It was Edward Scicluna’s birthday yesterday and the minister celebrated it with his latest Budget Speech. However, he did not have many presents to give. Seriously now, the Budget aims to...

Today is budget day. Long gone are the years of being glued to the television or radio to see how much a can of tuna has increased by. It’s hard to believe that barely 30 years ago, that is what...

Yesterday, for the second time in this pre-budget week, the Prime Minister hinted that the country’s transport woes will be addressed in some way, shape or form in tomorrow’s budget. The...

Today is World Mental Health Day. When most people think of this commemorative day, their mind tends to go towards those people who have some form of a mental or intellectual disability. But the truth...

It is most certainly time to plan for the future. Malta needs a long-term traffic management plan. Aside from the usual stop gap measures, such as building flyovers, underpasses and incentivising...

The justice minister, standing in for the travelling transport minister during Tuesday’s surprise parliamentary debate on the national traffic plague, had the good sense to acknowledge that the...

The massive surge in residency permits being issued to non-Maltese has created a spin-off problem – their children. Before anyone gets carried away by the opening paragraph, we will specify...

The charity event Paqpaqli ghal istrina quickly turned into a nightmare as a car tore through a flimsy set of barricades and into a throng of people. 26 people were injured, five of them critically,...

After a rather inordinate Summer Recess, the House of Representatives reconvenes again this evening. We had got rather used to silence from that part of the nation, and, before that, we had got...

It’s October, which means people and places everywhere are ‘going pink’ for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And beyond the tragedy of breast cancer and the lives it affects and ends...