Last Thursday, the Mepa Board finally decided to approve the Freeport Terminal's application to install four cranes with 140-metre high jibs at the terminal. This decision was taken after the Board,...

Man may just be within reach of establishing a foothold on Mars and has connected the whole of humanity via the electronic phenomena with ever so minute gadgetry, but it still is a strange old world...

At this point in time the Labour Party in government has fallen way behind public opinion and continue to justify its vindictive and awkward remarks as scores to notch up on its belt.  Maybe they...

It pays to be in Parliament during crucial sittings. Listening to it over the radio or watching it on TV ends up cutting out significant details. While taking votes for and against the...

In one of those rare instances in local politics, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat gave a positive reply to the PN’s document on Good Governance and immediately stated that he is ready to start...

Right now, the talk of the town is not quite what the government wishes it to be - how the cheap and tacky Simon Busuttil has been cheating on expenses and “stealing fuel”. It was a...

Economic growth in Malta has been maintained. The fact that this year it will be in the ballpark of 5 per cent opens up new opportunities. In the past, it was when the economy was growing at...

I suppose December is best known as ‘the month of volunteering’.   Through a number of fund raising events organised during this last part of the year we are invited to remember...

Surfing the different local news web portals last Sunday, the most striking item reported was the launch of another working document by the PN ‘Restoring Trust in Politics’. This is...

Each year, on 8th December, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Immaculate Conception; an extremely important cult but not without its controversies. The history of this cult is the...