The question going through many people’s minds right now, after seeing the picture of the shortfin mako caught a couple of weeks ago is not just: “Is it safe to swim?” but “Are the fish farms attracting sharks?”...

Earlier this month, the Competitiveness and Communi-cations Ministry and the Management Efficiency Unit began the important process of getting industry’s feedback from stakeholders to be integrated into our National Reform Programme. ...

This is a country in tut-tutting mode! A country either on the brink of great change and going forward, or a country disintegrating because it does not really want to recognise its mistakes and move on....

Ladies and gentlemen, a word of advice. If any of you were planning on “leaving your children in the freezer” at any time in the near future, I humbly suggest ...

It was reported in court that David Zerafa, the man who stands accused of having murdered his wife’s lawyer, Michael Grech, told a police informer that he did it because Dr Grech was responsible for the break up of Mr Zerafa’s family. ...

Martin Gatt is a 43-year-old assistant manager who used to work with a mid-sized shoe manufacturing company at Bulebel. The foreign-owned company had been in Malta since 1983 ...

I have always suspected it but now the proof is concrete solid. We are living in a state of denial....

As we get older we tend to remember and categorise everything by decades. I wonder if that’s meant to camouflage something or merely a way of enveloping experiences and events so that they fit, prim and proper, into the letterbox of time....

Economic history teaches us that more often than not, an economic bust is the result of the fallout from the collective hysteria attributed to an asset or a class of assets by a population drunk on false financial expectations ...

In local politics, there is no rest for the weary. Just when ministers and MPs were gearing themselves up for the summer parliamentary recess, 20 business firms involved in the supply of pharmaceuticals, medical ...