As political rhetoric reached ever higher crescendos yesterday, Valletta was treated to a little bit of comic relief from Zaren Bonnici, known as Zaren tal-Ajkla. Zaren took to his cherry picker...

With our single transferrable voting system, we are unique in Malta in that we have one of the most complicated vote counting processes on the face of the Earth. That process takes days on end and, at...

The United Nations yesterday convened for a session where up to 170 countries were expected to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate. It is also quite apt that the event took place on Earth...

The closure of the Marsa power station a little over a year ago has undoubtedly provided a long-deserved breath of fresh air for the long-plagued residents of Marsa, the residents of surrounding...

The property market is not as uniform and monolithic as it is often made out to be. Recent years have seen a huge development of the letting market, as opposed to outright sales. There are many...

The Prime Minister just can’t seem to get it right with the whole Konrad Mizzi saga. Government MPs presented a united on Monday night in parliament to win a vote of no confidence against the...

The vote of no confidence was won in parliament by the government last night, but the Panama Papers will not just go away. Joseph Muscat’s government’s massive parliamentary majority...

Come tomorrow’s scheduled 13-hour debate on the Opposition’s motion of no confidence in the government, there will certainly be a lot of questions asked. The vast majority of those...

There is a limit as to how much can a ‘cause’, ‘celebre’ though it may be, can dominate the news in any country, even a small, convoluted, politically-fixated one such as...

Germany is planning to introduce legislation which will require migrants to learn German or face deportation. The planned legislation is being drawn up by German interior Minister Thomas de...