Your correspondent, Henry S. Pace, was irked by my piece under the above heading (TMIS, 9 January). Whereas I focused on Dr Fenech Adami’s legacy, your correspondent countered with a paean of praise for Dr Fenech Adami....

Hello... anybody home? Calling the Malta Labour Party here... come in, do you read me? You see, I just asked your friends round the corner for their reactions to last week’s incident at the Safi barracks... but it seems there’s a judicial inquiry going on...

The publication of the Auditor General’s annual report has become a landmark for serious watchers of the Malta scene. It has been improving every year in content and presentation. The latest report – for the year 2003 – leaves no room for doubt that the ...

There are times when people say different things in or to the media and to each other....

By the time this article went to print, it was not yet clear whether an agreement had been reached between the social partners in the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development on a package of reforms announced in the budget. But it is not the outc...

Now that that Dr Fenech Adami is well entrenched in his Presidency, and his image as Prime Minister is being faded out even by the formalisation of his first name from the colloquial version by which he was politically and commonly known, it is time to d...

Improving the economic well being of the middle class is perhaps the biggest challenge facing every country in the European Union. ...

Front-page news this week. Headlines in all the morning papers screaming at us “Historic union meeting today”. At the end of this “historic” day the lead story in all radio and television news bulletins was that the unions had agreed to speak to the gover...

When I decided to leave public life, I never thought that I could still make news. I had hoped that the media would have respected my decision to live as an ordinary citizen, like the other thousands in Malta and Gozo. In your report about who applied f...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan brought together 16 eminent and experienced people to advise him on a broad framework for collective security in the world, and on the role a new and refashioned United Nations could play in ensuring...