I will be extra careful today because while I will be writing on what I consider the most topical issue, I do not want to get involved in any way that may cloud judgement in the Joe Sammut...

Not since Luis Suarez helped himself to a nip of Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup have we seen such tantrums on pitch as we did with Jose’ Mourinho’s outburst at his medical...

Children love summer. They simply love to play by the sea, in the sea and on the sand. Many go to the sea loaded with bright-coloured plastic buckets, spades, castles, and of course, the inflatable...

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...