On Monday night, I stayed in, glued to my computer. I was not alone. The entire country, connected via the Net, was watching the unfolding drama inside Parliament.   Now there is no need to...

The arrival of Monsignor Charles Scicluna has come as a breath of fresh air to a Maltese Church sorely in need of succour and reinvigoration. The first test of any leader is his ability to raise...

Doha was never expected to break much new ground as far as the recent UN Summit goes, but when all is said and done it had a number of pivotal and key issues on the agenda ranging from rescuing the...

This legislature has been the toughest one for the Nationalist Party in government since Independence. This administration has had to face multiple challenges while implementing a very ambitious...

It seems to me that corruption, which Eddie Fenech Adami had promised to snuff out roots and all, has instead become endemic in Malta under the Nationalists, spreading to local government and,...

This week we witnessed everything that is wrong with the democratic institutions of our country: Parliament, Cabinet and the Law Courts.   In Parliament, we witnessed a rare event when a...

Recently, Europe has seemed to be on fire as students protested against austerity measures, a reduction in education funding, an increase in university fees, gross unemployment, especially among young...

So the issue of the life of this government has now been tried, tested and determined. Earlier this week we witnessed the votes in Parliament on a money bill which saw Government losing out on the...

This year’s Disability Week, which was celebrated between 3 (World Disability Day) and 10 December (World Human Rights Day) was a special one, since we commemorated three important...

Water is the primary source of life on earth. Cities and dwellings have been built around rivers or close to a source of water. Despite the fact that this barren rock does not have rivers or lakes, it...