The pattern has now unfolded. Every time there is a fireworks explosion and lives are lost, more precautions are taken and the mortality rate freezes for a year. Each time, the trend reverses itself...

Most likely, the budget for 2013 will be presented in the last week of November. Although no exact date has been set, what the Prime Minister said on Xarabank last Friday and what was reported in the...

In a small country with an a electorate to match, and with the devotion with which such a high percentage of voters cast their ballots at every general election, undoubtedly one of the world’s...

Many times, there is a huge difference between how things are presented and what their real implications are.   A case in point is this week’s Eurostat release about unemployment....

The nominations for the post of deputy leader of the PN, which became vacant following the nomination of Tonio Borg for European Commissioner, have been open since Wednesday but as expected nobody so...

In the 2008 general election campaign, the government had promised Maltese businesses that, if re-elected, the government would adopt “red carpet instead of red tape” approach to business...

People who went up to Gozo over the past days, including people who went up for the opera, had the unwelcome experience of once again having to detour and probably pass through badly-signed or...

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi on Sunday announced that the government will present the budget once deputy Prime Minister Tonio Borg has been appointed as European Commissioner and his replacement in...

A continuous water front from the Grand Harbour in Valletta, snaking around into the three Cities, is the ultimate aim.   One understands that building crews could not set out and just do it...

As more and more innuendos continue to circulate around the John Dalli case with each passing day, the release of the OLAF report into Mr Dalli’s alleged misdoings also becomes more imperative...