It has happened at least twice before, so we should not really be shocked by it. It’s part of the game, so to speak. The first episode took place many years ago, under the PN administration...

There is a common thread running through a number of local land-use planning controversies: they are tending to ether ignore or give secondary importance to environmental, social and/or cultural...

The Prime Minister said a few words at the beginning of the debate on Zonqor and then left for, what to him were more important matters, including sleep. Simon Busuttil, on the other hand, gave...

In April 2015, the Malta Independent reported the verbal attack against the President of the Republic of Malta made by veteran Labour politician, Joe Grima. According to Grima, Marie Louise Coleiro...

So, after the American University of Malta turned out to be far from being American, it now turns out that neither will it be a university. We’ll probably soon get to know that it will be a...

Well, that was a bit of a come-down, wasn’t it? All that fuss and fanfare about an American University of Malta, and then it emerges in parliament last night that what we are really looking at...

A referendum has just been held in Denmark over whether the country should take part in the agreement by which EU memberstates collaborate closely on justice and security issues. Next April, a...

This time of the year is pretty much a moment for reflection.  Knowing that the calendar year is about to see its end and the fact that it is the holiday season makes it is a good moment to think...

As the festive season fast approaches, people generally have more time on their hands to spend in coffee-shops and restaurants with family and friends. The topics discussed are many, with the...

The Nationalist Party has launched its document on good governance in which it lists 103 points on how this may be achieved. Cynics may ask why are the Nationalists proposing this now and not during...