The ongoing events in Northern Africa and the Near East are followed by many of us with close attention and not a little hope.   These peoples, after all, are our neighbours and culturally...

Many of us have no idea how we are progressively being surrounded by surveillance cameras.   The thin wedge of the fact emerges whenever a serious crime is committed and the investigators...

The strength of this country is that while at times it seems nothing can be done properly, that this country is on the edge of a cliff, and people tend to expect the worst, then when the occasion...

The sun’s rays light up a panorama of empty streets, houses still wrapped in sleep, and in street corners the evidence of the over-indulgence of the previous night. Solitary strollers encounter...

The New Year has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, to the future. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want to make and resolve to follow through on those...

In a few hours time 2012 will be consigned to the history books. For Malta this has been the most eventful year since the turn of the millennium, with unexpected twists and turns being the order of...

Tonight is New Year’s Eve. 2012 went by in a blur, although at times, it seems like we were on an odyssey just to have some peace. Life really has become a conveyor belt. The hot and beautiful...

In 2009, President George Abela presented the nation with a worthy challenge to rise to when he made the surprise announcement that the Istrina annual fund-raising event would no longer dangle the...

In its Financial Stability Report for the first half of 2012, the Central Bank of Malta said that a weak property market is fuelling a sharp increase in non-performing loans in the construction...

Comparisons are always odious, but they will have to be made. Louis Grech was the sole contestant for the post of deputy leader for parliamentary affairs within the Labour Party and he has, as...