The newly demerged Malta Environment and Planning Authority failed what can be considered as its first major test last week, and in a most spectacular fashion.   Not only did the supposedly...

Minister Helena Dalli has been the ‘toast of the town’ these past few days when she stuck up for her chief of staff, Ronnie Pellegrini, and tried to interpret what Mr Pellegrini said on...

One of the reasons Labour got elected in March 2013 was Labour’s promise to rule by meritocracy. “You may not agree with us, but you can work with us” resounded in the squares and on...

It often seems that we live in a parallel dimension in which the tried and tested norms of political responsibility that the rest of the Western world are beholden to simply do not apply. ...

The Sunday Times came up with a story how rents have increased over the past years. The increase, as reported on The Sunday Times, are nothing if not spectacular: a 38% rent rise for a one-bedroom...

It is already a miracle that the application for the extension of the St John’s Co-Cathedral museum has been approved. The first application, as many will remember, was to dig out a huge...

After the unanimous disapproval and condemnation of the Planning Authority’s approval of four towers at Mriehel and one super-tower at Tigne, the popular disapproval yesterday had another...

When the director of the country’s Financial Intelligence and Analysis Unit resigns in the middle of what could possibly be the country’s biggest tax evasion and money laundering scandal...

Read any blogs you like, and comment spaces on news websites and the like – the unanimous reaction of the people of Malta at the Planning Authority’s bravado exploit on Thursday when in...

It is unbelievable that the country had to come to know that the director of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Dr Manfred Galdes, had resigned not from official sources such as the Ministry of Finance...