The talent that has been brought over to Malta this year is absolutely phenomenal and we are gaining kudos and exposure around the world as a result....

The fact that the Education authorities and the Malta Union of Teachers managed to agree on an education reform is truly remarkable. The education system in Malta is in dire need of this reform, which has long been in the offing. ...

The protracted and much politicised issue of Maltacom’s land transfers deserves a clarification after new details of the deal, and the hitch that has befallen it, came to light in this newspaper last week....

The events of the past week showed us once again clearly the almost impossibility of anything in this country avoiding becoming the ball to be kicked around by our national Punch and Judy show – politics....

There has been a long-understood knowledge of the fact that the education system in Malta – once one of the best – had slipped, perhaps not so much in standards, but more in keeping up with the times....

VISET held a media briefing earlier this week where a breakdown of Malta’s cruise liner industry was given. ...

European Commissioner Franco Frattini has been reported as having informed Maltese MP in the Italian parliament Arnold Cassola that Italy and Libya will begin to patrol the latter’s borders with Chad and Niger as from next January....

The Government seems to have struck a great deal in the sale of its 73.72 per cent stake in Tug Malta. ...

The government has just announced a four-year Lm8 million plan to revamp the Crafts Village, and not before time....

These were supposed to be the weeks in which the government’s popularity soared. The opening of the Mater Dei Hospital and the decision regarding the euro were supposed to have been among the most signal achievements of the current administration....