Politicians should lead by example. Most of all, politicians should not be above the law, or consider themselves to be as such...

Ministers and parliamentary secretaries, following in the footsteps of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi who kicked the practice off on 6 March...

Far too many people in positions of responsibility are choosing to focus the debate on Malta’s influx of irregular migrants and the perceived threat to national security rather than ...

A 10-year-old boy was killed by a pack of stray dogs that attacked him in nearby Sicily earlier this week. One can imagine the shock of such a cruel death, and the controversy that erupted all over Italy following the incident....

Pope Benedict XVI has again stoked the fires of controversy by rejecting the use of condoms to fight Aids, particularly in the HIV hotbed of sub-Saharan Africa....

Ahhh.... Finally we’re seeing some form of common sense when it comes to voting in elections....

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....