The impasse between MCAST's administration and MUT is worrying many students and parents. Its timing is certainly not the right one for the students. This is after all their exam time. This...

The debate about how to run checks and balances in modern democracies is a crucial one. Such mechanisms are essential to ensure that there is no take over by the tyranny of a majority or by the...

An agreement was reached in the past days between Minister Michael Falzon and BOV to help individuals, who normally cannot borrow money from banks to become owners of their own home. A similar...

There are not enough eyes in the world, to roll enough times, to do justice to the actions of the Nationalist Party dinosaur Edwin Vassallo this week. In a move far surpassing any of his previous...

The entire government, both the Konrad Mizzi faction and the Chris Fearne faction, seems in an almighty eagerness to get us to stop looking backwards and to look forward, to sweep all this Vitals...

Karmenu Vella, EU Commissioner for the Environment, is enthusiastic about the possibility of a plastics tax being introduced throughout the EU. In his view, this tax – if properly designed...

The Labour Government of Joseph Muscat has now been in office for nearly 5 years and still we continue hearing the calls for resignations from not just the Opposition parties but also from the...

Today I can proudly say that Culture, for the first time in our political history, has become a national priority. I state this on the morrow of the outstanding opening of Valletta 2018, when our...

Valletta 2018 is only the point of departure. Our year as European capital of culture should be a game changer that leaves a lasting legacy.  Over the coming years, we want to reap the benefits...

It is good strategy in tourism to encourage initiatives that create new projects which reinforce the basis from which the sector...