“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, she doesn't have what it takes. They will say, women don't have what it takes. I myself have never been...

The rumble of drums.  The clattering of feet.  The screaming, the clapping, the fervour, the passion.  The waving of flags.  The benjamini clad in colours!  No,...

Claudine Cassar, who set up and still runs one of Malta’s largest website building operations, spoke at a Microsoft seminar a few days ago about the negative messages being given to girls where...

Yesterday week was another Saturday like so many before it and undoubtedly after it: statements from the government and the Opposition like so many confetti thrown at each other. The subject this...

In the middle of a meeting this week, my phone let off a rogue ping: BBC News: Kayla Mueller, American hostage, confirmed dead by ISIS A tragedy. Many of us had been following Kayla's story;...

In December 2014, The National Audit Office published an unprecedented a report entitled, "Report by the Auditor General on the workings of Local Government". The 294 page document examines local...

Recently, the reality overseas seems to be that bloggers of whichever socio-political inclination often find themselves in court to face libel charges as the orbiting Internet planet comes under...

Today we celebrate Valentine's day.  A day for commitments, desires and love.  Political parties are hardly our dream lover but I wonder if it’s time to see if we have fallen out of...

Give a man some power and you’ll find out what he’s really like. Never mind all the sweet talk that came before. The recent court ruling in favour of two additional parliamentary seats for...

Last Tuesday, the Catholic Church in Malta celebrated the feast of St. Paul’s shipwreck in Malta. What few realize is that it only  became a national feast day in the nineteenth century. It...