Apart from the freak weather we had – the kind of which I enjoy – the Santa Marija week this year will be remembered for the unprecedented decision taken by the government to sustain a...

The fact that the Government should not have guaranteed the ElectroGas loan is to be found in the company’s statement issued after the Opposition had lambasted the fact that Bank of Valletta is...

The controversy about the guarantees that government extended over the bank loans to cover the building of the new power station has become like the proverbial mountain out of a molehill. But not...

I had ravaging  teenage acne. Just when I had started to pluck enough courage to crawl out of my rural shell, and replace the  book dust  on my clothes with human...

The child abuse/sex crimes investigations in Britain right now are in themselves turning into a travesty of justice, with dead politicians like the Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath subjected...

I was completely unaware of the case until I was reading (still am) for reviewing purposes an account of the speeches made at what was called The President’s Forum which took place on 21 April...

The social media is regularly agog with complaints and protestations over the fact that Malta is suddenly replete with foreigner workers who cannot speak the national language. Many of them working in...

Protection of the environment is not achieved in proportion to the number of authorities established to deal with the environment, resources and land use planning. In fact, subject to sound...

At present we are enduring more than our fair share of troubles on the home front.   Families face indiscriminate power cuts, exorbitant costs for students and women who work to get around...

I cannot understand why positive news from the Catholic Church does not get much coverage in the local media. Perhaps, the contractors’ lobby is too strong on our Island. However, the TOM did...