The government likes to boast that it listens. Isn’t it about time it evolved into a government that answers — to the basic requirements of democratic accountability? In this column I...

I’ve always been affianced with the sitcom FRIENDS, which ran for 10 consecutive seasons on NBC between 1994 and 2004 created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. To be honest I was more of a...

A five-minute conversation with our youths will invariably gravitate towards discussing the sorry state of the environment on our islands. But while in many parts of the world protecting...

I got to listen recently to quite a number of comments about how serious journalism needs to stay factual in its reporting. A news “story” must report facts that have taken place. Opinions...

In what has been a pretty long career in journalism, I have been able to idly watch how parties in opposition everywhere seem to think that away from the power centre they can have an easier existence...

Malta's electoral system has, over the years, been transformed into a duopoly. Discrimination is inbuilt into electoral legislation in order to effectively ensure that Parliament remains a two-party...

Last November Jillian Mallia from GuideMeMalta.com shared what she called a sneak peek into the new Caravaggio Centre extension of the St John's Co-Cathedral Museum in Valletta, which at that time was...

After agonizing worry and stress for financial services and ordinary citizens hit by the indirect effect that a failure would bring, Malta has finally been given a certificate of compliance by...

The global covid-19 pandemic and the efforts behind the production of the different kinds of vaccines to the malady have shown that science can indeed save the world. The people who actually...

For those who in the past considered membership of the EU as quite equivalent to the discovery of the Holy Grail, Europe could do no wrong. It would deal with all most fairly and transparently, so...