Everywhere is within reach in the Maltese islands: distances are relatively small. It is, in addition, an established fact, documented in the Transport master plan, that 50 per cent of private car...

“Why do you keep defending Owen Bonnici?”, Robert Abela was asked. “Because I have full trust in him,” came Abela’s curt reply. Abela sees vices as virtues and...

In future times when people will get to analyse our time they will most probably conclude that this has not been a good time for the spread of the arts in our country. There is a lack of the...

Last weekend, the Italian geopolitical review LIMES organised its 9th Geopolitics Festival, at Genoa’s majestic Doge’s Palace – the Doge was the sovereign of the now-defunct Genoese...

This week, the two tapestries, forming part of a set of twenty-nine originally commissioned by Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful returned back to Malta from Brussels. These were...

A number of uncertainties are enveloping economies at present but the suspicion is that the major uncertaint will after all end up being inflation. Frankly it is dicey whether much trust should be...

Some recent issues can help us understand challenges, opportunities and constraints faced by Malta’s environmental movement. The Ħondoq victory, led by the charismatic Paul Buttigieg,...

This year opened on a positive note when the major nuclear powers (US, Russia, China, France and the UK) declared solemnly together that “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be...

Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was one of a kind.  I have never met anyone like him throughout my life. I want to declare things upfront: I am totally biased in favour of Karmenu because I have seen...

The rules that have been introduced in the sense that high offices of the state have to be endorsed by a two thirds parliamentary vote in favour have started to deliver results. As expected, they have...