Minister Chris Bonett was asked a few simple questions.  How much money was budgeted for the airport ring road and how much did it actually cost? How long should the work have taken and how long...

Medical practice usually involves different activities that, if not professionally handled, may give rise to liabilities on the part of the medical practitioner. These liabilities may arise in...

In politics absolute numbers do count but even more the trend lines. Many times we misunderstand this basic tenet and draw the wrong conclusions.  I’m afraid Robert Abela and his...

If I had to point at one single festival which captivates the attention of a whole nation, that would certainly be Mużika Mużika – the celebration of Maltese talent and...

Since the end of the Second World War, collective security on the European continent, and with it, peace, has been a priority. The founding fathers of the European Union themselves, aware of the...

Although expected, the election victory of the Rassemblement National (RN), the party of the extreme right in France, made big waves in the contry as a whole. For the first time under the Fifth...

The language used about waste in running the country’s affairs is a political one but it should not be allwoed to stay only that way. Questions about whether an entity is doing enough to ensure...

In an article which I wrote in The Malta Independent on Sunday, 21 January, 2024, when referring to the encroachment issue of the St George’s Basilica pjazza, I asked: Where does the buck...

At our local supermarket a cute four-year-old was running up and down the aisles while his parents were doing their shopping. Until a man, who I can only presume was his father, suddenly turned...

Fuelled by economic growth, industrialisation, mechanised transport, urbanisation, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and a nutritional transition to processed foods and high-calorie diets over the...