The budget presented this week is one that empowers people.  It focuses on fiscal and budgetary consolidation that boosts confidence in our economy, which in turn spearheads stronger...

Directed by Marc Cabourdin and starring Nadia Vella, Tina Rizzo, Simone Alamango and Sarah Jane Mallia, TAC Theatre’s production of Innocent Flesh is set to hit the stage of the Vault Theatre at...

Maltese photographer Matthew Farrugia has recently placed third in the ‘Wreck – Underwater Photography’ category with his entry ‘Tug 2’ at the Eilat Red Sea...

The famous Neapolitan folksinger Teresa De Sio and her quartet will be live in concert on Saturday, 9 November at 9pm at Sir Temi Zammit Hall, University of Malta Main Campus.   The...

Day of German Unity reception   There’s a new German ambassador in town, Klaus-Peter Brandes. Together with his wife Ulla, His Excellency circulated and met as many as possible of the...

The clock at home has just struck twelve, letting us know that Sunday has now turned into Monday - Budget Day. At this hour the Budget speech is ready and is securely under wraps in the briefcase of...

Obviously, as happens every year, immediately after the budget, we are bombarded with comments and information as government and Opposition battle it out for the best sound-bites and...

The government aims to close 2013 with a deficit of 2.7% of Gross Domestic Product and intends to get this figure down to 2.1% by the end of 2014.   Today is, of course, budget day. It is a...

Astrid Vella’s moan-machine is grinding up again as the government begins to relax controls on construction of major projects in rural areas and village and town cores. What can I say?...

If people are going to be arrested on the flimsy suspicion that they took photos of two government communications officers in the airport’s departure lounge, then I wonder where we’re...