Padovani’s note which highlighted the incontestable fact that every human adult was at one point a zygote. Whether we should casually call the early embryo a “miniature baby” or not, no biologist could, or would, deny that she was a zygote at the earliest instant of her life. I was once a zygote, even you, the reader of this letter was once a zygote. The argument for abortion is not a scie...

Wake-up call I refer to the editorial ‘Malta’s war on nature’ (April 16)and Madeleine Gera’s letter (April 17). Our incessant ‘development’ and its attendant pollution from dust and concrete – itself a disastrously polluting material – not to mention the particulates clogging our air from traffic, is short-sighted and idiotic. Readers may be interested in a paper from the Annals of the American Thoracic Society – ‘COVID-19 pandemic, a wake-up call for clean air’. It is iro...

Ruffled feathers J. Borg’s feeble attempt to torpedo Johnathan Chard Deeley’s case (February 19, online comments) is truly pathetic. First, it was Ursula Von der Leyen who made the comparison that, “alone, a country can be a speedboat while the EU is more like a tanker”, not Deeley. Second, the comparison can be made, for (to quote Matthew) “By their fruits ye shall know them” and, in the case of the vaccine, the EU “fruit” has been somewhat limited. Third, the EU is busy posing...

Irresponsible statements If anyone had any hope that the supposed new PN leader would offer a more moderate and modern policy than what his predecessor had done, that hope has already faded away. This was made glaringly obvious from the moment Manuel Delia, on behalf of the PN front-organisation, Repubblika, had warned Bernard Grech “not to f*** up… or else”. Grech has proven that he is very loyal to those who succeeded in ousting his predecessor. In fact, he is proving to be even more ne...