In the last 40 years more than 30 women have been murdered in Malta, the last one Bernice Cassar, who was shot in her face and chest a week ago as she was driving to work. Police investigators say her...

Once, a long time ago, during a deep crisis between the US and the USSR of those days, a friend of mine asked: But if instead of pursuing the option of nuclear war, or even of a non-nuclear world war,...

As the world celebrated World Fisheries’ Day earlier this week, the government announced a carefully calibrated, step-by-step consultation process, with the end-goal of creating a new Fishing...

As billions of football fans around the world watch the world cup football, few acknowledge the black cloud of scandal that engulfed FIFA’s dodgy decision to hold the world cup in...

On Monday Parliament approved at first reading stage Bill number 28, a Bill that seeks to clarify the provisions of the Criminal Code relative to therapeutic abortion. Specifically, the objects and...

When, on Tuesday morning, we began hearing about a murder that had just taken place at Corradino where a man shot and killed a woman, I am certain that many of us ran through our list of people we...

Can someone explain how a person is considered perfectly capable to fill the all important post of Chief Justice, but then, a few years down the line, that same person is deemed by the Opposition...

A political custom that has been lost over the years was that of open  debates held internally by the political parties. I remember how in the past – but this goes back almost to before I...

We are in a desperate race to counter global climate warming in time -- so we are told, not least as recently as at the COP conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. But no matter what you read or who you speak...

“The public service’s PR in general has long been dead. It might sound like a sweeping statement, but look at how the Phoneline 153 took over from the departmental...