The 23-storey Pender Gardens high-rise is nearly completed, after nearly 10 years of continuous construction activity. The application for the 31-storey Mercury House was approved last month and next...

Each day and every utterance from the Prime Minister is drawing our reality farther and farther away from life as we know it.  People can feel the tug and the uncomfortable sensation that nothing...

"We're going to play "A Hero's Life", an overjoyed Sigmund Mifsud told me on the phone.  "This is such a big thing for us!" Indeed it was.  A Hero's Life is, of course, Richard...

I get quite taken aback when someone asks me why the EU is not doing anything about widespread corruption in Malta. It does happen quite frequently and I sincerely feel that these things should be...

Big projects have always been an incessant temptation for Maltese governments, on both right and left. That is understandable. With such projects, one could face up to a substantial part of the...

In June 2013, Government had gone on record saying that it intended to substitute the regional local plans with three generic plans – one for Gozo and Comino, one for the whole of urban Malta...

At the moment we are enjoying the Winter Olympics, this time round being hosted by Pyeongchang in South Korea.  Very soon most of us will be following with intent, probably one of the greatest...

Last Wednesday, together with Dr Roberta Lepre and Dr Andre’ Borg, I was invited to participate in the discussion programme Iswed fuq l-Abjad on NET TV, hosted by anchor presenter Frank...

As indicated in my previous blog, President Donald Trump referred to the American camp in Guantanamo Bay in his address to the nation. He stated that this camp is going to remain open. During the...

I know, the Good Book speaks of the four horses of the Apocalypse but this time I am going to speak of just two. Two with potential devastating consequences and which we, rather slowly, are becoming...