The Christmas season has officially begun for Mdina Glass with the annual re-appearance of the glassmaker’s popular 7 metre Christmas tree and the start of the Mdina Glass Open Week...

The Business Breakfast held by our sister paper The Malta Business Weekly at the Hilton on Thursday on the subject of the sustainability of the health system proved to be a smooth broad discussion on...

It is a common belief that the annual celebration worldwide of particular issues is enough to address the real challenges surrounding them. However, concerns are never erased with a week-long...

The Paceville master plan has caused quite a stir and with good reason. It is a planning policy document that, in my view, is fundamentally flawed and therefore should be scrapped. There are eight...

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) this week highlighted the fact that journalists have faced consequences both in nations where media crackdowns are common and also in...

From the scornful safety of youth, it seemed hilarious that we might end up old. Although the eldest at home, I remember thinking in my late teens, that a cousin who was 30 had reached a grand old...

The Christmas season is about to get into full swing. With it comes a general sense of trying to take thing a little bit easier. People also tend to make an effort to forget the differences that often...

As we enter the season of contemplation and reflection, why do some nations choose to engage in corruption, even in sport? After the Panama Papers scandal and other serious allegations of...

A few days ago someone sent me the pop ballad single Hold Me for a While by the Swedish band Rednex sung by the female lead singer Whippy (Mia Löfgren). Some commentators...

Today, the Nationalist Party commemorates an event which has gone down in local political history for all the wrong reasons. A story of loss and grief on a personal level but also one of such...