In Opposition, Labour drummed the good governance concept and made much political mileage out of the story of the honoraria paid to Ministers. Of course, this measure had to be seen in relation to the...

For only the second time in its history, the UN General Assembly convened this week to focus on international migration. It does so at a critical moment. New UN data show that the number of...

The latest EU scoreboard on competitiveness is unfortunately very discouraging as far as innovation is concerned. Despite all the lip service paid to innovation, Malta languishes at the sixth position...

The Archbishop may not have expected to be taken literally when on Independence Day he called for the setting up of ministry or a parliamentary secretary responsible for protecting the country’s...

My brief visit to Moscow last month turned out to be a cold and wet one, which did not detract from the sprawling capital where one finds the greatest cluster of millionaires and a coterie of...

Last week Gallup published a poll highlighting the broad disapproval throughout the European Union on the use of strict austerity measures to solve the economic crisis that has persisted since 2008,...

Russian Impressions is a collection of about 50 paintings by Natalia Bogdanova, a Russian artist from Moscow. The exhibition, which is open to the general public until 21 October, was inaugurated at...

The recent visit to China by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to participate in the Annual Meeting of the “Summer Davos” organized by the World Economic Forum on 11 – 13 September in the...

The case might have seemed to be innocuous, but the testimony given by two Air Malta pilots in the case instituted against an amateur astronomer was chilling. The two pilots said that when a laser...

Where may have readers seen you or your work over the years?   My main career is tailoring. I started in this industry when I was very young. In the last few years I’ve been making...