As expected, the first weeks of 2016 greeted us with a differing mixture of news: some positive, others less so. From a financial and economic perspective, the latest Standard & Poor’s...

Readers hope to witness an exciting 2016 with the euro surviving the resurgence of a strong US economy, and of course next year may bring more surprises in the political scene with critical French and...

With all its frequent challenges, our working schedules can however take us further inside the bigger world. The global village is where we meet our counterparts and seek further knowledge for...

Dr Etienne Grech, Family Doctor  and Labour MP. Whenever the Leader of the Opposition lambasts the health sector, he somehow always manages to look like a wayward child running around with...

As we welcome the New Year, we would do well to look at our achievements in recent months and start thinking of how to sustain what is good and how to improve matters that could have been done...

Almost two years ago, Malta might have lost its dignity or was on the verge of losing it. This was all about the controversy surrounding the selling of Maltese citizenship to people with strong...

The training and re-training of all the staff involved in the care of the elderly has been a major task on my agenda since taking office. I constantly insist that the services provided must be of the...

One couldn’t help immediately smelling a rat in the New Year’s televised kitchen drama. It was strikingly artificial, insincere and certainly undignified for an address to the nation by a...

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” These are the first lines written by John Donne, a 17th-century poet, in his Devotions...

The notion of justice may have several forms but its most essential element is encompassed in the classical phrase becoming the possession of the Western tradition: ‘suum cuique’ –...