It was not a good week for Prime Minister Robert Abela. It is probable that he will regret some of the statements that he made and decisions that he took. The conviction of the prison director in...

The promised increase in the number of members of the judiciary has now come to fruition. Four new magistrates were appointed earlier this week. This now means that Malta has two more judges (two...

That the Gozo ministry has hunting within its portfolio is a decision taken by the Prime Minister that has never been understood. The hunting sector should be placed within a ministry that, at least,...

A man was recently fined €300 after he was found guilty of hate speech against NGO Repubblika President Robert Aquilina. It is the latest of judgments given by the Maltese courts on cases...

425,000. That’s the number of vehicles licensed on Malta’s roads. This statistic was revealed by Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia in response to a Parliamentary question posed by PN MP...

Almost every government minister has mentioned the word “green” in one of his or her latest speeches. Ministers who have nothing to do with the environment have also found a way to say how...

The topic of connectivity between Malta and Gozo has always been something of a hot one.  In many ways it has been one of the most significant debates about the sister island in the past ten or...

Evarist Bartolo made an interesting observation a few days ago. The former education and foreign minister, in a post on Facebook, raised questions as to whether the Abortion Bill the government...

The Labour government has boasted for a number of years and in a succession of Budgets that no new taxes have been introduced, or that existing taxes have not been increased. This was the case...

Covid-19 has been out of the spotlight for a while, but yesterday it was brought back into the news. A home for the elderly in Naxxar has closed its doors to visitors after detecting several...