It was a foregone conclusion. Simon Busuttil was on Wednesday night elected PN leader, taking 93% of votes cast. He was the sole runner, after Mario de Marco bowed out of the race in the first...

Last year the Maltese spent 12% more on books, newspapers and periodicals than they had in 2011 and, according to figures released by the National Statistics Office yesterday, the average spend on...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat did well in giving an interview to the BBC to scotch fears that Malta would need a Cyprus style bailout.   The PM gave a candid and frank interview, in which he...

The Mattia Preti centenary exhibition by Heritage Malta and the Comune of Taverna at the Palace in Valletta is a veritable feast of art.   We Maltese consider Preti as ‘our’...

As soon as it was announced that Jason Micallef was to be the new V-18 chairman, the dogs started baying and the knives were out.   The first reaction of many, was that he was unsuited for...

One of the first arguments that people put forward when Joseph Muscat succeeded Alfred Sant as the leader of the Labour Party was that it was more of the same, that the man was cut from the same cloth...

After the incessant internecine fighting which wracked the Nationalist Party over the past five years, it was so refreshing to see men behave with dignity, loyalty, a sense of duty and above all else,...

Despite the circumstances taken into consideration this week when the courts delivered an arguably lenient sentence to three 17-year-old boys involved in the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl, the...

The four candidates who are vying to lead the Nationalist Party are set to take part in an activity tonight together.   It will be an unprecedented event in the PN’s history, as the...

The Nationalist Party is in a transition.   It is in between leaders, so to speak. Lawrence Gonzi announced that he will not be seeking re-election as party leader soon after the election...