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...

On the face of it, yesterday might have seemed a normal summer Sunday in Malta – festas all around, beaches filled with people, the normal traffic madness to get back home, etc. But a look...

The more one observes the ebb and flow of one government scandal hot on the heels of another and the public’s very short attention span, the more one grows convinced that the next election will...

The Neville Gafa case has added another tassel to an administration that has collected such cases that one almost forgets to list the whole sequence for fear of forgetting many of...

The people of Malta stand in sorrow and solidarity with the people of Italy after the terrible earthquake in Amatrice and surrounding hills. The television coverage of the scenes in the town...

The decision by the top officials of the Nationalist Party, fronted internally by Administrative Council President Dr Karol Aquilina, to stop talented media presenters who are to contest the coming...

Over the past days, the government has been tackling sector after sector of the Air Malta employee base. The template, if we may say so, has been remarkably similar: the sector goes on the...

The chocks are away, the engines fired, and the aircraft has begun its taxiing to the take-off runway. Thus Air Malta. But the destination is unknown not just to the passengers but also, one...