Labour’s first hundred years of life which the party is celebrating this year should be an occasion for all those who believe in its ideals to reflect about them and about how they matter as of...

During my working life, I have had the responsibility for purchasing services with public funds. Beyond the imperative details of national and European legislation setting the rules for that, the main...

In 2015, the Government entered into a privatepublic partnership with VGH, a shell company, awarding it a concession to run three hospitals. This was made for an initial 30 years, potentially 99...

In investigations concerning the conduct of public affairs, nothing irritates me more than the way by which information about such conduct is spun into a soap opera. As this process continues, the...

True or not, part or not of a political scheme involving a particular section of the media and whatever the outcome – or not – by the time this piece appears, the recent spate of...

This has been one of those weeks which former UK Labour leader Harold Wilson had in mind when he emphasised that a week is a long time in politics.  Two specific actions stick out. The first is...

At the time of writing the Attorney General still sits grandiloquently on his seat of power. No one has dared try to dethrone him.  But hold on. In a world where sense prevails wouldn’t we...

For those of us from Hamrun, the unprovoked and savage attack on an elderly woman in broad daylight in the central part of High Street was a deep shock especially when we later came to know the victim...

It is now becoming uncomfortably obvious that the governing political regime in Malta is a product of underhand, benign and not so benign illicit dealings and run on a pattern of intimidation and...

The decision to re-open childcare centres and SkolaSajf was a correct, positive and vital one.  Through the re-opening of those institutions, children’s routines were put back in place, and...