I write this article today because as a concerned Catholic I feel perturbed by the report in the local newspapers whereby the Gozo Bishop has not taken any disciplinary steps against a Gozitan priest...

Businessman Yorgen Fenech has been acquitted of complicity in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The verdict is an obscene miscarriage of justice, extraordinarily difficult to reconcile...

On 18 July, Malta recorded its hottest July day ever: 43.3°C. Three days later, demand on the electricity system reached 741MW, against a previous record of 663MW set only three years earlier....

One of the most common phrases heard in organisations is, "My door is always open." It is intended to communicate accessibility, inclusion and a willingness to listen. Yet an open door means little if...

Uncertainty has come to dominate the global economy as geo-economic shifts and geopolitical tensions upend long-held economic assumptions. The World Economic Forum, for instance, gauges the perceived...

Xagħra, Gozo, has just given Malta one of its rarest prehistoric finds. On Monday 24 August, the Planning Authority (PA) issued an Emergency Conservation Order for a site at Triq il-Ġdida in...

The occurrence of total blackouts during the hot summer days and nights of 2026, despite the economic growth confirmed by both local and international economic institutions, inevitably raises...

The relations between society and the sea were the focus of the Maritime Sociology Research Stream at the recent European Sociological Association conference in Warsaw, in which I participated. Four...

Respecting a verdict does not mean closing our eyes to the questions that remain. Almost nine years after Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated by a car bomb, Malta still does not know who...

The latest PISA results should force Malta to have an honest conversation about the state of our education system. Not a political shouting match. Not another exercise in presenting every statistic in...