A friend showed me a list of wellknown cases that had reached the courts and stalled there. It’s quite a long one. It covered cases flagged by scandal about corruption, abuse of power, fraud or...

Can we say that people in Malta are reconciling work with family life? A recent publication by the National Statistics Office (NSO) provides important data on the matter, using 2018 as the year under...

Last February the Planning Authority [PA] scheduled the late 19th century townhouse on Triq il-Karmnu in St Julian’s (that for many years also served as the residence of Malta’s former...

The tax on financial services, labelled the financial transactions tax (FTT), has been back in the news as a tax the EU could charge in order to secure a new source of revenues. These it needs to...

Living on a small island probably causes genetic loss. Particularly in the eyesight. Some people stop seeing things rationally, and get engulfed in an emotional vision of the world. There are many...

The civil war within the PN has no end in sight. This does not only inflict considerable damage on the PN: at the end of the day it damages the whole country. The two instances of a vote of no...

If we do make it through the Moneyval test, we will have done it by the skin of our teeth, seems to be how most positive commentators reason. In the words of some sage Maltese politician,...

Looking back on these traumatic days, we can see the dramatic decline of Adrian Delia from Leader of the Opposition to 'kap sfiducjat'. All through last weekend the President of the Republic sent...

Most hostage-taking situations are a consequence of insecurity, retribution or for ransom.  A hostage is a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an...

Learning should be a lifelong journey for everyone, no matter the age and social background. We all need to acquire skills that are relevant to our lives, our needs and our work. As a government...