The above conclusion is not mine. It was reached in the recent somewhat under-reported European Commission Assessment of the 2011 nation...

How interesting that on Thursday while the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (Mepa) refused five applications to sanction boathouses, or the extension of boathouses, in...

A new book for parents bearing the provocative title, Go the (F-word) to Sleep is creating quite a stir. (The book title uses the actual word, but I’m not using it here for obvious reasons...

Just imagine the tension at Air Malta as employees are told that more than 500 of them will have to go. Some of them are just setting up home; others have children to raise and l...

Last week I attended the PN’s General Conference by invitation. In view of what is going on behind the scenes it was, of course, interesting; up to a point. Such exercises are there to rally the troops and direct the voting public to tick the spot...

Time and time again, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has not been the “safe pair of hands” he was portrayed to be during the last election campaign. The way he handled the various situations he has had to face have exposed ...

We were in Madrid last week. I don’t know what my colleagues expected, but reading all the stories in the media about Spain having a 20%+ unemployment and so many stories about the Indignados’ protests somehow ...

Pointing out flaws in a nation’s religious leaders will seldom win friends. But sometimes it takes a Reformation – or in our case, a reformation – to save the Church....

I find the latest Facebook fad in Malta to be quite a happy coincidence. I’m talking about ‘planking’ of course – the ‘sport’ that has taken the Maltese corne...

Last week, in a historic and long-overdue move, the United Nations passed a resolution recognising the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people around the world...