The recent days have seen the two main banks in Malta face serious difficulties while a third bank has announced it will not offer correspondent services to Maltese investors.  HSBC came up...

Recent statistics revealed in Parliament showed that the majority of requests under the Freedom of Information Act decided upon by eight ministries were refused. The ministries were: the Office...

Today marks two years since the brutal assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.  It was on a quiet Monday afternoon that we first received the news that a car had been blown up in Bidnija. Our...

It was another good budget, with no new taxes or tax hikes.  The budget announced yesterday by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna was also very positive when it comes to the environment, which is...

Today is that special day when the Finance Minister walks into Parliament with briefcase in hand and, in a three-hour speech, showers us with goodies as if he were Father Christmas.  To be fair,...

One particular article was this week subject to two appeal rulings within the span of less than a week concerning the media and this publishing house in particular.  A factual article followed by...

The entire world may be currently jumping aboard the climate change emergency bandwagon, but such bandwagons are not always bad or merely cosmetic things.  Sometimes they are worthy vehicles on a...

HSBC yesterday came out with a whole raft of reasons why it is downsizing its branch network, foremost amongst which is today's more digitally-orientated clients and their changing lifestyles and...

Last week we published a presentation of Gemma, the Family Ministry unit which aims to focus people's minds to savings. As was explained in the very good presentation, it has been some time since...

So it turns out that the great unveiling of the first Marsa flyover on the eve of Independence actually cost the taxpayer a grand €40,000, which, in grander scheme of government expenditure, is a...