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...

The budget speech delivered yesterday evening by Prof Edward Scicluna, Minister for Finance is extensively covered this morning in the printed newspapers. All carry detailed reports, tables, figures,...

Faith is taking the first step, even when you do not see the whole staircase - Martin Luther King Jr. That is exactly what we do when we vote in a new government, or oust an old one. We are...

Being budget week I suppose it's more than legitimate to bring up the 'give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar' argument, especially when focusing on the social constituent of the government's plan for...

Understandably, we all tend to look at the annual budget speech from our personal perspective: whether we will be better-off or worse-off after it, what we will pay in taxes, direct or indirect, what...

The newspaper coverage of whether the report lodged against Silvio Scerri, for conspiracy to murder the man for whom the mother of his children left him, is true or false tends to miss the essential...

Last week I read with interest Roselyn Borg's commentary on Facebook. Besides being a friend, Roselyn is also one of the brave new candidates for the Nationalist Party. Her commentary started off...

Where do you draw the line between the arguments of core and periphery eurozone countries about how best to restore the economy to normal growth and avoid the dangers of a lost decade and a perilous...

Echoes of the ton-ta’ zejt budgets of the 80’s are around us.  The trumpets are sounding and the carpet is being rolled out for the big announcements as people tune in to hear about...