The government presents the budget at this time of the year or in November and the Unions and Chambers respond with their opinion.  Good or poor, almost or nothing.  Once again, it seems,...

Last year the Government registered a surplus of €100 million, following more than 35 years of successive deficits. Labour turned a deficit of more than €360 million in 2012 to a surplus in...

Works on the new Kirkop health centre started yesterday, and it will be receiving its first patients next summer, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne said on...

A budget without new taxes is rare, if not unique. A budget with no increases to existing taxes, not even on cigarettes, is probably unprecedented. Usually, the first budget after an...

If I had to choose two words to describe this year’s budget I would use “missed opportunity”. In a budget speech ironically called Investing for the Future, Minister Edward Scicluna...

The best analysis that could be attempted of the 2018 budget should focus on how the fiscal space the government presently enjoys is going to be used to guide future developments. It’s been...

Any otherwise sensible and politically attuned person who campaigned for Adrian Delia to become leader of the Nationalist Party should by now be undergoing a dawning realisation of something akin to...

This has been another eventful week. Jerome Frendo:  Losing one of yours is always very difficult to fathom and more so at such a tender age.  Jerome, this kind, sympathetic and...

I never disconnect the attachment of history with present-day events. Yes, we do try to forget and move on with our new realities, but there is still that transparent thread which somehow survives the...

Going by the Prime Minister’s address to the EU Conference held in Malta this week on the protection of the oceans, it would be reasonable to assume that, as a maritime nation, Malta’s...