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....

It would be “a mature political step which should be taken, and taken now”....

Today is five years to the day since the world stopped and watched in horror as New York’s twin towers burned, crumbled and came crashing to the ground....

So the government had to be dragged in, feet first, to do what it should have done ages ago – permit low cost airlines to come to Malta....