From the outset one must acknowledge that 2012 was a good year for tourism. But one also needs to analyse deeper certain figures and results achieved as some statements being made repetitively about...

For the last two or three years, the Labour Party has been constantly attacking Health Minister Joe Cassar – sometimes verging on a personal level too – while highlighting what it...

I sometimes wonder how the various pronouncements of Maltese politicians would be seen through the eyes of a scathing democracy, like that of Britain or France. How would they be handled by the press...

The last time I met George Farrugia, now at the centre of investigations about Enemalta and oil, was at the airport while we were waiting for different planes.   We both hail from Hamrun and...

There should be no doubt left that this electoral campaign is slowly but surely changing the face – and balls – of Maltese politics. Things we have both loved and hated all along are being...

To the unknowing mind, the PN’s promise in its election programme seems like a cliché simply put there to fill a gap and sound nice. In reality, diabetes is a real threat to all of us as...

This week the European Parliament held a debate in advance of the preparatory meetings for this year's European Semester. The European Semester was set up in 2011 following the financial and...

After launching its political manifesto, the Nationalist Party has followed up with the approval of its election programme, which includes its proposals for the next five years. These proposals, which...

The third week of the electoral campaign delivered the war of the tablets. Labour was the first to say it would be giving a tablet to Year 4 pupils in all public, private and church schools as part of...

Data gathering and fieldwork has commenced for the preparation of management plans and legal provisions for all terrestrial Natura 2000 sites across the Maltese Islands. These plans and legislation...