Summer is over, the political summer, that is.   Early tomorrow morning, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives will meet, two sessions in one day, to discuss the...

The American peoples and nation have a very high regard for their generals and admirals. Everywhere you wander in the US you note myriad statues of generals and famous militiamen: some on horseback,...

The subject of oil and gas has been associated with airy-fairy political spin prior to each election and regrettably has been labelled a taboo subject. However, with a change of government Malta, is...

EU rules governing the definition of what constitutes package travel are in the process of being changed to adapt the relevant regulations in EU law to the realities of modern-day online booking...

On Monday 19 August 2013 World Humanitarian Day was celebrated across the globe. It marked the beginning of a month long campaignduring which events will take place around the world to raise the...

This year I kept a promise I have made to myself on consecutive years: to escape from the Stella Maris blitz. When I made it known that I was going to Sicily, and why, some friends tried to dampen my...

In my recent contribution on Somalia, published in the Malta Independent on  Monday 12 August 2013,  I may have sounded to many readers too optimistic about the new prospects for...

Many say that the current government gets its way and silences all criticism through the deployment of fear. In a way, but really it's a lot more complicated than that. Fear alone makes people...

The jury is still out on Francis I, who surprised the world only five months ago when he stepped out onto the balcony above St Peter's Square in Rome as the 266th Pope. Since his election this...

The current year is the International Year of Statistics. At times statisticians, or rather their work, may be perceived as monotonous and tedious. On the contrary - statisticians write informative...