Understandably, we all tend to look at the annual budget speech from our personal perspective: whether we will be better-off or worse-off after it, what we will pay in taxes, direct or indirect, what...

Last week I read with interest Roselyn Borg's commentary on Facebook. Besides being a friend, Roselyn is also one of the brave new candidates for the Nationalist Party. Her commentary started off...

Where do you draw the line between the arguments of core and periphery eurozone countries about how best to restore the economy to normal growth and avoid the dangers of a lost decade and a perilous...

Echoes of the ton-ta’ zejt budgets of the 80’s are around us.  The trumpets are sounding and the carpet is being rolled out for the big announcements as people tune in to hear about...

Was anyone surprised, the other day, when Joseph Muscat said that Dom Mintoff should be appreciated for his objectives and not for how he went about things? That's another way of saying that the ends...

Events of the past few weeks - or should we say those of the past 20 months? - have been a salutary lesson as to why politicians and other holders of high office should stick to better and stricter...

I am lucky because I do not have to drive to go to the office. I consider this as a great advantage over my colleagues. I see them arrive at work flustered, angry and irritated after having to endure...

Surprise! Surprise! Some may find the comments of Mr Mario Cutajar, Principal Permanent Secretary, on The Malta Independent last Sunday inappropriate.   Others may think his comments were in...

The President of the Republic, Marie Louise Colerio Preca in expressing solidarity with migrants, has become a source of political controversy. Fringe elements of our two main political parties have...

Last Saturday during my programme on Radju Malta, Ghandi xi Nghid I discussed the boundless debate on the role of the media in society (http://andrewazzopardi.org/ghandi-x-nghid-radio-show/), the so...