The Sant’ Antnin recycling plant in Marsascala seems to be shaping up nicely and is surely a massive improvement over the way things were just a couple of years ago....

It was inevitable that, one day, the dreaded news that Labour MP Karl Chircop lost the fight for his life would have arrived. ...

Going by what is said, written and discussed by most Maltese, we are still living in cloud-cuckoo land. The world around us is falling apart and we are still thinking we will inevitably be safe....

When earlier this year the government announced that it was paving the way for the liberalisation of the hearses market, which forms part of the public transport sector, the Public Transport Federation went into a frenzy. ...

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority has decided to move its more important meetings – those that concern matters of national importance and big projects that could create controversy – to new and bigger venues....

It is no secret that governments take the most unpopular decisions – those which could cost it votes in an election –...

The government yesterday announced that it was going to get tough on people who tap into the water table and that it was imposing a one-year moratorium on the sinking of any new boreholes....

Tinderboxes were the precursors to matches and basically consisted of a box filled with charcloth, possibly some straw and a piece of flint. It gave rise to the English expression when a spontaneous fire broke out: “It went up like a tinder box”....

Ever since Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi was elected, the two successive Nationalist governments he has headed have preached the virtues of consultation and discussion...

Taking the oil bull by the hornsAnd all the country together said “Ouch!” And all the representative bodies, normally at loggerheads, ...