It was easy to predict that Marlene Farrugia would break her ties from the Labour Party. The question was not if, but when. The way she was speaking against the government she formed part of gave...

A few weeks ago, the Romanian Prime Minister resigned with all of his government in the wake of a night club tragedy which killed more than 50 young people.  Don’t expect Prime Minister...

Leadership is not about your title, it’s about your behaviour, Robin S. Sharma, leadership expert, says. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has the title of leader, but his behaviour in not...

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...