With the sad passing away of Lino Bugeja at the venerable age of 86, the Cottonera has lost a true and worthy son. He was first and foremost an educator to numerous generations of students, but he was...

The Chamber of Architects has taken the Planning Authority to task on the piecemeal local plan reviews that it has been churning out, one at a time. The latest tirade was with reference to a partial...

We are all so chuffed now that we are just a hop, skip and a jump away from the culmination of all the heavily guarded projects entrusted to Konrad Mizzi, together with his Panama audit reaching their...

As Donald Trump, soon to become the leader of the free world, gave his first press conference as president-elect, Muscat became the “president” of Europe. What do these two men have in...

I couldn’t help but begin this column with what were – sadly – not the famous last words of the Speaker of the House. What were the odds that, faced with all the excitement of...

Correctly, no high expectations are being raised that on immigration, there could occur during the Maltese presidency of the EU any significant positive developments in European policy for the sector....

I was particularly struck by a couple of interesting issues that surfaced these last couple of days on the news (this country of ours never lets us down when it comes to polemics, as we all...

Ħafna minnkom iħobbuh it-tuffieħ. Tħobbuh aħdar iebes, kemm kemm qares, jew aħmar nar u aktar ħelu. Daż-żmien tħobbuh ukoll f-forma tal-kaxxa...

At a minimum, I strive to live as close as possible to the peripheries of the religion which my parents saw fit for me and my upbringing more than five decades ago.   They picked the...

I was quite surprised to learn that the Chief Justice considered he should as a top priority at the beginning of the New Year, make a strong point about the “downgrade” in the protocolar...