Last month, the unexpected nine-month mission for NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore finally came to an end. After an unplanned extension, their initial eight-day mission turned into a...

It's Easter Sunday, expecting a soft breeze and warm sunlight to spread across the Gozitan hills. Nature shakes off the last of winter's dust, and the island blooms into colour, fragrance, and quiet...

The agreement signed earlier this week between INDIS Malta and the Lands Authority as a result of which agricultural land earmarked for the extension of the Bulebel Industrial Estate was "saved from...

Strange as it may seem, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism now appears to be obsessed with decline. Malta's list of complaints seems endless. Real wages are falling. White-collar...

Opinions differ but I firmly believe that demonstrations and any form of public protests, especially loud ones in piazzas and streets, do work. Whether a few or multitudes attend, the authorities...

Like many I admit I was shocked last Sunday with the results of the monthly survey on MaltaToday. It showed PN losing more ground and PL regaining the majority. I was then shocked even more when...

Election surveys are a snapshot of the current situation in which they are taken.  Nothing more, nothing less.   I describe them as a "weather report" and they should be kept in that...

The document Vision 2050 for Malta confimrs that tourism will and should remain a pillar of the Maltese economy. It has developed on a scale which not so long ago, was unimaginable, and the aim now is...

It's all very well and good to have a vision about the future of the country and also worthwhile to position it in contrast and by comparison with how other countries are moving to formulate and reach...

In March 1981, the 31-year-old Marianne Bachmeier shot Klaus Grabowski six times in the back during a court hearing, killing him instantly. There was no doubt that Bachmeier had murdered...