Last week, I inaugurated a water fountain in a village the square in Zurrieq. It is not a grand piece of infrastructure. It will not stop temperatures from rising, prevent the next storm or solve...

These days we are marking the first one hundred days in office of the new Labour Administration, which was once again given a very strong vote of confidence in the election held on 30 May. It was...

A few weeks ago, I used this column to discuss the importance of pride week, and how today, even though we have come a long way as a country, it is still a very relevant celebration which ought to...

In the run-up to the last three general elections, the PN, as an opposition party, started on the back foot, as the Labour government had greater public visibility and used public money to ingratiate...

It's been 100 days since the electorate gave Labour its fourth mandate, and it did so convincingly. Labour's electoral manifesto is ambitious and sets a high bar for this new government. But we are...

Last February, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned us that our labour-intensive economic growth model appears to be approaching its limits due to infrastructure constraints, population...

Towards end-August, Piero Cipellone, member of the European Central Bank's executive board declared that a situation where price increases persist while an economy registers zero to negligible growth,...

Malta's businesses pay the Chamber of Commerce to think, and this week they got trolleys. President William Spiteri Bailey told Times of Malta (Tuesday 18 August) that robot waiters may cut foreign...

An assessment by the World Bank prepared for the European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) concludes that Malta's critical...

One feels a sense of excitement when it is announced that some archaeological discovery has just been made that puts a new light on man's remote past. It is felt when the information relates to life...