Now that the election is behind us, it is worth returning to a conversation that got lost somewhere between the rallies and the soundbites: why Malta's growth, for all its statistical success, has...

A survey by Eurobarometer held in August 2025 and involving 500 Maltese respondents showed that 56% of citizens reported being satisfied with their public administration, placing the country among the...

What's happening, Malta to your children? They have everything and yet they're not happy. Or at least many of them.  The country is awash with drugs and has been so for quite some time. It...

Housing is about security, dignity, and the opportunity to build a better life. In a country experiencing unprecedented economic growth, access to decent housing should never be treated as a...

Today, social challenges and problems seem to become real and need to be taken into account only if they can be assessed and measured "mathematically" - meaning that the scale and extent of any social...

Thirteen years is a long time to keep a candle lit. The faithful have kept theirs burning since March 2013. Four elections have come and gone, and four leaders with them. Each night the vigil has...

Over a decade and a half, the percentage of women in employment in Malta has more than doubled to 77.2 percent of the population, exceeding the rate of 71.6 percent in the EU.  As women have...

Maybe it's just a wrong impression but even if so, it is held by many. Over the years, the Maltese population has experienced a decline of technical skills. Or rather, there's been a decrease in the...

Ten weeks after major bowel surgery, I found myself standing on doorsteps mainly across the 4th and 10th districts, meeting residents, attending community activities and asking for their trust once...

The first two articles traced the climb and the vacuum it left. This one, and the last, are the reckoning. The reckoning turns on a single question: who can afford to tell the truth about migration,...