The publication of the Auditor General’s annual report has become a landmark for serious watchers of the Malta scene. It has been improving every year in content and presentation. The latest report – for the year 2003 – leaves no room for doubt that the ...

This is the story of a large old townhouse in Sta Venera. In the mid-1970s, a frail and elderly man moved out of this house after his wife died as he could no longer live there alone....

Hello... anybody home? Calling the Malta Labour Party here... come in, do you read me? You see, I just asked your friends round the corner for their reactions to last week’s incident at the Safi barracks... but it seems there’s a judicial inquiry going on...

A recent leading article in a local daily lamented that “we have started the new year on the wrong foot”, adding that “it is not too late to reverse the situation, but the social partners ought to live up to their responsibilities”....

It is utterly ridiculous and absurd for this tiny country, important though in reality insignificant to the majority of the 450 million citizens who form the European Union up to now, that we still evaluate divorce on a parameter as to whether there is a ...

Conventional wisdom has it that it is very difficult to identify a financial bubble in real time and that it is only with the benefit of hindsight, learning from the effects of the burst bubble, that the existence of the bubble can be proven....

Information first, taxation later is a maxim that is ignored by the government to its own detriment. ...

In 2003, the Equality for Men and Women Act [Act 1 of 2003, Cap 456] was passed and the subsequent setting up of the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality for Men and Women [NCPE] in January 2004 provided a body responsible for monitoring the ...

The prevailing debacle on the proposed removal of the entitlement to additional vacation leave for public holidays that fall at weekends is symptomatic of the political stasis that has pervaded institutional life in this country over the last few years. ...

The public holidays issue has been bubbling underneath the surface for a number of years....