Indeed, as the heat begins to set in on our lovely island, our home, we are happy and smiling and quick to begin making plans for sunny days out and cleaning the house from the winter...

The Labour Party will have no problem to overcome the hurdle put up by the Nationalist Party in the form of a no confidence motion that will be debated in Parliament on Monday. Its huge majority in...

Meeting Dr Godfrey Farrugia and Dr Marlene Farrugia at their home in St Julian’s had a peculiar feeling to it.  I’ve interviewed them innumerable times individually but I thought I...

There is a word that clearly expresses the political situation in Malta at the moment and this is qualunquismo. Qualunquismo appeared in Italy, after the Second World War, in reaction to Fascism and...

These past eight weeks have been like a daily soap opera, except that the experience has been depressing not entertaining. One episode more surreal than another, with a cliff hanger at the end of each...

The Prime Minister’s chief of staff and his favoured cabinet minister both issued statements today, once more protesting their innocence in the aftermath of an article published yesterday...

During official discussions at the European Parliament, it is being said that the financial package for Greece hammered out in the middle of last year is making progress. The Greek government...

I've heard it so many times that our society is passive, disinterested and its citizens are disengaged.  This cannot be further from the truth. I think this country should be proud of its civic...

I am writing at a corner table in one of the coffee shops at the Malta International Airport.  People are restless, pacing to and fro the departure and the arrival lounges.  It’s...

Nexia BT is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. It was mentioned in John Bundy’s programme on RTK Radio by the veteran journalists Godfrey Grima and Frank Portelli. They spoke about...