Budget 2025 received positive feedback for it focused on bread-and-butter issues and addressed peoples' concerns. The tax cuts were historical and unprecedented, and they will make a significant...

Not so long ago, after having narrowly avoided the Maltese islands, a huge tempest hit the Libyan coast and inflicted enormous damage there, while hundreds of people lost their lives. Powerful...

It's not only governments which are affected by the problem; it exists in the private sector as well. Public relations have gained such a salience in certain corporations that some put them at the...

Everybody knows Jason Azzopardi's car number, according to Robert Abela. Most people don't even know their own car number, let alone Jason Azzopardi's. Autocrats have always told lies, so Abela's...

Adrian Delia's leadership of the Nationalist Party (PN) sparked intense debate, marked by internal conflicts and external legal battles. Despite being democratically elected by party members, Delia's...

The budget communicated by Minister of Finance Clyde Caruana on Monday discounts the future. It is a budget which once more shifts present day burdens onto future generations. The budget deficit for...

So the protest by NGOs about the rape of Villa Rosa was held yesterday week. The list of organisations which participated in the protest was probably longer than the people who actually...

If the situation in this country was not so terrible - or rather tragic - life in Malta would be like living in a real Panto. Everything is farcical. Actually, worse than farcical. Even the...

Last year, the Ministry for Active Ageing launched a National Strategic Policy for Active Ageing for the years 2023-2030. The urgent need for that policy was felt in so far as population ageing...

The weekend before budget day, as is customary, the finance minister gave us, his cabinet member colleagues, a presentation of the Budget 2025 measures. My immediate reaction was that this was a...