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...

One of recurring headaches in many advanced societies is how to get the members of the professional classes to do what is expected of them without the need for additional complications. By...

Many of the world’s major banks who have their European headquarters in Britain are preparing to move some of their operations out of Britain in early 2017 due to the uncertainty over the...

It is always a shock when incidents such as the one that took place in St Paul’s Bay last Monday hit the news. Car bombs unfortunately have not been rare occasions in the last years, and...