It used to mystify me but it doesn’t anymore, as each day I come closer to understanding just a little more about human nature and the human condition. I am not going to refer to domestic...

Modern democracy is a political system that has been forged over the past 150 years. It has been an ongoing intricate puzzle built primarily on the wish that each society lives in harmony under the...

The Labour Party won the general election in a spectacular manner following a brilliantly planned and well-funded campaign. Muscat had put good governance, meritocracy and transparency at the...

The months of June and July are truly happy days to remember for the majority of us priests. These are the months in which we celebrate the anniversaries of our presbyteral ordinations. Each...

Last Tuesday, Greece was supposed to pay back more than a billion dollars in loans. But Greece had no money, so the deal struck with European creditors was not honoured. Last weekend, creditors...

In the last session of the Gvern li jisma consultation meeting at Fort St Elmo in Valletta on Thursday night, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat acknowledged that Malta has a long standing traffic problem...

Were it any Maltese man, he would not have been arrested. Were it any Maltese man, he might have been given a few choice insults, but he would most certainly not have been spat at, slapped and abused...

European leaders last week haggled until they were blue in the face over the resettlement of 40,000 refugees inundating the  coastlines of Italy and Greece, but yesterday’s report by the...

The European Union has been accused of alienating itself from the citizens of the bloc, preferring to concentrate on macro matters such as, of course, the potential of Greece exiting the...

In Malta, we often talk about the things that we see when it comes to the environment and conservation of the local ecosystem. This is, of course, natural. We complain about protected birds being...