That Malta’s Law Commissioner, Dr Franco Debono, is a controversial figure is by now taken for granted by everyone. His recent stint as a Member of Parliament under Lawrence Gonzi’s...

Just like happens with Eurovision, we’re through to the final night. Leo Brincat yesterday succeeded where Toni Abela failed. Months ago, the European Parliament committee had blocked the...

The government will today have its fingers well and truly crossed as its second nominee to the European Court of Auditors, Leo Brincat, faces the traditional grilling before the European...

On Friday night, a row of mostly Italian cars were parked at Salina watched over by the police, which Police HQ later described as an ‘ordinary roadblock’. It looked anything but...

On Thursday morning, commuters on their way to work from the South had to deviate around most of the centre of Malta, arriving more than an hour late for work. Apparently, the massive traffic jam...

With a public discussion being held by the Nationalist Party’s women section this evening at St Paul’s Bay, political activity is back after the summer recess. Even if Parliament will...

On 2 August, GRTU published a statement, unusually in Maltese only. It was disregarded by the English-language papers and to date has not been carried, as far as is known. That was the day when...

The government’s pledge to take concerted action against the pollution emanating from the plethora of fish farms surrounding the Maltese Islands has not come a day too soon. It is, after...

France, or rather some localities mainly in the South, has declared war on burkinis on the beach. Burkini’s are all-enveloping wear which Muslims, mainly, wear to the beach. Not to be mixed...

The government has now touched the bottom of its box of tricks. And nothing has worked. When the Panama Papers case emerged, the government played dead for some weeks. But then the force of the...