What is wrong with this country? What is it that makes us keep trying our best to hit the bottom rung of everything? Just when we reach the bottom someone excavates a bit more and we sink...

Numbers do not lie. They may be twisted this way and that, interpreted up or down but at the end they remain stolidly there, stone-faced, inflexible and inelastic. Enough words have been spent by...

In our construction industry we are faced with destruction of property and of life.  Once it happens, a building collapses and a life is taken, it is over, final and there is nothing to say that...

Speaking in Parliament last week, and also in other media, I explained that the Ministry for Education and Employment is fully committed to continue with the necessary preparations in the best...

In a tiny country, so wrote a friend from abroad (as if by way of consolation for whatever), hypocrisy necessarily becomes an indispensable tool to enable community life. After all, we all follow...

In political commentary one often hears about party finance, party and individual links with businessfolk, and the influence of lobbies over politics. Malta is no exception. A cursory look at...

While campaigning for the European elections with the PN, I used to cross paths quite regularly with labour candidates, be it at one of the tv or radio interviews or at some popular feast where any...

The latest two athletic challenges staged in Malta – the non-stop swim from Sicily and the run along the perimeter of the islands – celebrated chosen philantropic goals and the joy of...

Robert Abela inherited a government tainted by accusations of corruption that are, little by little, being in large measure confirmed. The Vitals scandal is one clear example; Neville...

The aim of public policy is to create the right environment so that the lives of citizens can carry on with the least hassles possible. That is why we try and construct the roads that provide the...