Year in year out, at budget time and beyond, we can only confirm how our economy is increasing the volume of services it provides. The aims that used to be set in long past years for industry to be...

Please keep in mind that 'as we speak' many people are struggling with the brunt of loneliness, possibly a scourge of this era, the epoch that should have been more about networking, communication,...

I came to know Charles Zammit through my blog on the Malta Independent. He started to comment on the posts, I upload on social media. This is how we became acquainted. From the way Mr.Zammit...

    There's not enough discussion about "the poor". Indeed even the usage of that expression has become rare, almost as if we believe it sounds too religious and hardly a precise...

Her father is a drug runner and her mother was married at 15. The girl, Desiree Mariottini, just 16 years old, became a drug addict. Her home, in Cisterna in Latina, south of Rome, was...

As progressives, we tend not to look back at past achievements but instead focus on building the conditions to achieve the present and future we believe in. However, while preparing this seventh...

The 2019 Budget is conspicuous not by what it says but by what it has left unsaid. In his customary long speech, Minister Edward Scicluna opted to make no reference to the major challenges that...

Liza Minelli's song "Money makes the world go round" is the underlying theme of the Budget speech delivered by Finance Minister in Parliament last Monday. The message driven home was that money and...

Nationalist party candidate for the European Parliament election Michael Briguglio gave his opinion on the 2019 budget in his vlog. He questioned whether this year's budget gives peace of mind....

Gone are those days when we all were apprehensive of Budget Day, when the Minister for Finance used to announce price increases of commodities and other measures, which affected all, but not in a...