We all make choices, hundreds of choices each day. We choose what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, where to go, what to buy and so much more. For most of us, many of these choices are...

With a week filled to the brim with controversies and hullabaloo, I thought I would share some thoughts on an array of issues.   Charity begins where it is needed most! Another...

All that was required of this year's rendition of the annual budget speech  by the incumbent decision-making group , elected or non-elected, was  the articulation of a  set of...

As a young child and teenager, my mother grew up in the house next to what is Andrew's Bar in St. George's Bay.  Her father, an Army officer, rather bravely, located the family there during the...

Any feel-good factor that the government intended to create with an election-type of budget it presented on Monday has already evaporated. It has been an extremely bad week for the...

It was an epic budget, as long as all the world's classics put together, and with a bit of each. Those who survived kept shifting positions and twisting their bodies to pinch themselves into remaining...

Or so he said on a tour of the Playmobil toy factory yesterday. So that's all right then - as long as he is prepared to take the insults and criticism that come his way for failing so badly in his...

One criticism that is being levelled against this budget from within the Labour structures is the lack of social vision. To borrow an expression used by late Prime Minister Dom Mintoff against Alfred...

Monday's budget was largely (and I stress "largely") unimpressive and did not take the country forward. I was tempted to say that it was a farce when I was hosted on One TV on Monday night - and night...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was right when he said, during his post-budget press conference, that in the past such financial exercises used to be stingy in the first two or three years of the...