Why can’t a pub behave more like a pub?   The British know how it’s done. Pubs all over Britain offer you a laid-back atmosphere with a nice crowd of all ages, excellent lunches...

I have lost count of the write-ups and letters – some of them verging on panic and hysteria – published in local newspapers on the need to ‘protect’ the Catholic...

Malta’s Police Corps is still struggling to recover from scandal after scandal that has rocked it to the core this last year or so. From allegations of corruptions to mass retirements and...

Yesterday and the previous day, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank held its regular meeting in Malta, the first time ever this has happened. It is a tradition with ECB that its...

‘Bitter’ and ‘bluff’ was how the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader respectively labelled each others’ budget reaction speeches.  The two political leaders...

Today is Back to the Future Day. It is 26 years since the cult classic Back to the Future movie II movie was released in 1989. Marty and Doc used their time travelling car to go into the future, a...

It would seem that for us Maltese, at any rate, the migrants crisis is over, gone, forgotten, put on the back burner. It is, of course, nothing of the sort. Every day, something like 7,000...

Malta is poised to venture on the international stage in a big time. We may count the Middle Sea Race as the curtain-raiser, if we like. The race has become one of the classic sailing races in...

The aftermath of Budget 2016 as unveiled last Monday lacked in one significant factor, a factor that has characterised most Maltese government budgets in recent memory: the hype factor. In a...

The government’s annual Budget is primarily an accounting exercise regarding the management of the country’s financial situation. For the third year running we have measures reducing costs...