Our country’s extensive history has provided for a large number of buildings and monuments that form a central part of our country’s rich heritage.  Just this week, I had the...

Earning good money is a good thing. All of us deserve living a good life. All business enterprises and indeed many individuals in Malta are profit-driven and pursue profits aggressively. That’s...

In principle, are you against IVF? In 2012, I was part of a group named Professionals Against Embryo Freezing that was involved in the amendment of the law regulating IVF, in the belief that...

I hope that in parallel with the magisterial and police inquiries which were being carried out concerning the horrible accident which occurred in the tourist bus a week and a half ago, an...

Pia Zammit could not have said it better – “Malta is not a normal country”.  It is like living a Netflix series. Local press, international press, all reporting and seeking to...

Young people remain a highly contested group within our society. There has always been the risk of instrumentalisation as young people have often been (mis)understood as simply there to engender...

For every memory of a party during my childhood, there is also a memory of balloons. They were simply a big part of it and I think most people have a similar memory. Balloons were fun and they gave...

The current public debate about fuel stations is a wake-up call. Earlier this week, the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) produced a (sick) joke of a proposal which could reduce the maximum...

Six months after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, questions still remain and they still need to be answered, sociologist Michael Briguglio says. In a vlog for The Malta Independent,...

Data recently issued by Eurostat regarding labour costs in the EU show that in Malta, spending on workers and employees (excluding those in agriculture and public administration) is less than half the...