The government has decided to launch a public consultation process on its controversial planning reforms, following immense public pressure. But the way the consultation process is being handled is...

One of the biggest challenges any government faces is weighing commercial interests against the needs of the public. Driving the economy forward is an important factor which any government must...

Malta’s courts handle plenty of cases every day.  Some make headlines, some don’t.  One that did make it to the newsreels this week was a sexual harassment case, where the...

Our colleagues at the Times of Malta on Monday reported that they had been hit by a court temporary injunction from a private company to stop them from publishing an article. The Times said that...

The country is still waiting for a real way forward to tackle the traffic situation, and realistically speaking the issue will not be solved without major investment and a move away from the line of...

If the Malta Developers Association (MDA) was the only organisation to welcome, with open arms, the government's proposed planning reforms, then it is painfully clear whose interests these changes are...

The prodigal professor returned on Tuesday: Edward Scicluna was officially reinstated in his role as Governor of the Central Bank and as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank...

Birkirkara has been without a fully functional council for more than a year, and the community remains in a state of political limbo. Despite her insistence that the council is functioning properly,...

On Tuesday, following a protest that took place in Valletta, Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that Malta will be recognising the State of Palestine in September, at a UN General Assembly that...

Malta is facing a waste management crisis that is spiralling out of control, and the alarm bells are being sounded across the political spectrum. When voices from a Labour MP, a Nationalist mayor, and...