Before the environmentalist brigade brings out its torches and pitchforks and starts marching towards our offices, read on. The highly contentious db Group project, which has been the source of...

Confusion appears to be reigning at Cabinet level about what exact action, if any, the government is going to take about the repeated and resounding calls for that public inquiry into the...

The MATSEC examination board has launched a consultation process on a reform that it intends to implement as from 2020. One of the most controversial changes that have been proposed is the idea...

This newspaper has been reporting on the very real dangers of glyphosate - and its commercialised formulation, Roundup - since at least June 2013.   That has been six full years of...

Malta and Italy have been arguing over migration issues for quite some time, yet they have come together and issued a statement, saying that it is no longer acceptable to proceed on a case by case...

The hospital privatisation contracts should have been made public in their entirety right from the very beginning, and the government cannot keep hiding behind the redacted versions being...

The Standards Commissioner, in one of his first major orders of business since his appointment, yesterday unleashed a hailstorm of a report scrutinising, in finite detail, the work of Members of...

Over the past days two statements were issued about waste collection in Malta. In the first, the Local Enforcement System Agency said that 49 people had been booked in St Paul’s Bay,...

The Principal Permanent Secretary, the government’s chief public servant, and the Ombudsman appear to have quite divergent views on the bloated public service and the numbers of positions and...

By all the signs Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had his eyes firmly on the prize this week, the particular prize being one of the European Union’s coveted top jobs.  But it seems that...