Last weekend we were about to see a former president of the United States being assassinated. That we didn’t was due to mere chance – Donald Trump happened to look this way rather...

Public libraries have seen a significant resurgence in usage and this in itself is positive news.  It certainly reflects our nation's growing appreciation for literature and the...

The more one hears about the need to introduce substantial changes in the economic strategy of this county, the more one expects to hear about concrete proposals regarding how this can be done....

Malta’s current flirtation with NATO is anything but an enjoyable show. Following the renewal of membership in the Partnership for Peace programme (a huge mistake), there was the association of...

Land use planning is in the news continuously nowadays. Various residential communities are up in arms as they are now realizing that, 18 years ago, they were defrauded when Parliament approved a...

In Gozo, it’s a common occurrence that when accidents happen, no one seems to be responsible for their consequences and compensations. Consider St Francis square. The present government and...

Prime Minister Robert Abela chose to lie about me on ONE radio. He claimed the PN used me to report him to the Standards Commissioner.  He accused me of hypocrisy. He told his party faithful that...

During the last few months, on average, we have had around 400 children in state care, half of whom are in foster care while the other half live in residential homes. And as the head of the Foundation...

We in Malta have many close ties with our former masters, the Brits. But one thing which seems to connect us most dramatically is sewage. In Britain sewage is spewed into rivers by water treatment...

I do not foretell the future but in my mind I doubt very much that if at the end Prime Minister Robert Abela proposes the name of Chris Fearne to be Malta’s next European Commissioner, that will...