The Nationalist Party should be eternally grateful to Francis Zammit Dimech. The St Julian’s politician has proven his unquestionable loyalty to the party over and over again, even when at...

A short press release by the Department of Information had us as its target last week. It said: "Parliamentary Secretary for Financial Services and Digital Economy Clayton Bartolo denies reports...

From bad to worse. That is the only way to describe the dire situation of the Malta Police Force at the moment, in terms of its reputation in the eyes of the public. The police are seen to be...

This newspaper has written several times about the need to reduce the size of the Maltese Parliament, the biggest there is in Europe, considering the population. With the number of people living...

A very worrying statistic emerged on Eurostat recently, regarding the pension gap in Malta and other EU Member States. The gender pension gap shows the percentage by which women’s average...

Writing about Mikiel Anton Vassalli, as Ivan Said frequently and enthusiastically admits during our daily discussions on Maltese literature and language, had always been his dream and ambition and it...

At the end of last year and beginning of this year President George Vella had been urged by many to, in view of the unprecedented emergency situation in the country, take immediate steps to dismiss...

The renovated Crafts Village will be inaugurated in the coming weeks, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri said on Indepth last week. This statement is most welcome. The Crafts Village had been...

Put simply, Human Resource Management (HRM) is the effective management of people to achieve organisational goals. The academic literature about HRM shies away from the utilitarian and instrumentalist...

Is it true that tortoises like nothing better than to fire up the barbecue in the yard, in summer? Is it true that cats enjoy singing in the shower? Do squirrels use paragliders to float from one tree...