I was watching one of the latest animated movies with my daughter the other day. The main character lives on this perfect island in French Polynesia. The thought of being one with nature, living a...

What meaning does it still have – to be in the public service? Put a bracket around politics, which in its best mode, also forms part of the public service. But there are those who without...

Once again last week, we had two important events on the international scene. The first was Putin’s electoral victory. The second was Xi Jinping’s speech at the end of the National...

It was the week when the Passion Week symbolism caught up with Malta’s present with a vengeance. The culprit, of course, was Pilate, or rather Pilatus – better known for washing his hands...

The Pilatus Bank saga has the potential to develop into much more than damage to the country's reputation. Earlier this week it was revealed that Pilatus chairman Ali Sadr Hasheminejad was, as result...

As the pieces of shrapnel continue to whizz past our ears from the on-going Facebook bombshell involving a shady British firm, Cambridge Analytica, that has mined private information from no less than...

The first curtain has come down on the infamous Pilatus Bank.  Chairman, Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, is now under arrest in the USA on charges of money laundering and other related infringements to...

In his weekly Vlog on the Malta Independent, MEP Francis Zammit Dimech speaks about the arrest of Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, the chairman of Malta-registered Pilatus Bank. Zammit Dimech said that it...

Freedom is not an easy word. It is hard to obtain freedom, and an even harder quest to manage it. With freedom come huge rights and huge responsibilities.  But as big as the challenges...

This is how the Prime Minister called those who aired their views soon after the unfortunate death of a young lad in Paceville. It is exactly how most leavers were labelled by some remainers ahead of...