The Christmas holidays are well-known all over the world for the enforced closeness people are pushed into, with the accent being on family reunions and the like. Many welcome these occasions but some...

The government’s citizenship scheme did not make the grade the first time round, even though, to their shame, it was passed by Parliament and even signed by the President.   The...

We seem to have reverted back to the old Mintoff ways of celebrating Christmas with a surprise, usually of the negative type, awaiting us on Christmas Eve.   The country spent countless days...

The government and the opposition will be meeting again today to try to come to terms on the way forward on the implementation of the citizenship scheme.   Five meetings, lasting several...

Following this newspaper’s revelation last Sunday that Malta had chosen the least effective means of going to the rescue of hundreds of Syrian refugees on 11 October, a decision that could have...

Magistrate Carol Peralta dismissed calls for his resignation following the incident which saw him order the arrest of a journalist for attempting to take photographs of a party that was being held in...

The government has received 21 proposals, from 17 companies, for land reclamation projects. It has appointed a committee to evaluate them on the basis of how innovative they are and their...

Just as parliament wound up and rose for Christmas recess, Parliamentary Secretary for Justic e Owen Bonnici said that the law courts are facing an acute lack of space. We are not talking judicial...

EU leaders will tackle the vexed and costly issue of defence cooperation at a summit starting today, aiming for modest progress at a time when budgets everywhere are under intense...

Monday night’s Public Accounts Committee session was – excuse the pun – jam-packed with allegations, revelations and more.   George Farrugia – who received a...