Archbishop Mgr Mercieca was careful in his choice of words last Thursday, but the overall implication is that a woman’s place is in the home and that her first responsibility is the family, not the career....

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi seemed to be in a euphoric mood last Wednesday night....

As the clock struck midnight on 20 September 1964, Malta entered a new age of hope and promise, uncertainty and expectations. Independence Day was a new chapter in a colourful history of a nation that was eager to start afresh....

It has become a brand in its own right – smart this, smart that. First we had SmartCity@Malta (the @ has since been dropped) and now we have the Nationalist Party telling us to be smart (and obviously vote for the PN the next time we have an election)....

Last week the second three-year plan for Heritage Malta was unveiled....

There is only one real Dar Malta, and it is not the drab, asbestos-filled building in Brussels. No, the real Dar Malta is the hospital....

We have learnt to expect negative results from the tourism industry, judging by the way the sector has been developing over the past months, perhaps even years...

Statistics published earlier this week by Eurostat confirmed that the current employment scenario in Malta is miles away from what it should be. ...

The General Workers’ Union would like to make things appear as being normal within its own structures....

Recent figures published by the National Statistics Office indicate a downward trend in the number of visitors to museums and historic sites. Last year, they totalled 1,980,123, which was 4.2 per cent down when compared to the previous year....