In May 2023, inclusion minister Julia Farrugia Portelli was behind the introduction of a register for people guilty of abusing disabled people. The result is that all care homes will have to check if...

It was by a happy coincidence that a few weeks back opened for me, a commentator, not an investor, the brave new world of crypto currency. Since then, I've come to know that a growing number of...

There was a time in Malta when Governments considered culture and the arts to be an afterthought or a political appendix to something else. There were many reasons for this lack of...

It is mystifyng how over all these years, we remain without an administrative method by which road works are carried out according to a well regulated plan that ensures they are completed in a...

Measures have been announced to help reduce the volume of car traffic on our roads. The question arises: how successful are they being? Likely, there is need for an objective review of their...

Do you know Matthew Maggi? Probably not. He's not a public figure. He's a private citizen working in the film industry. Yet Minister Owen Bonnici  used his position of power to harass and...

The Gozo Business Chamber's recent call for regional autonomy enshrined in Malta's constitution has reignited a long-standing debate about Gozo's governance. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the...

We are told that we need to convince today's child-bearing generation to have children, at least three of them, instead of adopting cats and dogs. While it may come across as patronising to impose...

How embarrassing it must be for our new Minister for Film to be lumped with a Film Commissioner who is a walking, flashing, unpredictable box of tricks, which sadly, it appears, neither he can rein in...

Last Sunday, Robert Abela, at Kordin, bid farewell to accountability and good governance. This has been coming for a long time, but now it has reached the point of no return. It was an arrogant Robert...