Prime-minister Robert Abela went on another photo-op at a Birkirkara day centre for the elderly.  “We are creating a just Malta for pensioners,” he bragged. “This is a just...

During the conference launching the KPMG annual review of the property market held last week, Michael Stivala, Malta Development Association Chairman, in a tear-jerking intervention, told us that the...

I have been watching, mesmerized, scenes broadcast live from Gaza. First, some days ago, from outside a hospital in Gaza City, and today scenes from a wide road as people streamed by, on donkey carts...

Now it’s been weeks since day in day out, we’ve been told about bombing attacks and killings in Israel and Palestine. We’ve gotten used to them, even hardly noticing what’s...

Let us imagine that a new development for touristic purposes is being planned in a coastal locality. Let us imagine that the respective decision makers opt for an evidence-based approach before...

The guarantee government has given to preserve Ħondoq ir-Rummien in its natural state amounts to a big victory for the Qala local council, especially its mayor Paul Buttigieg. Truly the valley...

Article 91A of the Constitution of Malta sets out the duties of the State Advocate. It reads as follows: ‘The State Advocate shall be the advisor to Government in matters of law and legal...

Robert Abela tried to buy the silence of Jean Paul Sofia’s mum. She was fighting for justice for her interred son. He was fighting for his own survival. Isabelle Bonnici, Sofia’s mother...

The incomes policy is central to the boring 134-page budget speech read by Minister of Finance Clyde Caruana on Monday. There are three specific elements to this. The first is the cost-of-living...

Those who last Monday watched the Budget sitting from Parliament would have been impressed by the whole stage-managed scene. All the stops were pulled out to give viewers a glimpse of the State....