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....

Is public broadcasting serving its true purpose? Unfortunately, no authority seems to dare answer the intriguing question....

Now that the New Year is in full swing, we need all the strength we can muster to cope with the barrage of usually bad news that will hit us in the media. ...

While several pundits have spent most of the past year commenting on the difficult task Malta is experiencing as it goes through a process of economic restructuring and reform as if this were a result of EU membership, the truth is rather different. Malta...