There was a time when pressure on Malta's hospitals was largely associated with January and February, when the annual influenza season placed an additional burden on an already busy health service....

It would be fair to say that the appointment of Glenn Bedingfield as Home Affairs Minister in Robert Abela's new post-election Cabinet was one of the ones which raised the most eyebrows. Social...

It is rather bizarre that the Labour government felt the need to issue a statement yesterday week to announce that, as part of the ongoing Yorgen Fenech trial, jurors had been taken to an office at...

The past few years have offered little in the way of economic when it comes to Malta having a national airline. First, a few years back, the perennially financially troubled Air Malta folded and...

  Malta's beaches are many things at once: places to swim, socialise and escape the summer heat, sources of income for businesses and concession operators, and increasingly, spaces which...

Malta cannot seriously aspire to build a more competitive, productive and resilient economy while treating research and development as a peripheral concern. The latest figures published by Eurostat...

There is something deeply unsettling about seeing soldiers deployed on the streets of a peaceful country to deal with the kind of disorder that should ordinarily be handled by the police. The...

There is something particularly troubling about the government's silence over the future of the Birkirkara Police Station. Governments are usually quick to respond when criticism is directed at...

An explosion lasts seconds. Its consequences can linger for months, years, and sometimes much longer. More than two months have passed since the explosion at a pyrotechnics facility in Salini, an...

Joseph Muscat is upset that Opposition Leader Alex Borg has "brought Muscat into the picture" while briefly commenting on the ongoing trial of Yorgen Fenech. We hate to break it to the former...