Last week, in Part 1, I addressed an issue which arose almost on the eve of Freedom Day: the George Cross on our flag. I referred to the point raised by Charles Xuereb in this debate, and the...

Our coast is under siege. It has been for a number of years and its commercialisation is not a recent phenomenon: this has also been going on for years. The draft Paceville Masterplan, now...

All hail to the king. Well not quite a king but a president with just some silly stuff to do, parties to attend and pictures to have taken with known and lesser known mortals. He is George Vella,...

A week ago, three people were shot at in a dark country lane used as a shortcut from Birzebbuga to Hal Far. One of the three - a 42-year-old from the Ivory Coast who had been in Malta for a number of...

Back in the period prior to 2004, when Malta joined the European Union, our industry and commerce had to face several new laws and systems to conform with EU policies, conventions and treaties. ...

This is one of those weeks when, instead of tackling one theme, I have to flit from one theme to another, ranging from stupidity to selfishness, to spiritedness. The stupidity of the pro-abortion...

Mishandling all matters relating to transport policy, the government is continuously sending conflicting signals, depending on who is listening at a particular moment. Way back in September 2017,...

Politics is the art of making the impossible seem possible. But in Malta, politics has been reduced to making all things mad and surreal. Forty years ago the Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff -...

They cannot be anything else. They are jokes, probably invented at a dull moment in Castile to liven things up, to distract the electorate from weightier issues such as transparency and governance, to...

It would well appear that Minister Konrad Mizzi has once again delivered.  This time at the offices of our national airline, Air Malta.  Having turned what was a loss of €10.8 million...