The economic and financial crisis has reached our shores. In today’s globalised world, no one is spared the pinch of the current economic turmoil. It is only realistic t...

The current economic crisis is likely to leave its footprint also on tourist arrival figures, and consequently airline load-factors. In an environment of both cost pressure and pressure to maintain Malta’s connectivity and ...

If there was any doubt that during the last several months we have been experiencing an economic downturn, these doubts were dispelled when recent statistics confirmed that we are in fact in a recession. ...

The Labour Party does not stand alone. It forms part of The Party of European Socialists (PES), and proudly so. The PES has recently formulated its guiding themes for the upcoming MEP ele...

As I tour the US promoting my new book, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, I am often asked if this isn’t the wrong time to call on affluent people to increase their effort to end poverty in other ...

During the past week Parliament discussed the motions put forward on the water and electricity bills and illegal immigration. Interesting arguments were put forward, ...

There is nothing outside sex that can produce instant pleasure more than receiving a tax refund. For some time I used to overpay my provisional tax bills for the joy of receiving a tax refund cheque at Christmas time....

A couple of weeks ago, Joseph Muscat stood up in parliament and demanded an urgent debate on immigration. Malta has a crisis on its hands, he said, and it couldn’t wait....

Any judicial system that aims to rescue offenders instead of merely exacting a measure of retribution is to be welcomed...

“Ministers have a lot of responsibility to carry including giving the go-ahead and authority to screen. Any dilly-dallying along the way can cause loss of lives”...