The Gozo airstrip saga hits the headlines againAn extensive survey on fares and routes of 17/19-seater and smaller planes EU flights was published by yours truly in The Malta Independent on Sunday on 20 July 2008 (see online archive)....

I have been following with great interest and some consternation the debate on the morality surrounding the issue of in vitro fertilization, or IVF in short. Whenever I read articles by corre...

Residents of Santa Marija Estate in Mellieha are puzzled! ...

I have just been sent some photographs taken last week at Hondoq ir-Rummien. It would appear that this is someone’s bright idea on how to deal with the situation...

The past weeks have not been easy on the government, what with Maroni’s invective, the deficit figures and possible repercussions from the EU, a hardened and embittered Opposition opposing at ...

Ten years ago I published a book about the then raging debate on Malta’s membership to the EU, which eventually materialized five years later. Let me quote a synopsis of the conclusions from that publication:...

It is now official: every animal involved or committed to giving you an English breakfast is (or has been) implicated at one time or another in the last decade with a pandemic-threatening disease. ...

It was indeed exhilarating to see our Prime Minister take the floor to address the 3000 top political leaders and dignitaries in Warsaw last Wednesday, all hailing from the Christian democrat tradition. ...

On Tuesday, the government announced its intention to submit planning applications for three wind farms, subject to scientific studies on the proposed sites. The government’s apologists shall all raise their hands, clap ...

My candidature for the European ParliamentI have been involved in politics ever since I was a young man. I was politically active at the Drydocks, where I used to work. ...