One might ask, what do John Dalli and Caravaggio have in common? Simple. When there was an evident mud-slinging campaign, mainly fomented in-house, ...

Hugo Chávez’s defeat in a plebiscite designed to prolong his rule and increase his power will inspire important changes not only in Venezuela, but across Latin America. Until the vote last Sunday, South America was divided into three blocs: ...

I was amused last week to read a letter in a local daily ascribing all sorts of horrors to the Housing Authority’s ownership policies, and its help with subsidising interest rates in particular. ...

I had a dreamI started writing this page to you from a very windy and rain-swept London. I finished it in the warm sun of Sri Lanka hoping to see England ...

A new apartheid seems to have sprouted in Maltese society. Over the past few days hundreds of young people received their degree certificates in graduation ceremonies marking the successful end of their studies at university. ...

Finance ministers are happier when earnings coming into their country are consistently greater than the purchase cost of imported goods; a trad...

For my sins, pun intended, I am very rarely in agreement with most Vatican standpoints on certain issues, particularly divorce, women priests and celibacy. But when the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, ...

The topic of political discrimination recently came up in the political debate going on in our country. Some politicians tend to deny that political intimida...

The so-called donor scandals surrounding the Labour Party in the UK, and our own local debates about party funding, demonstrates above all else a schizophrenic attitude to the way we do politics in a modern democracy....

A year ago it was reported that the Maltese Embassy in Riyadh had managed to get Saudi tour operators interested in destination Malta (TOM, 24 October 2006). Later, the Excelsior Hotel management ...