Looking back at the past twelve months, my immediate thought is that we have managed to accomplish a packed agenda. The result of a group of people working as a team and with the common good in mind....

Reading between the lines of the Council of Europe Venice Commission's opinion on Malta, one basic preoccupation sticks out: is Malta a parliamentary democracy? Perusal of the opinion, released...

I was struck, this past week, by an opinion piece I came across on the online newspaper EUobserver following the publication of the Venice Commission's report on Malta. Although access was initially...

The growth rate for the third quarter of the year has been lower than the one projected. This is putting at risk financial targets set by the European Commission for member states of the...

The Maltese people are generous when it comes to charity, that was my very first impression of them when I landed on this island some 20 years ago and I still have the same impression today. Time...

The planning application to convert two old town houses in Saqqajja, Rabat into a boutique hotel is another attempt to mutilate our historical heritage. The row of town houses at Saqqajja, rather than...

I spent most of the past week in Parliament - the British one. It so happened that before I ever entered the Maltese Parliament, I attended a sitting in the House of Commons, when John Major was...

The EU Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy was adopted in January. The strategy addresses the challenges posed by the use of plastics throughout their life cycle: that is, from the initial...

Safe City Malta, part of the government's public-private partnership arm Projects Malta, is planning to deploy high-definition CCTV cameras with facial recognition software. It is claimed that these...

Xarabank host Peppi Azzopardi has said that he could have easily left out Liam Debono from the show, only inviting police officer Simon Schembri, thus pleasing his audience, but he felt that he had a...