A friend made an interesting remark: Greed has penetrated too deeply into the Maltese economy. The dictionary defines greed as an “intense and selfish desire for something”: surely money...

On 10 December 2023 we will be commemorating 75 years since representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world published the draft of the Universal Declaration...

As extensive strikes spread across Europe, mostly because inflation is creating so many problems for workers and their families, one cannot but note how strikes in this country have tailed off in...

Cicero once wrote that ‘we have no other rule capable of distinguishing between a good or a bad law, than our natural conscience and reason. These, however, enable us to separate justice from...

Malta has been humiliated by the European Court of Human Rights, again, thanks to Byron Camilleri. The Court ordered Malta not to hold unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in conditions that subject...

Greek mythology conveys a multitude of lessons which we could do well to ponder on. One of them refers to gifts that mask a hidden, and generally destructive, agenda. One such lesson results from the...

That was, if I can be permitted to say so, a scandal-mongering of a header – “There are 50,000 non-Maltese on the island”. In itself it was not much of a story – it...

What do the renovation projects which transformed the former Old Abattoir (now operating as the Valletta Design Cluster), Fort St Angelo and Fort St Elmo, the Auberge d’Italie (now operating as...

Prime Minister Robert Abela correctly highlighted how some businesses might be taking advantage of the current inflationary situation to up the prices of their products needlessly, or to increase...

The controversy surrounding the appointment of a new Ombudsman and a Standards Commissioner smells more of partisan entrenchment than constructive politics. Neither major political party should...