The temperature has now soared and one can hardly walk in the shade during the late morning or early afternoon hours, let alone under the scorching sun.  People are encouraged to avoid staying...

I had long been planning to write this today and the events of the past day have rather shaken up what I wanted to say, with the removal of Joe Cassar from health and the promotion of Claudio Grech,...

The results obtained by Maltese students who sat for their ordinary and advanced level examinations in the core subjects are not at all encouraging.   Statistics that have been uploaded on...

The Labour Party is to commission and erect a monument to Dom Mintoff. It was voted in for change and progress, but instead seems to have its finger firmly on the rewind button, with neither the...

I have written twice to the Prime Minister on behalf of The Today Public Policy Institute. The first letter, a few days after his electoral victory, was to congratulate him on his victory and to place...

How many times have you heard yourself say “I’m sure of it!”, “no doubt” or something as absolute on the same lines? It seems that we tend to do this to reinforce a...

I was abroad in Croatia for the past two weeks. I strongly suggest that those who want to do business with this new EU country should do so immediately before others discover it. It has boundless...

Fragile though it sometimes is, tourism has steadily grown into one of the pillars of the Maltese economy. It is to the credit of each and every person on these islands that we have a tourism industry...

Do you get the same feeling of anxiety and unease I get every time an expert or group of experts get it into their heads to “study and analyse” some particular item of traditional delicacy...

In line with its evident strategy of opening many fronts at one go, the Labour government has started two separate consultation processes to assess whether school uniforms should remain as they are,...