The march of time is as relentless as it is inexorable. And as we face the New Year, we do so in the knowledge that this is an election year....

On 2 September 2007 I wrote that I would rather not accept the bloodstained money of Mrs Suha Arafat in Mdina when it was decided that her remaining years would be spent ...

Even going back 40 long years ago to my first reporting days at the Law Courts, I realise that it has always irked me to observe the sheer inconsistency that prevails in cases where the sitting magistrate...

As time passes, more people seem to feel that they do not belong to any political party. This is not a new phenomenon. In most modern countries the percentage of the population that consider themselves ...

The trouble with choosing as your party’s secretary-general a man who’s not quite the sharpest knife in the drawer is this: he’s going to row you up s**t creek and...

Local media and several independent columnists seem to have bought into the idea, false in my opinion, that there is no “big” issue facing the electorate this time round....

Malta has caught up with the world in most social problems, and teenage pregnancies are no exception....

We may not be a nation of shop keepers, but the role of small entrepreneurs in our economy is vitally important. Thous-ands of families depend ...

There is considerable debate in the local press about the surcharge related to electricity tariffs, but hardly anyone ever mentions the fact that the system is not fair and that the...

One of my duties as president of the College of Councillors of the Nationalist Party is to attend all the seminars organised by the Association of Local Councils and represent my party. ...