It is somewhat more than heartening to see the Opposition leader leaping to the challenge yesterday to take on the very suspicious deal that amounted to the new Delimara power station, after fresh and...

There is a new, or perhaps not so new, breed of men out there.  These men are not young carefree studs or playboys (as we used to call them).  Rather, they're older.  They...

It is a frightening thought that there a silent killer out there, practically imperceptible but which is claiming hundreds of Maltese lives every year, and the rate is rising.  And yet while we...

October is over. It is known as the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, also known as 'Pink October', and it is appropriate that not just during that month but throughout the whole year, we need...

Last week we reported the conclusions of the World Bank's annual Ease of Doing Business Survey which had just been released. The actual details were even worse than we reported. Malta, according...

One can argue until the cows come home whether or not the private lives of politicians should be open to public scrutiny. Some say that a politician renounces to private life once he takes up an...

The country’s annual budget should mean much more to us than just a yearly picture of how the government has been spending its money and how it intends to distribute its finances for the coming...

Pilatus Bank was officially shut down this week after its licence was withdrawn by the European Banking Authority.  The move came rather late in the day when considering that this particular bank...

The topic of translation will be at the heart of many events at this year's Malta Book Festival, where foreign guests as well as local authors who are engaged in translation will be attending the...

De-terminated: The Abortion Diaries is a documentary-style play centred on a series of interviews relating to abortion, that were carried out last year by the play's director and prominent journalist,...