I know we are meant to gad about projecting sunbeams and streaming positivity from every orifice, but quite frankly, I don’t feel like it. That’s the sort of thing you do when you are in a...

It is a fact written in statistics that this Country is doing well on a number of fronts. Economic indicators on a multitude of areas indicate optimism and progress, namely, low unemployment...

The 2016 Budget speech delivered yesterday evening is today’s talk of the town.   This morning, representatives from the business community, trade unions and civil society are engaged...

To my surprise, this year’s budget made no reference to the upcoming Commonwealth meeting that  will be taking place in Malta in a few weeks’ time and the economic and financial...

I do not usually watch local tv stations. Each time I’ve made the effort to try I found their programmes boring, repetitive and not engaging at all, so I zap onto other channels in less than...

In total contrast to past years, this year the Malta government should not find it difficult to satisfy in its budget for 2016, obligations arising under the Stability and Growth Pact as contracted...

As revelation piles upon revelation and news report upon news report, the stories of corruption, abuse, pilfering and filching, cronies on the payroll, ‘making the most of it’ and...

I never heard such a load of rubbish as the lot I heard during the impromptu debate on traffic in our Parliament last week. I ended asking myself why the Nationalist Party requested a debate when...

Malta Developers Association president Sandro Chetcuti took a good step forward this week when he said that the government should address the issue of abandoned property. It is a small step, but...

The government’s decision to ban the cultivation of genetically modified organisms, better known as GMOs, has been warmly welcomed by local and overseas environmentalists. They have, for too...