The results of the local council elections held last Saturday were not a surprise. It was predictable that the Nationalist Party would have lost support to the advantage of the Malta Labour Party....

That is the question! Well-known, respected men in the field of economics are today saying directly and in-between the lines that a ‘one-off’ devaluation should be on the books to turn round the absence of foreign direct investment....

The letter by Martin Debono (TMID, 4 March) about the fact that his son had to pay another Lm2.50 above the Lm20 fee for the renewal of his motor licence, is not news to me, because on 16 October 2004....

Good woman, Daphne, you really tell it like it is (TMID, 10 March)....

Reference is made to Odds and Ends regarding works in St George’s road, St Julian’s (TMID, 7 March). ...

Turkish riot police chased, hit and beat with truncheons a gathering of demonstrators in Istanbul last Sunday. ...

Something must be afoot. Either there’s some kind of election on – a likely hypothesis, seeing as there seems to be an election every 15 minutes in this country...

The one thing, which all Nationalists and Labour supporters agreed on before the local council elections results were announced, was that the government would suffer heavy losses....

During the last few weeks, a closer examination of the discussion document presented by the MLP – with an introduction by the leader of the opposition – has portrayed how the next Labour government could tackle the deficit problem....

Funny how the petition raised by journalists and other media persons, calling for access to detention centres for irregular immigrants and asylum seekers, has been sucked into a black hole. ...