Marie Benoît believes that we cannot stop youngsters from drinking but we must teach them responsible and moderate drinking   The question is not whether teenagers will drink....

Up till around a month ago, when the nature of my job changed, I used to make it a point of attending the Mepa board meetings week after week, Thursday after Thursday. Sometimes I would be the...

I had never been tempted to visit Dubai, even when friends came back from there waxing lyrical about its attractions, natural and man-made. The one and only occasion that I did was when an Emirates...

The saga of the Mrieħel and Townsquare towers is now entering a new phase, with the planning appeal stopwatch due to start ticking shortly – most probably towards the end of the month. It...

Joseph Muscat tries very hard to camouflage his many tools and tactics by dumping them into the cannot-fail-to-please bag – the New Middle Class.  If it wasn’t in the Taghna Lkoll...

On Saturday 6 August, the health minister, Chris Fearne, announced an “overhaul of Gozo health services” through the introduction of a permanent ambulance service, linking the Gozo...

Organising boycotts of businesses and operations to which you object is bad. Organising boycotts of anything associated with individuals to whom you object is even worse. Both smack of totalitarianism, the...

As the economy maintains its momentum, it is natural that public attention focuses more on matters that usually are relegated to second or third priority, such as environmental issues. However the...

Summer is commonly known as the silly season because it is typified by frivolous stories that hit the headlines. So I thought I would provide my own account of the summer ponderings that dominate...

It is a headache for SMEs to record workers attendance at the place of work.  It is even more frustrating to curb abuse.  To curb absenteeism a policy that clearly sets the parameters which...