As choked up and teary-eyed Adrian Delia put it yesterday, there are hardly more deserving causes than the Dar tal-Providenza. “The tougher the challenge,” he said, “the more God will provide”. So by his account, it must have been divine intervention that convinced a Tunisian company that has barely landed on the island to hire [...]

With apologies to William Wordsworth I wandered vaguely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of horrid carbuncles; Beside the sea, beneath no trees, Eyesores staring me in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky [...]