Alternattiva Demokratika yesterday slammed the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, accusing them of acting like Father Christmas and using electoral gimmicks as they both fish for...

As the country nears the half-way mark of the general election campaign, it stands to reason that the last thing either of the two main political parties would like to enter into is a debate over...

Ah, the blessing of continuity. In the wake of David Cameron’s declaration that the UK wanted to renegotiate its EU membership package, Opposition leader Joseph Muscat commented the issue of...

Proposals to distribute tablets for free to school children, unveiled yesterday morning by both parties have completely overshadowed every other issue on the agenda of the election campaign. One thing...

The Labour Party’s proposals for sweeping reforms in the justice system are most welcome, the problems plaguing the delivery of justice in this country have been with us for decades now and it...

In the third week of the election campaign we are still discussing Labour’s proposals regarding energy.   The proposal has been dissected and pushed this way and that both by experts...

One of the main reasons why we have low female participation in the workforce is the lack of childcare facilities.   Those mothers who do return to the workforce, more often than not, end up...

Credit ratings agency Fitch has released a report saying that an ageing population is set to have a severe impact on the Maltese economy unless the necessary reforms take place. If reforms are not...

The energy debate was still a predominant force during the second week of the election campaign, and it does not seem likely that the discussion on the Labour Party’s proposals will stop. It is...

The reactions from both political parties to this week’s downgrading by the Standard and Poor’s credit ratings agency were at once both standard and poor.   Just after the agency...