Parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of the second reading of a Bill which will introduce harsher traffic fines and penalties for a variety of road-related offences. Among the changes, which...

World Press Freedom Day was marked this week, and the importance of having a strong independent media sector has never been more evident than it is today. The role of a journalist is to seek the...

A symbolic but significant gesture took place on Workers’ Day, and it deserves much more attention than it has been given. Last Monday, Isabelle Bonnici laid a wreath at the foot of the...

This is what the government must have had in mind when Prime Minister Robert Abela made the announcement last Monday. Using a Labour Party activity to launch a government measure – it was...

St George’s Square in Valletta will take on new life as a fantasy garden as part of the Valletta Green Festival which was launched yesterday.  While this festival usually sees the square...

A court recently confirmed a verdict by the Administrative Review Tribunal that had annulled a decision by the Lands Authority to take back part of a garden that was leased to the Gzira local...

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It’s not the first time that court judgments have left us bewildered, on occasions even shocked. Maybe it’s because, for the layman, the complexities of a case brought before a...

I may not be any police officer, a member of the armed forces, a community officer, a prison warden, a security officer or any other enforcement officer, but I can lawfully arrest you if I were to...

Now and again the media obituary of some well-known person gets to me. Way back in December 1980, when I was a mere sprog, the death of John Lennon moved me more than the demise of even a close...