Newspapers do not normally report bomb threats, unless they lead to some form of accident such as when some time ago a police dog was injured during a search for a bomb after a threat had been made at the law courts in Valletta...

The thousands of people who, last Saturday morning, queued up for hours outside the Labour Party headquarters to give in their name for legal action to be taken against the government have given the party...

Immigration, and in particular detention of illegal immigrants, has been the focus of the country’s attention in the past days with a visit by EU Justice, ...

It is simply not enough for government spokesmen and ministers to act optimistic and keep smiling in the face of the global economic crisis and to keep repeating the mantra that Malta may well escape the direst impacts of the recession....

The news came as no surprise. We all knew the economic difficulties that had hit elsewhere would have reached our shores sooner or later. The recession that has gripped countries all over the world is now official in Malta too. ...

A years-long battle with the European Union has ended up in what can be considered as an enormous victory for Malta....

The government has recently launched a white paper aimed to reform the justice system. Proposals include the possibility of introducing a parole system and other mechanisms aimed...

Rumours about corruption in Maltese football abound year after year, competition after competition, game after game, but unless there is a concrete basis on which the police and the Malta Football Association can work on...

The government continues to insist that Malta has not been affected by the global recession, or that the effects have been marginal, but the latest Eurostat figures that show a dramatic decline in the country’s exports should ring the alarm bells...

A year ago today – the culmination of a bruising election campaign. The tension. Then, next day, a year ago tomorrow, the tremendous tension, the whispers, the rumours. ...