I write this week about people who I consider my professional colleagues and, in a small media world where dog is not supposed to bite dog, this article may be considered, at least to those who are the subject of my writing, as being somewhat infra dig. ...

Last January, I had postulated that, if current trends in trade union membership and recruitment strategies persist, one could expect the UHM to reach and even overtake the GWU in the near future. With pensioners included, the UHM-GWU membership gap may b...

A front-page story, carried prominently in another section of the Press last week, highlighted the news that “the European Commission concluded that Malta is on track to correct its financial deficit and told the European Council no further recommendation...

The mammoth scale of the disaster in southeast Asia has cast something of a pall over the celebrations to mark the end of one year and the beginning of the next. That’s as it should be. ...

Just a few weeks ago, I chanced briefly on an episode of Xarabank. I'm not at all sure what it was meant to be about, although judging by the antics of the panel I imagine the topic was something like “How to talk loudly and interrupt people... repeatedly...

We have just dropped the year 2004 into the silent limbo of the past. It was, for many, a hard year, and thank Heavens that it can go....

Now we all know what a tsunami is. Not just the huge waves but the devastation and destruction, as man and technology stand powerless against the might of huge water energy released by sub-marine earth tremors....

Meeting Peter Van Wood again after so many years was a moving event. Together with the Net TV crew of Opinjonisti, Roberto Runza, Anna Maria Grima and Sergio Mallia, I travelled for a day and a half to Rome to be able to interview this international mast...

Well, this puts things into perspective, doesn’t it? We moan and groan, we rush around and complain, we wipe our brow at the thought of all the things that we have had to prepare for Christmas and still have to get ready for the year’s end, and then, whil...

The complaintFollowing the issue of a call for applications and interviews for the post of secretary to the Development Control Commission (DCC) of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (Mepa), an employee of the Authority lodged a complaint with...