Let's start with a bit of cheer. Yesterday was our beloved country's day of independence. So, happy birthday Malta, you've come a long way from the pauper you were in colonial days. Now you've grown...

Suddenly, we found ourselves discussing HSBC. The bank had not made any announcement in recent times except in general that it was trying to focus its business around the Far East where, as its...

The Labour Party conference last weekend was all about renewal. Minister Ian Borg is now Deputy Leader for Parliamentary Affairs, and consequently, Deputy Prime Minister. MEP Alex Agius Saliba is...

At long last! A few years ago, the Council of Europe provided its technical support to the Maltese authorities to design and implement a new Anti-trafficking Strategy and Action Plan under...

It's very likely that we'll be hearing more and more about the need for this country to get a better grip on the economy and not just let it grow persistently at impressive rates. One and all say...

Roberta Metsola has, once again, successfully garnered the necessary amount of votes to win a second term as President of the European Parliament, this time to serve the full two-and-a-half-year term,...

If foreign workers in Malta from non-EU countries... and for that matter from the EU as well... had the right to vote here, how would their vote go in general elections? And how would it change...

Rough seas severely damaged the breakwater at Marsalforn, a popular seaside resort on in Gozo during a northeast Grigal storm in 2009. This breakwater was crucial for protecting the bay and the...

Earlier this week Mario Draghi, former President of the European Central Bank, and former Italian Prime Minister, submitted a report looking into the challenges faced by industry and the corporate...

In August 1973  Jan-Erik Olsson put on a woman's wig and oversized sunglasses, stormed into Stockholm's Credit Banken and fired his machine gun into the ceiling.  He ordered the cashiers to...