A child wakes up one morning expecting a normal start to the day. He sits at the breakfast table waiting for the usual spread of toast, eggs, juice, and cereal. Instead, he finds only a slice of bread...

When many years ago, Mid-Med Bank was about to be sold to HSBC, many voices spoke out in praise of what was being done. Personally I was one of those who stood against, and strongly: apart from the...

Society has always felt the need to protect minors from harm. This has taken several forms such as criminalising physical abuse of minors, paedophilia and sexual abuse of all sorts, protection from...

Deputy Leader Alex Agius Saliba was out defending Labour's decision to deploy Neville Gafa as the party's "new weapon" in Gozo. For those who've never heard of him, Gafa is a shady character who...

Prime Minister Robert Abela, it seems, has always recognised Gozo as more than just a geographical place. For any Maltese PM, the island becomes a stage, really, where promises need to travel across...

Not a week passes by that we don't read reports that some country's indigenous population is at risk of disappearing because of collapsing fertility.  Demographic doom has become pervasive: ...

There is renewed energy flowing through the corridors of PN HQ in Pietá. Certainly, a lot of it is due to the election of Alex Borg as new leader of the Nationalist Party. However, I trust this...

The European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers in May 2018 approved Directive 844 of 2018 amending the as well as the . Directive 844 of 2018 seeks to further determine the...

Currently, our family law is supposedly based on the principle of gender equality. However, despite this foundation, both formal and substantive discrimination persist. It is imperative to apply a...

It was, I remember, one evening in the 1970s. I had been to Valletta or Floriana for some meeting and was on my way home in Hamrun. Suddenly I remembered I had left some unfinished business at...