700,000 people die every year because of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). By 2050, AMR will cause 10million deaths per year worldwide. 24million people will be pushed into poverty globally by 2030. The...

I welcome The Human Rights and Equality Commission Act, 2019 and the Equality Act, 2019 presented for the second reading in the Parliament of, through which Malta fulfils the Paris Principles for...

Last October, the residents of Birgu had a significant victory when a development that would have obstructed vistas from the belvedere of Birgu was revoked by the Planning Board.  Earlier in...

The chill that has spread in international commercial relations during the past three years is impacting unpleasantly on the world’s major economies. Though they have escaped recession, a sense...

The debate on local corruption is never-ending. Corruption is colour-blind and is heavily dependent upon a clientelist culture, as well as on the existence of weak or weakened institutions. In...

The Keith Schembri movie should end with his stepping down.  Why? Because the implications of his shameful retreat in Court are clear. If Mr Schembri cannot answer questions posed to him in a...

There has been a lot of ink pumped into newsprint, and a vast amount of time and space filled by the electronic media over the Archbishop’s decision, on All Souls’ Day, to go to the...

It’s kids’ play, really. Think of dot-to-dot pages for kids. You join the dots and – hey presto! – you get the full picture. Even dimwits can do it. You don’t need a PhD...

At 6.50pm on Tuesday Adrian Delia and Clyde Puli got up from their desks in Parliament and headed out. Ten minutes later, as he had announced in the afternoon, Simon Busuttil began to speak. The...

Let us rewind back again to that day on March 6, 2016 when Simon Busuttil, then leader of the Nationalist Party, during the protest meeting called to address the public on the matter of corruption...