Prime Minister Joseph Muscat yesterday said he was optimistic about lowering the country’s deficit below the 3 % of Gross Domestic Product threshold as stipulated by the EU.   The PM...

Two news items which followed each other in quick succession have sent shock waves down the collective spine of the general public.   We celebrated the choice of Valletta as the capital city...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat finds himself in Brussels for a meeting today, on one of the very issues which saw the Labour Party sweep to power in March – Energy.   According to the...

Many people think that Malta has a severe lack of tree cover because it is simply a barren island. This is actually not the case. Malta was once like Cyprus, to give an example. It was covered with...

It is now official. Valletta has been named European Capital of Culture 2018, and it is fully deserved.   All too often in Malta, we focus on the negative. We forget that we live on these...

So, after all that; we didn’t win… again. But perhaps this time, we might have proved to ourselves that the other times when we didn’t do well was not because we don’t have...

This newspaper has been hauled over the coals this week after exposing allegations of malpractice and more at the Rainbow Ward, the children’s cancer unit, at Mater Dei Hospital. But the kind of...

The truth be told, Gianluca’s song is actually quite good, as far as Eurovision Song Contest standards go. The song Tomorrow made it into the final being the penultimate song to be announced as...

Foreign Minister George Vella hit the headlines for saying that “we must control the media” (irridu nikkontrollaw il-media).   He made the remarks in parliament on Wednesday...

It is absolutely shocking that in a country of this population, 26 people were found guilty of and were given prison sentences for abusing children last year alone.  It should be pointed out that...