With the next budget for the year 2024, a big statutory increase in the wages of workers and employees will be implemented. Quite likely, by way of magnitude, it will be unprecedented. For the...

A problem encountered each time I think of the next subject about which to write for this newspaper is the embarrassment of choice – which tragicomedy to select and write upon for the...

In November 2022, Minister Clyde Caruana told parliament that Malta would fork out 11 million euro on film incentives.  In the first part of 2023, Clayton Bartolo already squandered €69...

The summer months were hell for Xemxija residents. They had to bear continuous excavation works at the former Mistra Village site, notwithstanding that during the summer months such works ought to...

Now everything’s turned mellifluous, saccharine even. All is well and all will be well.  Malta, in preparation for the European election, has turned into a Potemkin village. The name...

The highly anticipated program for Notte Bianca 2023 was unveiled this week. Notte Bianca is, of course, an annual cultural spectacle set to light up the Maltese capital,...

To give one greater hope and faith in the future of one’s country, there is nothing better than the fact that on the national scene, “new” young people are emerging who are taking...

The term ‘Blue Economy’ has become one of the policy buzzwords of our times. It was introduced during the Rio+20 United Nations conference in 2012 and was later adopted by various...

A question posed recently by a journalist was, I thought, extremely intriguing: Have the Maltese fallen out of love with the EU? she asked. Eurobarometer, the public opinion poll which regularly...

The purpose of this book review is twofold: to briefly introduce to the reader the author of this volume, together with his juristic contribution. In this case, the author is Judge Dr Silvio Meli,...