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...

That an approximate 110,000 people, out of a total population of about 440,000, chose to descend upon the Capital City Valletta on the day it was assuming the title of European Capital of Culture 2018...

My ardour for social justice must have been implanted in me during the time I was a student at St Aloysius College. Somehow this ambition to do what is good, to speak one’s mind and heart were...

The Romans were experts at it. So much so that they coined a phrase, used in the headline, that literally means “bread and circuses”. Give the people food and entertainment, they used to...

It is not my intention to encourage trade unions to resort to industrial action of whatever nature to iron out differences which inevitably arise from time to time at the place of work.   On...