Please allow me to correct some misconceptions Clyde Puli, chairperson, Standing Committee for Social Affairs, may have formed following the very poor report your ...

The English expression wanting to have your cake and eat it, often used to explain why you can’t have everything in life, is not the easiest of expressions to translate into ...

I am always extremely suspicious when budget measures are immediately revised, refined or...

It is practically impossible for a child who is left to fend for himself from the age of nine to turn out all right. Yet, when he turns out badly, ...

Beyond the inevitable political rhetoric, this year’s budget speeches by the Prime Minister and the Opposition leader hinged on one simple yet devastating point....

The electoral fever is beginning to rise at a time when the promise of a “new spring” is turning sour....

The 2006 budget, presented by the Prime Minister slightly earlier than usual this year, had the theme Nibnu fuq Hilitna (Building on our Abilities)....

Scene 1: Reading the Budget – 31.10.2005...

The best label for Budget 2006 is “out of focus”. While it should aim for achieving fiscal sanity through economic growth, it is instead trying to achieve it at the expense of economic growth....

Viticulture in Malta is one of the principal agricultural sectors and has an important socio-economic and environmental bearing....