For many years, there was talk of the formation of a trade union council, embracing all the movements that represent workers under one umbrella in a bid to strengthen their struggle for the protection and improvement of workers’ rights....

We are all proud – we all should be – that a small island like Malta has its own language. Foreigners we get in touch with and who have little knowledge about Malta think that our main language is English...

The Malta Labour Party and the General Workers Union have both thought it fit to organise marches in Valletta to protest against measures taken by the government in recent weeks. ...

Many Maltese people believed that a new dawn was possible for local politics with the Prime Minister’s seeming invitation for dialogue and cooperation with the MLP when leader Joseph Muscat was elected. ...

Forty years on, the monster we all thought was dead and buried has raised its ugly head again – the spectre, that is, of mortal sin in public policy....

This summer, Malta received the highest number of boat people that it has taken in since the phenomenon of irregular migration by sea reared its head....

The debate as to whether or not to set up a court specifically for drug related offences carries on....

As Europe awoke yesterday morning, most of the continent breathed a heavy sigh of relief and shared at least partially in the scenes of jubilation being beamed across the Atlantic to their television screens....

By the time people read this, the United States of America will have a new president. There are, of course, two candidates to vote for in this highly politically polarised nation....

The main issue in preparing this year’s budget speech must have been how to tackle the country’s economy in the wider context of the credit squeeze and consequent financial turmoil in the world....