In two days’ time, you should have been able to start benefiting from tax cuts, an increase in children’s allowance and many other measures that were announced in the presentation of the...

Here we are, at the end of a year filled with anxiety and expectations, living a Christmas unlike any other, and expecting a further turmoil-filled two months until the election is over and done with,...

OMG, so much drama on the local scene this year. The judiciary are once again tainted by corruption and unethical behaviour, and once again one wonders whether the members of the Commission for the...

It’s Christmas and it’s time to be merry. Most of us are on a light work schedule if not on a long hard-earned vacation. It was my intention not to write shop this morning but there were a...

In recent times, unemployment rates have been making headlines across the European Union. However, whilst the number of those seeking employment is high in the EU, the number of those...

2012 is almost over now. And yes, this ending year was surely an eventful year through not along the interpretation of some in terms of the 5125-year-long cycle encrypted into the Mesoamerican Long...

Those who thought we would be having a quiet, apolitical Christmas are wrong.   Well, it was already difficult to imagine us munching turkey and mince pies without saying a word about the...

After Simon Busuttil’s election to the Nationalist Party’s deputy leadership, it was inevitable that the Joseph Muscat/Jason Micallef cabal would find the first tenuous excuse to remove...

Nothing angers me more these days than the billboards put up by the political parties instead of their usual Punch & Judy ones attacking each other that we have become used to.   First...

Exactly when I was happily fulfilling a lifelong wish of visiting a place where the size of the Maltese community more or less is, across various generations, as big as the nation it originally came...