There is a huge contrast in the way the PL government conducts the governance of the country. When it is comes to their lucrative deals, it is no holds barred, willing to break every rule in the book,...

This was a very busy week for the future of research and innovation in the European Union.  The Portuguese Presidency has to be given credit for putting a lot of work into organising a very...

The bill meant to ensure that we shall at least have a minimum number of women MPs in the Maltese Parliament cannot but be given full support. It had long been evident that without a system of quotas...

Over the past days various indicators of employment in Malta shed light on everyday realities faced by workers and employers.  On the one hand, it was confirmed that Malta’s unemployment...

These last weeks we witnessed horrendous news that spread like wildfire.  Once again two (ex) priests, this time from Gozo, are being accused that they had abused an altar boy, and all of this...

The title is not a suggestion, it is rather a description of the current situation with hunting and trapping in Malta right now. The news this week of a record 210 cases of illegal hunting show that...

Prime Minister Robert Abela’s suggestion for schools to remain open during the Carnival “holidays” and for the “lost” holidays to be recouped in the summer or in some...

Public debate should at this time be focussing on the implications of Brexit for Malta and the Maltese, say, or on the country’s ranking in matters of rule of law and corruption, or on the...

A ten-year tourism strategy entitled Recover, Rethink, Revitalise has been published for consultation. It is a strategy which advocates an improvement in quality but does not seek to address the...

Our lives have increasingly become ruled by numbers, especially in this second year of the Covid pandemic. As we look back at how, just a year ago, we first started to hear about this obscure...