The good, the bad and the ugly...

Most politicians sail with the wind. A few tack into the wind. Eddie Fenech Adami raised wind and threw the Maltese economy into a morass of national debt....

Some people are so surprising – or perhaps they are entirely predictable. ...

Judging by the amount of noise being made by the unions about the protest march tomorrow, one would think that Maltese workers were storming the Bastille in the thick of the French Revolution, blood dripping from their forehead. At issue, however, is hard...

I wish that…… elections in Iraq and Palestine bring stability in these countries and open fresh prospects for a tangible and lasting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict....

The generous outpouring of cash and material donations for the victims of the tsunami (apart from the other successful fund-raising activities for local charities) has prompted some bright sparks to claim that there is no economic crisis after all, “you s...

Panto in Malta, the one at the Manoel Theatre, has become almost an institution. People flock to see it, getting a seat is difficult and this year was no exception....

Here follows a list of the great inventions and discoveries, in approximate chronological order, that in the course of history have made the world the utterly inimitable place it is:...

It is not without trepidation that the people of these Islands have rung in the New Year. As they crossed the threshold and face a future whose outlines are already determined, they know that hard realities await them...

How can one explain that while the US economy is growing at a fast pace of nearly four per cent per annum, producing new jobs at an average rate of 175,000 per month, and while its unemployment rate is stable at 5.4 per cent, the US dollar has reached a r...