To look at them, the photos showing a reconstructed Paceville and St George’s Bay are nice to look at – wide roads left for pedestrians, gleaming towers or skyscrapers, palm trees and...

Something rather unusual happened in Malta yesterday: two newspapers, one of which is from this publishing house, came out with their polls and the two polls, independently of each other,...

At first glance, a survey showing that nearly half the population thinks the government is corrupt should be considered as bad news for Castille. But looking at the situation from another angle, given...

Undiscussed up till some days ago, the correspondent bank crisis is now the talk of the town. The contemporaneous visit to New York by the prime minister, the finance minister, the MFSA chairman,...

Predictably the appeal made by Silvio Schembri MP in Parliament on Tuesday night did not even register with the Maltese public.  The hour was late, the papers closed, and most probably many...

The reverberations after the American presidential election will echo and possibly overtake the reverberations after the Brexit referendum. In both cases the people have spoken. In both...

This Bogdanovic tale from Gozo has all the ingredient of a tale from Giovanni Guarreschi. Or from a Peppino skit on Mafia-land. Or more macabre tales from Latin America. On Friday Daniel...

What is being done in diverse areas of the national healthcare is very strange. Strange and mysterious. As in specific areas of the national governance, we seem to have learned first of the...

The following is a word-for-word excerpt from a letter of a friend from a country far from Malta: “What’s going on there, folks? Planes falling from the sky, bombs at the...

Over the last three years the environment has been placed at the forefront of the national discourse perhaps more than it has ever been in the past.   From rampant, unchecked development to...