The 2025 budget proposals for Gozo are already available from the Gozo Business Chamber (GBC) and The Gozo Tourism Association (GTA). The Gozo Regional Development Authority (GRDA) has still not...

It has not been a good summer for the Labour party. It is evident that the results of the European Parliament elections last June, have sent the party in Government into a tailspin which as things...

Inspirational teenage athlete Jake Vella died last week, aged 15. Malta mourned his death. A life cut short by an extremely rare condition. But despite his short life marked with tragedy, Jake's...

In the months and years before Malta was declared an independent country in September 1964, huge controversies arose over how it could keep afloat if separated completely from the UK. From what could...

Is it not somewhat curious how here in Malta, we do not seem to be at all troubled by the situation in Libya which no matter what could be said about it, still remains very unstable? In report after...

Following the news, nowadays, is, at times, comparable to what we experienced during the corruption-infested mid-1980s, which a number of us lived through. Most probably it is much worse than...

"I'll know myself when my time is up". So spoke Robert Abela. Whether his bold statement is the product of sheer naivety, pure arrogance or a profound ignorance of history is difficult to...

One of the most important and widely celebrated religious festivals in Gozo is the feast of Santa Marija, also known as the feast of the Assumption of Mary. Gozo celebrates the Santa Marija feast...

This week, in my capacity as chair of the Public Accounts Committee, together with my colleagues in the Nationalist Party Parliamentary group, MPs Graham Bencini and Claudette Buttigieg, we placed an...

Our police corps is failing at the very basics. Not long ago, we read how a foreigner complained of poor treatment by the police when they dismissed him when he tried to file a report. That was...