In a television interview in 1990, the American Republican politician Phil Gram summed up in two sentences how difficult it is for a government to come up with a budget that is pleasing to the people and yet provides a solution to the country’s problems....

The increase in the international price of oil and the weakening of the Maltese lira against the dollar has inevitably meant that the rising cost of the country’s fuel bill – in part or in full – will have to be passed on to the consumer....

“Malta needs more judges and magistrates” – in essence this was the message given by Chief Justice Vincent Degaetano on the opening day of the forensic year....

The appointment of Angela Merkel as the first female German Chancellor and the first from the former East Germany is a landmark in the country’s struggle to surmount the obstacles of unification following the end of the Cold War, 15 years ago....

The statement made by opposition leader Alfred Sant during last week’s General Workers’ Union national congress provides much food for thought....

In the second half of the 1990s, as Malta was coming to grips with Mount Maghtab and the problems associated with the increasing amount of waste being dumped there, environmentalists came up with the 3Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle. ...

Malta has heard so much about low cost carriers that it has almost become a passé topic that seems to be discussed at length without any real developments taking place. ...

Only the other day, days after the hike in fuel prices (as this newspaper had foretold), a petrol station owner showed customers his weekly bill from Enemalta: this average station gets around four deliveries a week...

The visit by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi to Washington DC and his meeting with US President George W. Bush can only be described as truly successful....

So Tony Zarb was confirmed as GWU Secretary General by 468 votes to Manwel Micallef’s 116. ...