The government has made a step backwards by announcing that it will remove the secrecy clause in the Citizenship Act that was approved in Parliament last Tuesday.   But this is not...

Readers surely remember the famous Mastercard ad, which begins with a series of priceless worthwhile experiences, then adds, ‘for all the rest there’s Mastercard’.   Over...

The surprise announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister on Friday night that the government will remove the highly controversial confidentiality clause from the Individual Investment Programme is a...

Bit by bit, we are losing our national virtue. It is incumbent on the government to always keep the moral high ground if it wants to really maintain its authority. There is a natural rhythm to...

Very much like the legendary Scarlet Pimpernel, in his reaction to the excellent Labour Budget for 2014 Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil kept trying to play hide and seek with his bemused listeners on...

Having failed to find a subject that could amuse you, I am back to the citizenship issue. Still trying to fathom who our new ‘compatriots’ would be, I googled “Malta Individual...

Prior to B-Day, a source from the Finance Ministry told the press that this would be an “election budget”. The description is not new, but for it to come from a government source certainly...

I have nothing in principle against the citizenship scheme. I have reservations about some of the details, which I hope the government will fine-tune in an effort to gain better acceptance by the...

The Labour Party’s resounding victory with a majority of 36,000 votes in the last election weighs heavily on the same government’s responsibility to administer and change according to its...

The Opposition, and particularly its leader, has not yet learned that to be very competitive in the global economy, one has to offer something that your competitors might not as yet...