Some 10 days ago, when the international rating agency Fitch expressed its opinion that, due to persistently high inflation, Malta would more likely qualify for the adoption of the euro in 2009 rather than 2008, the silence from government was deafening....

September 11, 2001. American Airlines 11. United Airlines 175. American Airlines 77. United Airlines 93. North Tower 8:46am (2:46pm in Malta). South Tower 9:03am. The Pentagon 9:38am. ...

The boffins running the political party machines know that, in politics, images can be crucial – which explains why the Nationalist Party is bent on capitalising on its EU ...

“Be smart” is this year’s slogan for the festivities of one of Malta’s milestones, Independence Day, another in the long chain of achievements by Nationalist governments....

This is the title of a book authored by Canadian journalist Paul William Roberts, who experienced the invasion of Iraq from a very different...

Despite the frequent indications to the contrary, we’re not living in a third world country. ...

This case concerned an appeal to the Constitutional Court alleging a breach of the fundamental human right to the presumption of innocence till proven guilty protected by the Maltese Constitution and the ...

As time goes by this government grows more and more intolerant to criticism....

So the Prime Minister would like to make us all believe that his way of doing politics is "new." ...

One of my favourite stories this summer has to be the one about a member of the whale family, the dolphins who are kept near the Splash and Fun Park, being monitored for the Robbie Williams concert, in case the noise levels disturbed them....