Year after year, there is so much hype surrounding Malta’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, which brings together European nations – and others, too – under one roof in...

A strong first quarter for tourism was registered this year, with the number of inbound tourists even surpassing the amount in 2019. In 2019, the country saw 425,892 inbound tourists in the first...

Thirty years ago, when local councils came to be, the Labour Party, then in Opposition, had not been represented in the first elections that took place. Well, not officially, anyway. The PL had...

Can Malta’s political system be improved? The dominance of just two political parties in Malta is something that we have gotten used to, and barely question anymore. We’ve heard the...

During his Workers’ Day address, Prime Minister Robert Abela gave us a pretty sizeable hint about a piece of planning reform which the government is cooking up. Abela questioned whether it...

Last Monday, in an activity organised by the Labour Party on the occasion of Worker’s Day, Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that the government, as from tomorrow, will be delivering cheques...

Parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of the second reading of a Bill which will introduce harsher traffic fines and penalties for a variety of road-related offences. Among the changes, which...

World Press Freedom Day was marked this week, and the importance of having a strong independent media sector has never been more evident than it is today. The role of a journalist is to seek the...

A symbolic but significant gesture took place on Workers’ Day, and it deserves much more attention than it has been given. Last Monday, Isabelle Bonnici laid a wreath at the foot of the...

This is what the government must have had in mind when Prime Minister Robert Abela made the announcement last Monday. Using a Labour Party activity to launch a government measure – it was...