Time to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus I went to Maltapost to buy some Christmas stamps to use on my Christmas cards. I was disturbed to see that, instead of depicting the typical nativity scenes or the Christ child, related to the birth of Our Saviour, as in previous years, Maltapost has this year issued stamps with the theme of Santa’s workshop. They show Santa, elves, candy sticks, bells and wreaths. A 2000 Christmas stamp. Photo: Shutterstock.com Are we trying to be smart this year? Do we want to ignore the fact that, at Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Baby Jesus? This is the time to treasure our roots not just discard them with the lame excuse of hurting the non-believers who live on the island. Rejecting God in our daily life will only create more chaos in a world that is already in turmoil. Josette Gallon – St Julian’s Held hostage The PN’s or, rather, the PN establishment’s decision, to try and block the appointment of former chief justice Joe Azzopardi as the new commissioner for standards – despite the fact that the PN’s supposed leader, Bernard Grech, had given his consent to the prime minister, both verbally and in writing – has, once again, confirmed that...
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