The Third Sector is comprised of mutuals, cooperatives, associations, charities and voluntary organisations, amongst others, to generate opportunities for what is known as volunteerism. No, I...

The issue to be decided upon on 11 April is whether Malta should accept or repeal the regulations that permit spring hunting. In fact the question asked in the referendum is as follows: “Do...

 Granted, those were pre-internet and pre e-mail days - in 1971 - and physical paper records were needed forevery file and movement from department to department.  But the picture of George...

Last Sunday, the Malta Independent carried an article on the PN’s political campaign for the Local Council elections. According to the article, the PN Parliamentary Group is being kept in the...

By ‘the great debate’ I mean the face-to-face between Joseph Muscat and Simon Busuttil on PBS’s TimesTalk this week. It may be obvious for some readers but I assure you not for...

We are nearly two weeks into the campaign leading up to the local councils elections on 11 April, but the Nationalist Party does not seem to have noticed yet. While the Labour Party is...

Watching the news bulletin and the discussion programme which preceded it on TVM the night before last, I heard along with many thousands that Queen Mary University (or as the prime minister and the...

A couple of weeks before the 2013 general elections, in collaboration with the Office of the Commissioner for Children, I had published a report on the agreeable level of involvement of children in...

Last Thursday, I attended the business breakfast organized by The Malta Business Weekly, where the local business community had the opportunity to listen to what Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil had...

Our culture has not written off the importance of being punctual. I value and give importance to punctuality. I hate turning up late for any meeting or any event of whatever nature. However,...