We are now past the midyear and can therefore try to draw up an appraisal of what the Capital City of Culture has brought with it. Not all the items we will be mentioning are to be ascribed to...

Earlier this week our sister daily newspaper asked the question: “Will the real finance minister please stand up?” And we got our answer on Tuesday when the Government Gazette reassigned...

Judges and magistrates should be bound by a code of ethics, even after they reach their retirement age, especially if, in their retirement days they are entrusted with government board posts and ‘independent inquiries....

Sometimes it’s blamed on a lightning strike, on other occasions it’s because a contractor hit an underground cable. There were also times when problems with the interconnector with Sicily...

The parliamentary secretary for animal rights yesterday announced a long-overdue need for a revision of the laws governing karozzini. This comes after the second horse since Saturday keeled over in...

As we report on page 7, the CEO of HSBC Bank Malta, Andrew Beane said that it is essential to safeguard the jurisdiction's good name especially in a context of an increased complex international...

Last Saturday morning the leading article of this newspaper took Finance Minister Edward Scicluna to task for having failed to issue any sort of statement in the wake of last week’s Standard and...

Far from being killed off, the Egrant affair has become a many-headed Hydra, in full respect of the mythology in which once a head is cut off, others replace it. Some have raised questions as to...

One of our daily struggles as journalists is getting information from ministries and other state departments. During the summer months, when government employees work half days, that struggle...

It is unfathomable how in this day and age some parents have not had their children vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella, one of the fundamental vaccinations all children are meant to be...