The introduction of Islamic banking is a new measure announced in this year's budget. To my big surprise, there was no political reaction from the main political parties. I expected to hear words of...

Just before Joseph Muscat was due to deliver his reply to Simon Busuttil's devastating speech in Parliament a day earlier, during PQ time, a cabinet minister looked at some of us directly in the eye....

One week in and Malta continues to be captivated, though not in a good way, by the seemingly endless saga of the Police Minister and his Glock-carrying drivers, one of whom released at least two, and...

The Opposition will be presenting a motion of no confidence in Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia after the shooting incident involving his driver. It will not go through. The Labour government...

Leader of the Opposition Simon Busuttil has often been criticised over the last year and a half of being weak, but ironically it is Prime Minister Joseph Muscat who has turned out to be the weakling....

When I was young, attending the Government Primary School at Paola, together with the rest of the class, I was made to sing this stanza about Humpty Dumpty, Humpty Dumpty sat on a...

We all make choices, hundreds of choices each day. We choose what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, where to go, what to buy and so much more. For most of us, many of these choices are...

With a week filled to the brim with controversies and hullabaloo, I thought I would share some thoughts on an array of issues.   Charity begins where it is needed most! Another...

All that was required of this year's rendition of the annual budget speech  by the incumbent decision-making group , elected or non-elected, was  the articulation of a  set of...

As a young child and teenager, my mother grew up in the house next to what is Andrew's Bar in St. George's Bay.  Her father, an Army officer, rather bravely, located the family there during the...