These are interesting times in which we are living here in Malta. In terms of civil rights, the country is being propelled into the 21st century and it is quickly making up for lost time. And just...

The result of Sunday’s referendum in Italy is so crucial it just leaves no time to analyse the result, not even to speculate on what will happen – election?  The banking system in...

In recent days there has been an eruption of verbal language battles between the supporters of the Maltese language.  This paper, and others, have been involuntary bystanders in this war. It...

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...

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It was funny wasn’t it, in male dominated media Malta, to read that Sina Bugeja, of anti-Yorkie chocolate “its not for girls” fame, is ticking off The Times for referring to women in certain positions as chairmen rather than chairpersons?...