Democratic countries all the world over have assimilated the wisdom of devising checks and balances as a safeguard against the abuse of power by the government of the day....

On Sunday, Malta’s membership in the European Union will be one year old. One year that has led to a diversity of experiences in many fields. ...

Is it my dirty mind or are government and the monetary authorities, as we approach the important decision of selecting a central parity rate for the Maltese lira to join ERM II, panic stricken?...

I have no doubt that the Nationalist Party has a great leader. A very great leader. Neither do I doubt that the PN has several honest, hard working and valid Members of Parliament. ...

The recent regional elections in Italy might have been eclipsed by the death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II but they sent a loud and resounding message to the Berlusconi administration which crashed badly at the polls in a most decisive manner....

Unemployment must be the workers’ worst nightmare. Work is central to life and losing one’s job normally means a degraded lifestyle. ...

On several occasions I emphasised the role that the maritime sector could play within the new realities which would emerge after Malta joined the European Union last May. ...

A recent report in The Economist shows that, in the UK at least, domestic violence is dropping sharply while violence by strangers is rising equally sharply. ...

Some people have reacted badly to the election of a conservative pope....

As fate would have it, the last two editions of Bondiplus dealt with the papacy. The first was on the death of one pope, the other on the one who stepped into his red leather shoes. ...