When discussing the current environmental onslaught developing around us, we rightly focus on incompetent regulators and greedy developers. It is about time that we also address the role of the banks:...

Some 60 years ago my mother used to occasionally send me to visit her sister at Wied il-Ghajn (as we called it then – the gentrified Marsascala still had to become popular). The village was...

Yorgen Fenech continues to dominate the news on a daily basis.  On Thursday he was arraigned on charges related to the purchase of firearms and explosives on the dark web allegedly made in 2018....

Regulatory agencies have come to assume an important role in the running of free market economies as they developed durng the last thirty years. Such agencies were expected to operate independently of...

Hundreds of citizens are at any one point waiting for justice at our law courts. Small businesses seeking due payment, professionals seeking redress over unjust dismissal or small offenders waiting...

Perhaps everybody does it, we Maltese not least. We look for and prefer easy ways out by which to meet arising challenges and get over them. Where the way out we choose happens to be too hard for...

The publication by Transport Malta, last week, of a pre-qualification questionnaire relative to the "award of a concession contract for the design, build, finance, operate, maintain and transfer of a...

I am sure it happens to most bookworms around the world. My moment in time this last week was the discovery, on my sagging shelves at home, of a book by one of the most exciting poets of the Liverpool...

If we take time to watch from an objective distance, the main event of the past week was the fall of Kabul, the repeated fall of the city and of the country. The free world had another 9/11...

Events in Afghanistan in this past week have revealed a shift in global organization and thinking.  Mostly there was a sense of shock at the way the Taliban had swept into Kabul in such a short...