The Ħamruniżi crave this week, I am no exception. The Ħamruniżi are truly well and ready to celebrate the feast of San Gejtanu, reaching the climax in the coming weekend, in...

The European Commission has proposed that Spain and Portugal should not pay a fine for having failed to honour the obligations they entered into to keep their budget deficits in line with the criteria...

It’s a little hard to believe that this island is still having to contend with the erratic behaviour and warped, egocentric tantrums of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Franco Debono, both of whom...

A month and more has passed. The world has moved on. There have been brutal terrorist attacks in Nice and other places. The much promised collapse of the British economy has not happened and...

Joseph Muscat’s declaration that the Freeport Terminal will not be permitted to expand in the direction of Birżebbuġa due to its impact on the residential community will inevitably...

Earlier this week a lone voice was heard in the American Democratic Convention reminding people of the more rational and less populist political view.   First Lady Michelle Obama delivered...

There is not much to celebrate in Europe at the moment. Europe is sinking fast. As often happens in Malta, the media only reports those aspects of news that politicians want to hear while ignoring the...

The music was great. The singers were brilliant. The songs were varied and aimed for different tastes. But it was an emotionless crowd that attended the Joseph Calleja concert on...

This week, the proverbial glass ceiling has been cracked thanks to the historical nomination, by the Democratic Party, of Hillary Clinton as the first woman candidate in the Presidential race to the...

Two 17-year-old boys, one Hungarian and the other German, have died in accidents while on holiday in Malta and the internet is full of wise owls and know-it-alls saying that ‘something must be...