August is with us and, as happened last year, we have begun to see a bigger influx of irregular immigrants. ...

As usual, the “quiet” summer period has been disturbed by industrial unrest – so are we heading for a long hot summer?...

There is a certain irony in the way the Prime Minister responded to the outgoing Ombudsman’s call for a Freedom of Information Act last week....

Farming is said to have begun in parts of present-day Turkey and the Middle East. Evidence has been found of people using seeds to plant their crops there some 10,000 years ago....

The photo published in this newspaper yesterday, showing a long queue of cars as they waited to embark on a Gozo Channel ferry while a similar long file of drivers tried to make their way out of the harbour....

The consultative document on the traffic management system in Valletta and Floriana is yet another step towards improving the situation in the capital city....

Parliament has risen for the summer recess and, for the next two months, until late September, there will be no sittings. ...

Switch on to Super One television or radio and you would think that everything is going wrong in this country of ours. Tune in to NET TV or Radio 101 and you would think that we are living in a paradise....

The attacks which have left 50 people dead in London, and now more than 80 in Egypt are a crude reminder if we ever needed one: no one, nowhere, is safe from the threat of terrorism....

Basically, the current controversy on rent laws is a matter of justice, no more, no less....