I write with a heavy heart.  In the serene hours of the early morning I speed-read the local and foreign news web-portals.The room is filled with the smell of the brewing coffee. Last...

It has become a common experience. An ordeal that everyone accepts to expect to go through in life. What was an exception is now the rule for every father, mother, brother or sister. Age is not much...

Should we not have at long last a clear account of where the Smart City project has gotten to? Over the years, we were told so much about it. Beautiful promises and prospects were flashed at us...

I saw the photograph of Aylan Kurdi, 3, being carried by a Turkish gendarme, in the International New York Times on Thursday morning and at first I did not realise what it signified. Was the boy...

The images and the impressions of the past days keep mounting, cancelling each other, changing by the minute, or according to where one is focusing. It seems it is only now that Europe as a whole has...

The pre-budget document for 2016 published by the Finance Ministry projects a real GDP increase of 3.2 per cent during the year 2016, yet at least half of this projected increase will be wiped out as...

There is a growing tendency amongst the Maltese to throw money at every cause and charity they can think of.  Generosity and solidarity are, of course, a good thing.  But when they are used...

The fact that the Government decided to split the American University Campus into two - one at Cospicuaand another at Marsascala - makes partial sense. I am using the adjective “partial”as...

One of the earliest signs of a society’s compliance with creeping authoritarianism is when a government favours or directly encourages a campaign aimed at destroying the dignity and reputation...

The Economy Minister threw a press conference – we’re talking about somebody who parties relentlessly, so ‘throw’ seems like the appropriate verb to use, even though there were...