Sometime, somehow, the black dust issue might be resolved although from what the PM told the House during his concluding remarks at the tail end of the marathon budget debate we seem to be back to square one...

The high cost of living has certainly not let up since the PL organised a national conference on the matter earlier on this year...

“Moreover, the budget, once announced, cannot be amended and is practically voted for or against as presented. My question is, why debate the budget when practically nothing is changed?”...

The Opposition MP was fuming, but careful. Careful to speak to me where no one could see us, on the winding stairs of The Palace, during a morning sitting last week....

Social benefits were introduced to sustain people in need and over the years, the list of beneficiaries has grown to be more in line with the different and changing needs of society. ...

Late last Wednesday, the European financial markets had wrapped up for the day as they normally do every weekday evening. The US markets were still open, but with Thanksgiving the next...

It suddenly feels like we are gate crashing into the month of December. One minute you were swimming at Ghadira on a hot August afternoon and the next Saint Nicholas’ feast is arou...

Friends and acquaintances of the disgraced ex-Chief Justice are busy scolding others for not being ‘Christian’, for saying he should have received a harsher prison sentence (and for demanding that he should serve that sentence in an ordinary cell like oth...

So Fr Mark Montebello is in trouble again. I got my first and only poster (the main news blurb advertising newspapers outside newsagents) in the early 90s with a news item...

Radical people in Malta are just so not radical. People will only stick their head above the parapet if they have been reassured first that there is a ceasefire and their facial features are safe. So you have people acting o...