This week has been one of endless mirth and entertainment. Ever since Bernard Grech announced the appointment of Chris Peregin to drive the Nationalist Party’s election campaign all sorts of...

Travelling for young people was an essential in the formation of their educational life and for the pleasure it brought.  One of the overlooked consequences of the COVID19 pandemic has been the...

This is what Malta will do in order to make sure that we, as a country sustain our resilience and our competitiveness:  * Strengthen and prioritise a compliance and enforcement culture. Nurture a...

General elections loom, and not just in Malta. They will have to be held in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic. What impact could this have? Recent state elections in Germany produced a result...

At this time of the year, students from different age groups and social backgrounds would be pondering about what subjects to choose at the University of Malta. There is a wealth of choice and...

Not a single week goes by without news hitting the headlines showing Labour's excesses, bad governance, corruption, sleaze and impunity.  Investigations by the Commissioner for Standards in...

Last week, the European Commission published important proposals for a major upgrade of the laws and regulations intended to protect the environment from the global effects of climate warming which...

Driving along the roads of this sunscorched island, where the heat shrivels brain tissue mostly, I often think of the young lawyer Thomas Macaulay who appeared before the Commons in 1833 to argue what...

Achieving carbon neutrality is long overdue. It has long been obvious that an economy that is dependent on fossil fuel is not sustainable The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention for...

What is an amateur? Strictly speaking, it is a person who does something purely out of love and not for financial gain You can achieve high standards and still be, in the proper sense, an...