It was the morning after the 2008 general election, an election fought on a knife-edge. On TVM, the experts were ad-libbing, since the boxes had not yet been opened. One of the experts, Professor...

Officers of the Environment and Resources Authority, interviewed by the local media, emphasised what we have known for ages: the main contributor to air pollution in Malta is transport. St Anne Street...

The role of a President in a modern democracy is usually expected to provide a level-headedness at times of conflict or dispute, or of extraordinary complexity.  Where passionate and subjective...

Human life has to always be cherished, whether it is in the form of eight cells in the womb, or in the form of a person in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, said Auxiliary Bishop Elect Joseph Galea...

When measuring the successes achieved by our country in the last five years, we definitely cannot forget the infinite number of times our most trusted institutions have had to face unjustified and...

The dressing down that the FIAU, the Maltese agency responsible for investigating abuses in the island’s financial sector, got from the European Banking Authority is serious, without any doubt....

The country was shocked by the news that entrepreneur Hugo Chetcuti was stabbed to death in Paceville.  He succumbed to his wounds just six days after the attack.  The man allegedly...

The bones of Nerik Mizzi, the skilful pre-WWII Nationalist Party leader and, later, briefly Prime Minister of Malta, must be having a jolly good time tumbling about with joy in his grave while the...

Being an environmentalist isn’t always an easy path to walk. Overall most of our views are shared by a majority of the world population, so why are we struggling every day to make the changes...

Many moons ago, when the then government was devoting a substantial part of its diplomatic initiatives to push for a greater unity among Mediterranean countries, I wrote  an article in the...