I am not fond, not even remotely, of carnival and the ancillary activities which are intrinsically related to it.  Admittedly, over the years, most of the carnival events have improved...

The more I see how things are now developing, here and abroad, increasingly the temptation is to conclude that political initiative is taking the shape of cultural manoeuvering. It adds up to an...

In the past weeks, there were a number of media reports about our government's initiatives in bitcoin and blockchain. These are two different sectors but as they are linked to  digital...

In the Oscar-nominated movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, an anguished mother seeks justice for her murdered daughter. After months pass without the culprit being caught, the mother...

The 23-storey Pender Gardens high-rise is nearly completed, after nearly 10 years of continuous construction activity. The application for the 31-storey Mercury House was approved last month and next...

Each day and every utterance from the Prime Minister is drawing our reality farther and farther away from life as we know it.  People can feel the tug and the uncomfortable sensation that nothing...

"We're going to play "A Hero's Life", an overjoyed Sigmund Mifsud told me on the phone.  "This is such a big thing for us!" Indeed it was.  A Hero's Life is, of course, Richard...

I get quite taken aback when someone asks me why the EU is not doing anything about widespread corruption in Malta. It does happen quite frequently and I sincerely feel that these things should be...

Big projects have always been an incessant temptation for Maltese governments, on both right and left. That is understandable. With such projects, one could face up to a substantial part of the...

In June 2013, Government had gone on record saying that it intended to substitute the regional local plans with three generic plans – one for Gozo and Comino, one for the whole of urban Malta...