The announcement last week that Malta's public finances have risen from a perennial deficit situation to a small (€8 million) surplus must have pleased all Maltese of goodwill. There had...

Last week, coinciding with the last day of the EPP congress in Malta, the government published statistics that showed that for the first time since 1981, Malta had registered a small - €9 million...

A report tabled in Parliament by Health Minister Chris Fearne, following parliamentary questions by PN MP Ċensu Galea, rings sufficient alarm bells on the increase in the number of people...

Gzira gets its name from the “island” that lies in its midst – what we have for centuries called Manoel Island. (Before that it was called the Bishop’s island). The Gzira...

All these antics between two leading government functionaries who are still embroiled in the Panama Papers scandal and the European parliamentary committee tasked with investigating the implications...

It was perhaps merely a footnote to parliamentary proceedings when the House convened earlier this week to debate the Media and Defamation Bill, but there was one MP who provided something of a voice...

The ugly impasse at the Broadcasting Authority was solved earlier this week, at least partially, when the embattled chairperson, Tanya Borg Cardona, handed in her resignation. She had been resisting...

On 2 March, we wrote that the financial services in the City are preparing their post-Brexit strategies. Some speak of opening subsidiaries or offices in other parts of the EU so as not to lose...

Many were the doom and gloom scenarios that had been painted by anti-divorce campaigners back in those contentious days of 2011 when the divorce referendum campaign was in full swing.  Society...

Things do change even in deepest Malta. The Catholic religion may seem age-old, or age-less, but there are subterranean currents in it that should be noted.  Away from the glare of the media and...