Government ministries are blatantly flaunting the fact that their public-salaried officials will be holding meetings with the general public at Labour Party clubs all over the islands.   Any...

As from 1 January this year, the European Union’s new ‘Creative Europe’ funding programme came into operation, bringing to the table a total budget of €1.46 billion to finance...

In late 2013, the European Parliament launched an inquiry into the work that was carried out by the Troika in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and Ireland both during and after the European economic crisis....

Marlene Farrugia speaks like an outsider. That means the health minister must feel like one.   Marlene Farrugia, the Labour MP who lives with the Health Minister, has been in the news rather...

Every year we hear more and more statistics that violence in the home is escalating. Recent reports from nearby Italy tell us that there is a women being killed every three days, a shocking number...

During the past days the two leading political parties convened separate press conferences and other activities wherein they highlighted their major achievements in the preceding twelve months. They...

David Cameron took his small daughter to nursery school some days ago and the resulting photographs were published throughout the British press and even in France. In all of those I saw, the little...

I honestly cannot understand why the Leader of the Opposition accepted the invitation to go on Xarabank and face the prime minister.   I am not saying this because I feel he was roundly...

Imagine, for argument’s sake, that a Nationalist government decided to permanently anchor a tanker containing gas off Ghar id-Dud, in Sliema.   Just try to envisage what the people of...

Of course, few people in the world today take the international media seriously anymore. It is why most of us now prefer to watch/follow an array of news-providers rather than just one station that...