Three cabinet ministers – the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for Education – called a press conference post-haste yesterday and told the press...

A prison setting is no playing field.  We can call it a Correctional Facility till we turn blue in the face but the truth is that that some 560 individuals, some of whom are hardened...

In Malta many people are quick to form an opinion on a wide range of issues.   Political controversy is never short and may be considered as a national hobby.  Some issues, people take...

The mystery surrounding the building of a new university in the south of Malta is only the latest in a series of events about which the government was not truthful with the people. It says something,...

The announcement of the setting up of an American University in Malta brought the Italian word “bufala” to mind. The word “bufala”stands for an animal, similar to the buffalo...

The fall of the Libyan dynasty has been good for Labour.  It gave them an opportunity to seek new friends and rich financial support.   Baku is the capital of energy-rich Azerbaijan, a...

After a long break, we parliamentarians have finally moved to the new Parliament House. No offence meant to whoever arranged the ceremony but, I’m afraid, it lacked taste and could have been...

The opening of the new Parliament was the Speaker’s red-letter day. I will not go into the ceremony, even if, I consider the military parades out of place during such occasions. They are only...

The government has rushed through a deal in which a huge parcel of public land, in an Outside Development Zone, has been signed away to a Middle Eastern building, contracting and hotel development...

It took Joseph Muscat three weeks to fire Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia after his driver’s involvement in a shooting incident. Shooting in the direction of a human being in a car, not at...