If there is one area in which a new normal is setting in, its education. The closure of schools is unprecedented and home-schooling, with all its implications, has introduced dynamics that parents,...

There is already anecdotal evidence that the self-distancing imposed by COVID-19 is changing people’s payment habits – and the Chief Officer for Banking Operations at the Central Bank of...

With social isolation being as strong a risk factor for illness and mortality as smoking or obesity, what impact is the current requirement to distance ourselves from each other having on our...

Each generation is marked by something which happened as they were growing up, the older generation still speaks of World War 2. Those who grew up in the 60s, 70s and 80s speak of black and white TV,...

It might sound like a terrible cliché, but life and experience have shown that eventually there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Over the past few months, life as we know it has come...

Malta has reached a point where the measures to contain the COVID-19 are being gradually relaxed. This has given way to conflicting views between the health and economic sectors as to whether the...

Since the turn of the millennium, many Western societies including European member states have embarked on ambitious housing and urban development projects of national and international scope. The...

I am a big fan of innovation in the workplace and finding new and more efficient ways of doing things. Old schools of thought required iron discipline in the office to keep workers in line. This was...

Can we go on holiday this Summer? No, we cannot. At least not according to the Midwives and Nurses Union, whose opinion is that the tourism minister is jumping the gun with vague plans that would...

Last week, in order to commemorate Europe Day, I contributed to an online discussion about the Future of Europe which was organised by MEUSAC. I must say that as Minister responsible for Social...