The home affairs minister, Dr Tonio Borg, thought that by rushing to print a reply to my contribution on the state of the police force he would have sealed the matter and closed the debate. How mistaken he is....

As the day of reckoning for the present government is fast approaching, Maltese families will be asking themselves how best to address the various serious shortcomings of this ...

As we get closer to the next general election landmark, the political parties and individual politicians will concentrate more and more on an analysis of the electoral mood. Which way is the wind blowing?...

I have to admit to being somewhat sceptical over what purports to be the Maltese community in Australia and the activities it organises on an annual basis to generate the concept of a Little Malta (can it really be any ...

Over the past three weeks, I must have spent a total of 25 hours in hospital waiting rooms. I didn’t mind at all. As long as I am warm, not hungry or thirsty, and armed with some magazine...

There has never been a time in politics when impressions did not matter and when unscrupulous individuals did not distort the facts for their own ends. ...

Last week the party in opposition issued a nine-page paper on its foreign policy. The document makes interesting reading, but is also very worrying. It seems that Sant is all out to strengthen relations with the South American sub-continent ...

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet ...

The Planning and Priorities Coordination Division (PPCD) within the Office of the Prime Minister has just launched the third call for project proposals under the European Social Fund (ESF) within the Malta ...

How odd it is that people continue to confuse what is secular with what is religious. It is as though they cannot adjust to having two authorities in their lives – religious authority and state authority – and so they wish that ...