As summer kicks in, the civil service falls into half-day mode and the political parties start to reduce the momentum, looking forward to their hard-earned summer holidays, there is usually very little happening to rock the so-called political boat....

The public holidays issue has reared its head again over the past days, following the controversy that broke out 18 months ago....

Students are finishing their exams and, with the temperatures rising, families will soon start flocking to the beach on a regular basis. Some have already been, but for many, summer only starts when school is over....

The National Statistics Office announcement last week that the first quarter of the year saw a 3.1 per cent growth, following the recent NSO and Central Bank figure of last year’s growth as being in the 2.5 per cent ...

Speakers at a seminar on good quality children’s television, organised last week by the Commissioner for Children and the Broadcasting Authority, pointed fingers at local television stations which, they claimed,...

Yesterday, the world-marked Elderly Abuse Awareness Day, specifically set up to make the people more conscious about a matter that is normally not given too much attention in the media....

The Lisbon Agenda, a 10-year plan to turn Europe into the leading knowledge-based economy by 2010, has been a letdown for bureaucrats in Brussels and has created a distorted benchmarking exercise for European Union member states....

It was obvious wasn’t it? That the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader would have opposing views as to whether Malta’s membership in the European Union has been a successful exercise or otherwise....

The year 2008 will be crucial for Malta....

Malta is a country that fears change. When the nation was being asked to vote for European Union membership, it was completely polarised and split into two very distinct camps....