It was a poignant piece of street theatre on Tuesday when activists took to the streets of Valletta in a mock trial of a number of European leaders, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat included, over recent...

The world joined the United States yesterday to mark a grim milestone in commemorating the 17th year since the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on New York, Washington D.C., and in that field in...

This is how the system works, as told by insiders and as witnessed over the years. The party in government gets an almost absolute right and freedom to do what it feels like doing. And it...

Europe is in dire need of a centralised anti-money laundering body perhaps now more than ever before. Recent events have shown us that such an institution is required to save ourselves from ourselves,...

Homelessness in Malta is an issue which needs to be tackled, and fast. Having people, Maltese or foreign, sleep on a park bench, or under a gazebo in the street is not acceptable.  With the...

It was most gentlemanly and decent of Minister Chris Cardona to have effectively dropped his lawsuit against Daphne Caruana Galizia, which had been assumed by her heirs, last week when he missed the...

Wied Ghomor is far from safe, it seems, with planning applications that threaten its destruction streaming in.  The latest in a long list of applications is a proposal for three office blocks,...

Last April, the Financial Times carried a letter by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna responding to a significant amount of coverage about Malta and its financial services sector. The minister...

Summer is drawing to a close, Parliament is set to resume at the start of October and we will soon find ourselves right in the middle of an election campaign. It’s not that the hotter...

Malta, this end of summer, is like a tinderbox, with only a small spark needed to start a conflagration. Those who follow the social media know what we are talking about but those who live in...