As was done in all sectors: air travel, retail sector, etc. There are no remaining monopolies except, unbelievably, the Gozo Channel.  Dr Alfred Sant is reported to have said that EU rules...

Those so-called “PN switchers” who had voted PL for the first time in 2013 and had then switched back to the PN, influenced by all the inflated, twisted and, at times, invented stories...

The US Presidential campaign was perhaps one of the most divisive we have seen in recent history, with character-assassination attempts most of the time replacing debates of any substance. After a...

Undiscussed up till some days ago, the correspondent bank crisis is now the talk of the town. The contemporaneous visit to New York by the prime minister, the finance minister, the MFSA chairman,...

The Royal Naval Officers’ Association - Malta, held a memorial service and wreath-laying ceremony at the Kalkara Naval (Capuchins) cemetery on Armistice Day, Friday 11th November 2016. The...

Predictably the appeal made by Silvio Schembri MP in Parliament on Tuesday night did not even register with the Maltese public.  The hour was late, the papers closed, and most probably many...

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The reverberations after the American presidential election will echo and possibly overtake the reverberations after the Brexit referendum. In both cases the people have spoken. In both...

This Bogdanovic tale from Gozo has all the ingredient of a tale from Giovanni Guarreschi. Or from a Peppino skit on Mafia-land. Or more macabre tales from Latin America. On Friday Daniel...

What is being done in diverse areas of the national healthcare is very strange. Strange and mysterious. As in specific areas of the national governance, we seem to have learned first of the...