In the last few days, there were two news items which interested me. The first one was the General Workers Union’s proposal expressing the need for the Maltese to start procreating again if we...

Land in Malta is the scarcest and most valuable resource. Clear limitations should exist regarding what percentage of land available is to be allocated to developent. With time, the demand for...

The welfare safety net in our country is something we should be proud of, and I suppose most of us are.  Whilst we can argue till we turn blue in the face that we need additional resources to...

The Feast of the Assumption, in common parlance, known as “Il-Festa ta’ Santa Maria” which was celebrated last Saturday is intertwined in our socio-economic, religious, historical,...

Apart from the freak weather we had – the kind of which I enjoy – the Santa Marija week this year will be remembered for the unprecedented decision taken by the government to sustain a...

The fact that the Government should not have guaranteed the ElectroGas loan is to be found in the company’s statement issued after the Opposition had lambasted the fact that Bank of Valletta is...

The controversy about the guarantees that government extended over the bank loans to cover the building of the new power station has become like the proverbial mountain out of a molehill. But not...

I had ravaging  teenage acne. Just when I had started to pluck enough courage to crawl out of my rural shell, and replace the  book dust  on my clothes with human...

The child abuse/sex crimes investigations in Britain right now are in themselves turning into a travesty of justice, with dead politicians like the Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath subjected...

I was completely unaware of the case until I was reading (still am) for reviewing purposes an account of the speeches made at what was called The President’s Forum which took place on 21 April...