On Monday Parliament approved at first reading stage Bill number 28, a Bill that seeks to clarify the provisions of the Criminal Code relative to therapeutic abortion. Specifically, the objects and...

When, on Tuesday morning, we began hearing about a murder that had just taken place at Corradino where a man shot and killed a woman, I am certain that many of us ran through our list of people we...

Can someone explain how a person is considered perfectly capable to fill the all important post of Chief Justice, but then, a few years down the line, that same person is deemed by the Opposition...

A political custom that has been lost over the years was that of open  debates held internally by the political parties. I remember how in the past – but this goes back almost to before I...

We are in a desperate race to counter global climate warming in time -- so we are told, not least as recently as at the COP conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. But no matter what you read or who you speak...

“The public service’s PR in general has long been dead. It might sound like a sweeping statement, but look at how the Phoneline 153 took over from the departmental...

Everywhere is within reach in the Maltese islands: distances are relatively small. It is, in addition, an established fact, documented in the Transport master plan, that 50 per cent of private car...

“Why do you keep defending Owen Bonnici?”, Robert Abela was asked. “Because I have full trust in him,” came Abela’s curt reply. Abela sees vices as virtues and...

In future times when people will get to analyse our time they will most probably conclude that this has not been a good time for the spread of the arts in our country. There is a lack of the...

Last weekend, the Italian geopolitical review LIMES organised its 9th Geopolitics Festival, at Genoa’s majestic Doge’s Palace – the Doge was the sovereign of the now-defunct Genoese...