“First you defended Rosianne Cutajar, now she’s gone. What changed?”, Robert Abela was asked. “It was a consistent message”, he replied, “my position in her regard...

Earlier this week I was called by the Auditor General to his office in order to discuss the request for an investigation which I had submitted to his office some 15 days ago on behalf of ADPD. My...

On most days these Easter holidays, the rumble of planes taking off from the nearby airport is a constant during the day. And that’s not counting the landings. After the dreadful silence of...

The change that Parliamentary Secretary Alison Zerafa Civelli and myself, with the help of the main stakeholders in the world of Local Government, managed to bring about and achieve in the field of...

I am one who was trained as a former diplomat in a doctrine that I still think of as “Gaullist” for it was most proclaimed by France’s General de Gaulle: that states should not...

Non-governmental voluntary environmental organization Birdlife has, in the beginning of this month, applied for the issue of a warrant of prohibitory injunction against the government so that the...

With the onset of the Covid pandemic, travel in Europe collapsed. When the pandemic eased, travel exploded in volume. People apparently wanted to compensate for the months during which they had been...

It is within the absolute discretion of government to determine termination and other benefits and privileges for persons in public office that are not prescribed by law.  First, it is Cabinet...

Much has been said and written about Bill 49 that seeks to increase pre-trial arrest from 48 to a total of 96 hours with possibly another 24 hours added  for offences carrying 12 or more years of...

One might be forgiven to think otherwise, but Politics is not a soap opera. Even if the big-leaguers in the local political pond seem to think that they need bread and circuses to keep afloat. It is a...