The duty of an Opposition is to monitor the government of the day in order to ensure, among other aims, that governance of the country is conducted on the right lines. It does this by provoking...

Finally, there is a judge with guts who has no qualms in calling a spade a spade. Judge Michael Mallia’s report breaks the covert alliance that was, until recently, in existence between a...

Labour MP Marlene Farrugia’s criticism of Education Minister Evarist Bartolo, for not doing the necessary and getting rid of Employment & Training Corporation CEO Philip Rizzo, has really...

Beyond our little world of festi and scandals, the tectonic plates are moving and we are caught in the middle. We are being squeezed by two movements, both deriving from poverty and we, despite...

It is a well known fact that the underworld on the Italian peninsula controls vast stretches of the Italian economy. Some readers will remember the underworld’s waste-management activity...

Many, who like me, have grown up working in the media since their teenage years, will tell you that things have changed. For the better technically, professionally, academically and possibly...

The cryptic replies given by Peter Paul Zammit to the media, on interview of his role as Head of Security for International Events, sounds like a kindergarten ditty and could not be any more out of...

I’m old enough now to know that life’s lessons can come from the unlikeliest sources. Still, I never expected that I would end up thinking hard about Malta when I came up close to the...

In my previous article, I cautioned the Opposition from taking political stands, which may be termed “ad personam” or “against an individual”. I insisted that it is political...

When I heard that the Foreign Minister has been taken ill with heart problems after his long-haul flight to China this week, which was followed immediately by meetings, I was not surprised. That's a...