As of April 2015, medical cannabis has been legal in Malta if it is prescribed by a specialist such as an oncologist, anaesthetist, neurologist or psychiatrist. But if you go to almost any doctor in...

Electoral campaigns are extraordinary for politicians and journalists, for anyone who works in the news media. They eat up all your time and attention as you leap from topic to topic, from event to...

Within a few hours of the publication of this piece, we should have an idea who our Prime Minister will be for the next five years and which party is to run the country.  It has been a tough and...

This Sunday morning, the news will be dominated by the counting process at Naxxar. During the night, until approximately 10.00 am this morning, all ballot boxes will be opened and a reconciliation of...

In 2003 we, the small group of journalists who had accompanied Malta’s approach to EU accession and had covered the referendum campaign, were so convinced the referendum would be lost that we...

When you come to think of it, the Maltese people are a stubborn, sturdy and funny bunch.  One the one hand our tempers can fly easily and on the other we lie like lions in the sun whilst the...

The Prime Minister’s lack of diplomatic action regarding reports he had received that the Russians were behind the creation of the Egrant story shows he knew that what he was saying was a ridiculous invention, Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil said....

My discovery, a couple of days ago, that the Prime Minister and his scandal-ridden chief of staff have been colluding from the outset with Christian Kalin, group chairman of Henley & Partners,...

This intense electoral campaign has come to an end. Now it is all in your hands. This is when power really goes to the people. This is how we celebrate our democracy. Although surveys are showing...

All governments come and go with their share of merits and defects. This certainly also holds for the Labour administration led by Joseph Muscat. And one needs as in all such instances, to establish...