Malta's adult children must be attached to their parents more than any other nation in the world. If you believe Robert Abela, 90% of Maltese young adults own a property. Yet they're so fond of their...

For many families, "assessment" has become almost interchangeable with "exams". A paper is set, an exam is sat, a grade is issued, and that single number often becomes the main story told about a...

Justin Haber, Malta's former national goalkeeper, was given air-time on Ricky Caruana's podcast following his conviction as a sex offender and his listing in the sex offender's register.  Haber...

Almost five years ago, Labour celebrated an emphatic election victory and promptly reminded Gozitans of where they stood in the national hierarchy. They stood in queues at Mġarr and at...

In Davos, last Tuesday, at the World Economic Forum, Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke of the developing rupture in the global order. It is a clear discourse underlining the need for a...

Collective bargaining can be described as the negotiations carried out between a trade union and an employer to improve working conditions of a group of employees. This takes place at the enterprise...

Automatic enrolment (AE) is to be introduced to increase retirement savings in Malta.  The logic is simple: make saving the default, make participation easy, and over time help each worker build...

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, once said of that horrific state-sponsored genocide that, "to forget the victims means to kill them a second time." Wiesel's words...

It is only because we resolutely limit our horizons to what we can see with the naked eye that we fail to see that our small island is after all part of the bigger world. All our media limits its...

Last Saturday's Malta Eurovision Song Contest was remarkable in many ways. Congratulations to this year's winner, Aidan, who gave an excellent performance. I am sure that Aidan will do Malta proud at...