The Department of Information issued a press release. It communicated urgent important information - Minister Evarist Bartolo had a telephone conversation with US Assistant Secretary of State Karen...

Do we really need surveys?  The idea of a democracy is to allow the people to exercise their sovereignty, since the basic concept is that in a democracy the people are sovereign. It’s true...

Everything is the same as in 2017. And everything is different. On 1 May 2017 Joseph Muscat called Labour supporters out on a show of force to swamp the Egrant allegations which involved his wife...

Robert Abela and the Labour campaign are in crisis.  The pledges and initiatives announced since the election date was made public amount to nothing more than dishing out even more cheques and...

There is an undisputed realization in this country that you cannot separate the quest for a better quality of life from that of a better environment and more green policies. If the electorate...

For quite a while, Malta has been accused of allowing its financial services to be used as a tool by which corporations and rich people get to evade their tax dues. It is still claimed that an...

One of my favourite books which I read and reread often is ‘In Retrospect’ where US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara reflects on the tragedy of Vietnam and lessons learned from it. He...

Is this just a personal impression or is it the case that work accidents are mostly taking their toll on foreign workers? It is true that the cruel death of Ajay Shrestha, the Nepali motorcyclist who...

“This is a historic day for the health of our people,” Dr Ayesha Verrall, New Zealand’s health minister declared. New Zealand introduced measures that will eventually ban all...

Earlier this week, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, when discussing a draft legislative initiative report, emphasised that golden passports are...