The new scholastic year always begins with sharpened pencils, fresh copybooks, and familiar debates about how children learn best. One question now dominates classrooms in Malta and Gozo: should...

Governments that intend to replicate US President Trump's declaration that the issue of climate warming is a tremendous con game will be acting foolishly. Over the years, Trump has acquired a...

Reading through the Fortina inquiry report drawn up by the National Audit Office (NAO) one can pinpoint a specific issue without which this undervalued deal would not have developed, at least, in the...

"In everything we have done, we always had our vision that a Labour government puts the people first," Prime Minister Robert Abela claimed in his Sunday sermon. "Labour governs for the whole...

Malta represents a paradoxical case in fertility trends. We heard concerns from politicians, economists and the Archbishop himself.  Despite a growing GDP, a generous suite of state-supported...

A few weeks ago, Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer, suggested that an interstellar object nearing Earth could be an engineered object.  He was referring to the 31/ATLAS interstellar object...

On Sunday, September 14 September at about noon, I left home for Mġarr. I allowed enough time for the traffic, expecting a slow crawl through the rows of queuing vehicles. Several cars already...

The past 12 years, we can all agree, have been an absolute assault on the environment. Like Herbert Ganado, we too can say that we have seen Malta change, yet, sadly, it hasn't always been for the...

The June 2025 consultation document on the proposal for an automatic enrolment (AE) Occupational Pension Regime sets out the eligibility rules that will guide the system. Employees are considered...

It is not rare that we come across criminal and civil cases where conflicting court judgments are delivered. Not long ago, for example, the Constitutional Court, within a period of less than a year,...