The Opposition is quite right in objecting to the prospect, as proposed in the government’s IVF Bill that couples seeking to undergo IVF are to appear before a board that would judge their...

While Maltese people’s confidence in politics has dipped, especially after the internal ructions within the PN and the way the PL appeared to be clamouring for an election, confidence in our...

The government, rightly, has made an issue out of the fact that although slightly increasing, Malta’s unemployment rate stands at 6.5 %, one of the lowest in Europe.   Jobs are what...

Europe awoke yesterday morning to a US electoral result that it had anticipated and which most on this side of the pond had hoped for - a second four-year term for US President Barack Obama. ...

Speaking in the debate on Xarabank last Friday, Prime Minister Gonzi finally admitted what everybody else knows – that the Arriva service is not there yet.   To date, neither he nor...

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...