One of the main pillars of the public administration in Malta has been – and continues to be – administrative secrecy. The public administration, in order not to be held accountable, goes...

Labour was stunned. Barely one year after Abela’s landslide victory the polls showed that PN was ahead.  A 39,474 vote lead had been squandered. Labour found itself at a 5,000 vote...

Last Tuesday, the Auditor General published a report entitled A Review of the employment agreement of the Consultant to the Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Tourism Studies. It addresses my...

This time last year we spent some days relaxing in Gozo, in an apartment overlooking Mgarr Harbour. They were sunny yet stormy days.  I spent hours, starting when it was still dark, watching the...

From a certain point of view, controversies about the environment are controversies regarding what we will leave behind us. Many changes are carried out in our times for our times, but in reality most...

We hear numerous calls for a change in the economic “model” that has been implemented up to now, as well as presumably calls for a new one that needs to be drafted. The “model”...

Freedom of information legislation permits the mass media to access government held information. By 'government held information', I do not mean information held only by Cabinet Ministers but also...

On 2nd March 2001 the Taliban destroyed the priceless Buddhas of Bamiyan, 1,500 year-old monumental statues carved out of a cliff in a valley in central Afghanistan. The world watched in horror as the...

We have just experienced the driest October in living memory. This is not a new experience. In the past few years, the climate has changed substantially. We are experiencing longer periods of drought...

The last general election in Malta took place on 26 March 2022 and thus the next one will take place, plus or minus, by 2027. We are thus some four years away, or maybe less, considering that the...