It looks like the new medical school project is going to turn out to be another gas-fired power station – and it doesn’t help that the minister in charge is the same one. The school...

I can summarise and simplify what I intend to write about today by saying that there is one overarching reason why some countries will not follow Greece down the road to perdition: Greece is governed...

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...