This week the two main central banks in Europe both decided to leave their key interest rates unchanged, in spite of accumulating evidence that both the euro area and especially the UK are seeing their economies gathering...

I am writing in response to the article written by Max Farrugia entitled “The Message of Medjugorje” (TMIS, 31 August).To begin with, I would like to say a little about who I am. I am a high school teacher ...

The Opposition spokesperson on Environment and Climate Change Leo Brincat inquired whether the Malta Environment and Planning Authority or the Malta Resources Authority were responsible in any way for putting into action Legal Notice 238 of 2006, ...

Sir Thomas More became immortal as “A Man For All Seasons”. Our Prime Minister will be remembered as “A Man For Two Seasons”. Before the general election he is the good guy heralding the Seven Years of Plenty. ...

Last month, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules. In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody – not Europe, not the United States, China, India, ...

The former Planning Authority and Environmental Protection Department operated as separate government entities between 1991 and 2003. A single organisation called MEPA subsequently emerged absorbing both entities...

The Olympics have barely ended and we have started being bombarded again with news from around the world. Whether we like it or not, events in Malta are shaped and affected by world events. ...

Let me start with a small commemoration and leave Obama for the end. Today is the 10th anniversary of that infamous election which terminated early the life of the last Labour government. ...

Whenever I want a good dose of sheer self-confident ignorance on display, I visit the comments section beneath the news stories on the on-line version of The Times....

Our country is facing the highest rate of inflation in the last 10 years, and it is no wonder 40 per cent of the Maltese people feel that inflation is the greatest challenge that our country is currently facing. ...