Every time the government announces a new round of COVID-19 restrictive measures, it seems, some will try to find loopholes around these new regulations. Worse still, sometimes it is the authorities...

The amalgamation of Partit Demokratiku and Alternattiva Demokratika into one single organisation by and large has gone unnoticed. The process started months ago but it was only in October that it...

People are fed up with hearing government ministers refer to things that happened pre-2013 as an excuse, or as a way to deviate from current issues.  This practice was one that was happily...

Teleworking was one of the main measures used back in March, April, and May to restrict transmission of Covid-19.   It is a measure which probably would have garnered some scepticism...

The revelations this week that the Malta Financial Services Authority’s CEO and General Counsel had travelled to Las Vegas with Yorgen Fenech in 2018 threatens to undo much of the good work...

One of two magisterial inquiries linked to the Panama Papers investigation is at a “crucial” stage, a public inquiry board was told this week.  The inquiries form part of a police...

We seem to have entered yet another chapter of this endless Coronavirus saga. After several countries, including Malta, eased restrictions at the start of summer at a time when the virus appeared...

The government recently announced draft laws that will ban the petting of wild animals and introduce new regulations for zoos and the keeping of exotic pets.  This is a welcome move, and one...

When it had been announced that Bishop Mario Grech was to relinquish the title of head of the diocese of Gozo to become the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops in September this year –...

Backbench MPs holding official posts in the government has become somewhat of the norm, but this does not mean that it is right. Both political parties have been guilty of this tactic in some...