Every time a privatisation takes place, cries that we are selling the family silver arise, as if the authorities governing us are profligate spenders who are flogging all the silver we have accumulated in our dressers with much patience and sacrifice....

There is one very important rule in politics: take everything you hear and read with a pinch of salt. And this rule applies to both the party in government and the party that sits in opposition....

The Prime Minister’s two-day visit to France has been described as a highly successful promotion of Malta among French business interests....

Figures published last week by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European communities, and the National Statistics Office on the occasion of the International Day of the Family show an evident shift in the way our society – and that in Europe – is f...

The sale of the government’s 60 per cent stake in Maltacom to Dubai-based Tecom Investments for e220 million or Lm95 million opens a new chapter for the company and the telecommunications sector in Malta....

Sport enthusiasts, in particular the followers of Italian football – which includes thousands of Maltese – have been shocked by the scandal that has erupted in Italy over the last few days....

If you put a number of people, even a divided bunch, into a threatening situation they will band together to resist that threat. That is human nature....

The strategists who are planning these military style arson attacks, such as the one on Saviour Balzan’s house and on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s house and family, have now shown how ineffective they are where strategy is concerned....

Earlier this week Rural Affairs and Environment Minister George Pullicino took reporters to Maghtab to explain the process by which waste that accumulated at the landfill over the years is to be used to generate...

This government placed education high on its list of priorities along with the environment and the economy. ...