If I had to choose two words to describe this year’s budget I would use “missed opportunity”. In a budget speech ironically called Investing for the Future, Minister Edward Scicluna...

The best analysis that could be attempted of the 2018 budget should focus on how the fiscal space the government presently enjoys is going to be used to guide future developments. It’s been...

Any otherwise sensible and politically attuned person who campaigned for Adrian Delia to become leader of the Nationalist Party should by now be undergoing a dawning realisation of something akin to...

This has been another eventful week. Jerome Frendo:  Losing one of yours is always very difficult to fathom and more so at such a tender age.  Jerome, this kind, sympathetic and...

I never disconnect the attachment of history with present-day events. Yes, we do try to forget and move on with our new realities, but there is still that transparent thread which somehow survives the...

Going by the Prime Minister’s address to the EU Conference held in Malta this week on the protection of the oceans, it would be reasonable to assume that, as a maritime nation, Malta’s...

In the past three weeks, two keynote speeches of substance were delivered.  On Independence Day, the Archbishop of Malta Charles J. Scicluna stressed the need to promote the common good during...

The low interest rates of past years have put new pressures on many citizens, especially senior ones, for whom interest income on their bank deposits was earmarked to cover a substantial part of their...

If there is an expression that reflects the current state of the PN, this is ‘times of disorder’. In the past, I was extremely critical of the Nationalist Party’s Administration, but...

Guess what, I am back! My sincere apologies to all of those who had spent the week sharpening their pointiest and shiniest spears and pitchforks ready to descend en masse on my article, only for there...