Last Sunday, 6 September, the Department of Information published a photo and press release informing us (the general public) that the Prime Minister had a meeting at Castille, in his office, with the...

In the controversy about immigration that is now raging between membersof the European Union, nowhere do you find any mention of some overall plan regarding how to deal with the long term problem....

Like most other things in life we yield to rituals, patterns and structures and even though we might feel goaded by these rites and customs at the same time they provide us with reassurance. ...

The general xenophobia that is being expressed in Europe and Malta towards the in-coming migrants can be dated back to the eighteenth century and the start of Atheism as the new religion of the...

I write with a heavy heart.  In the serene hours of the early morning I speed-read the local and foreign news web-portals.The room is filled with the smell of the brewing coffee. Last...

It has become a common experience. An ordeal that everyone accepts to expect to go through in life. What was an exception is now the rule for every father, mother, brother or sister. Age is not much...

Should we not have at long last a clear account of where the Smart City project has gotten to? Over the years, we were told so much about it. Beautiful promises and prospects were flashed at us...

I saw the photograph of Aylan Kurdi, 3, being carried by a Turkish gendarme, in the International New York Times on Thursday morning and at first I did not realise what it signified. Was the boy...

The images and the impressions of the past days keep mounting, cancelling each other, changing by the minute, or according to where one is focusing. It seems it is only now that Europe as a whole has...

The pre-budget document for 2016 published by the Finance Ministry projects a real GDP increase of 3.2 per cent during the year 2016, yet at least half of this projected increase will be wiped out as...