I do not usually watch local tv stations. Each time I’ve made the effort to try I found their programmes boring, repetitive and not engaging at all, so I zap onto other channels in less than...

In total contrast to past years, this year the Malta government should not find it difficult to satisfy in its budget for 2016, obligations arising under the Stability and Growth Pact as contracted...

As revelation piles upon revelation and news report upon news report, the stories of corruption, abuse, pilfering and filching, cronies on the payroll, ‘making the most of it’ and...

I never heard such a load of rubbish as the lot I heard during the impromptu debate on traffic in our Parliament last week. I ended asking myself why the Nationalist Party requested a debate when...

Malta Developers Association president Sandro Chetcuti took a good step forward this week when he said that the government should address the issue of abandoned property. It is a small step, but...

The government’s decision to ban the cultivation of genetically modified organisms, better known as GMOs, has been warmly welcomed by local and overseas environmentalists. They have, for too...

The common mentality in Malta, the one that always presents itself as the standard reply, is to avoid becoming at all involved, not even when the very purpose you are there for is to precisely become...

At the height of public outrage about poor traffic management in Malta, our own Minister of Transport Joe Mizzi has the temerity to go to Luxembourg to speak about “intelligent transport...

This week Parliament re-convened. It felt good to go back to the chamber and debate. The first day, Monday, was somewhat quiet, but by Tuesday things started to warm up. Marthese Portelli and...

In his speech at the opening of the academic year, Rector, Professor Juanito Camilleri, sought to address what is now being termed as the "liberal guilt” related to the disastrous...