"The people who criticise the public transport for being unreliable generally are those who haven't used public transport for many years," Minister Chris Bonett commented cynically. Well, I use the...

Gozo once greeted visitors with terraced hillsides, dry-stone farmhouses, and sleepy fishing resorts enriched with the typical smell of salt and seaweed. Older generations recall evenings in...

The other day, I had a healthy discussion with a friend of mine regarding the government's proposed changes to planning regulations.  Both of us started from the premise that development is key...

Cases of usury have not been hitting the headlines these last years, and one may be led to think that it's hardly a social scourge anymore. The number of prosecuted and convicted individuals...

This is the best time for it but let's see who will accept the challenge. Unless something happened between my writing and its appearance in public, this is the best time for the country as a...

15th August 1942 - as Malta was on the verge of surrendering to the enemy, the people were famished and the country in ruins, and the embattled Ohio, having endured enemy fire, sailed into the Grand...

Malta has long been losing out on its genuine citizenship and public domain as a result of the large-scale public land transfers in favour of local and foreign 'land grabbers' and as a result of our...

Since 2003, there have been two ways by which laws are passed in Malta: one goes through the Malta Parliament; the other is via the EU institutions in Brussels - European Commission, the Council and...

There have been few other times when the European Union was shown to be an emperor with so few clothes on as now. In the face of aggressive and arbitrary US demands on trade relations it has buckled,...

Last week ('Government's Legalised Rape of Malta's Environment', The Malta Independent on Sunday, 3/8/2025), I stated that Bills number 143 and 144 of July 2025 were in breach of the rule of law: 'The...