I am one who was trained as a former diplomat in a doctrine that I still think of as “Gaullist” for it was most proclaimed by France’s General de Gaulle: that states should not...

Non-governmental voluntary environmental organization Birdlife has, in the beginning of this month, applied for the issue of a warrant of prohibitory injunction against the government so that the...

With the onset of the Covid pandemic, travel in Europe collapsed. When the pandemic eased, travel exploded in volume. People apparently wanted to compensate for the months during which they had been...

It is within the absolute discretion of government to determine termination and other benefits and privileges for persons in public office that are not prescribed by law.  First, it is Cabinet...

Much has been said and written about Bill 49 that seeks to increase pre-trial arrest from 48 to a total of 96 hours with possibly another 24 hours added  for offences carrying 12 or more years of...

One might be forgiven to think otherwise, but Politics is not a soap opera. Even if the big-leaguers in the local political pond seem to think that they need bread and circuses to keep afloat. It is a...

Nature does not negotiate as to its impacts. At the appropriate natural time, pun intended, it unleashes its fury on all, without discrimination. This is illustrated on a regular basis with every...

Over the last 40 years Malta was transformed.  The sheer immensity of that change is disconcerting. Malta shifted radically from a situation where politics was paramount to one where only money...

We keep risking missing the trees for the leaves – focusing on what is not important and missing out what is really important. The mainstream media has a tremendous importance in this...

Statements that define a new policy or the updating of one are by their very nature an important milestone in the operations of a government. They describe the aims that government is laying out for...