Jurisdictions under increased monitoring are actively working with the FATF to address strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation...

The Financial Action Task Force’s decision to place Malta under monitoring was very unjust and very undeserved.  It was unjust and undeserved because as recently as last May we...

They remind me of Rip van Winkle, the character created by American author Washington Irving, who dropped into a long sleep that lasted years while walking through a forest. On waking up and going...

The recent Transparency International survey on attitudes to corruption has produced findings which deserve engagement. The survey, which was held across the EU, shows that public perceptions...

When I took my first plunge in politics 3 years ago I considered many aspects of the system to be archaic and inefficient. I looked with some suspicion to the old methods of electioneering like...

A reform that will remove solitary confinement is long over-due. This has been an issue that has been disturbing me for quite some time now. Solitary confinement, from where I stand, is a breach of...

When one tries to understand what the really fundamental changes were worldwide and in this country, the conclusion is likely to be that such changes did not follow from the decline of colonial...

Let’s take stock of the situation. As everybody can see for themselves, Malta is no longer charming. There’s a sizeable minority of citizens that’s dying for the modernisation, the...

Reading through the Green Paper entitled “Towards Cleaner Vehicles on Our Roads” it is evident that this consultation process is flawed. After being four years in the making, instead of...

In three years' time we will be celebrating 60 years from our independence. We will also be celebrating 60 years of our national deception, which coming developments might reveal in all its...