I have never been one to play the economist and claim I have seen through a finance minister's ploy. As a journalist, I have always been more interested in trying to gauge and redefine the everyday...

I'm writing this less than 24 hours after Minister Manuel Mallia's driver was involved in what looks like (at least for now) a messed-up squabble full of impulsive reactions on the part of probably...

As a young child and teenager, my mother grew up in the house next to what is Andrew's Bar in St. George's Bay.  Her father, an Army officer, rather bravely, located the family there during the...

Any feel-good factor that the government intended to create with an election-type of budget it presented on Monday has already evaporated. It has been an extremely bad week for the...

It was an epic budget, as long as all the world's classics put together, and with a bit of each. Those who survived kept shifting positions and twisting their bodies to pinch themselves into remaining...

Or so he said on a tour of the Playmobil toy factory yesterday. So that's all right then - as long as he is prepared to take the insults and criticism that come his way for failing so badly in his...

One criticism that is being levelled against this budget from within the Labour structures is the lack of social vision. To borrow an expression used by late Prime Minister Dom Mintoff against Alfred...

Monday's budget was largely (and I stress "largely") unimpressive and did not take the country forward. I was tempted to say that it was a farce when I was hosted on One TV on Monday night - and night...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was right when he said, during his post-budget press conference, that in the past such financial exercises used to be stingy in the first two or three years of the...