Almost five years ago, Labour celebrated an emphatic election victory and promptly reminded Gozitans of where they stood in the national hierarchy. They stood in queues at Mġarr and at...

In Davos, last Tuesday, at the World Economic Forum, Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke of the developing rupture in the global order. It is a clear discourse underlining the need for a...

Collective bargaining can be described as the negotiations carried out between a trade union and an employer to improve working conditions of a group of employees. This takes place at the enterprise...

Automatic enrolment (AE) is to be introduced to increase retirement savings in Malta.  The logic is simple: make saving the default, make participation easy, and over time help each worker build...

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, once said of that horrific state-sponsored genocide that, "to forget the victims means to kill them a second time." Wiesel's words...

It is only because we resolutely limit our horizons to what we can see with the naked eye that we fail to see that our small island is after all part of the bigger world. All our media limits its...

Last Saturday's Malta Eurovision Song Contest was remarkable in many ways. Congratulations to this year's winner, Aidan, who gave an excellent performance. I am sure that Aidan will do Malta proud at...

These last days, practically all the major European media focused on just one issue - how despite its economic might, Europe remains after all hugely dependent on the US. For its security, for its...

In the high-definition show business of politics, as in everything else, looks matter. These days, we are constantly checking out the person behind the platform to see how well they live up to the...

Malta's traffic problem has many causes, but confusion between causes and effects does not rank among the more forgivable ones. Yet this is precisely where Transport Malta Minister Chris Bonett has...