Regulating the building industry requires the political will to act in an industry that has repeatedly opposed and defied regulation. Last week’s fatal accident at St Ignatius Junction in Sliema...

Although the authorities may have shelved the proposed Gozo tunnel project, recent remarks from the CEO of the Gozo Business Chamber - GBC resurrected the issue in a surprising manner. The state of...

Eleven years after the last change in administration, Malta has been mired in a crisis of governance. The conduct of many politicians, public officials, and government institutions was so pervasively...

If there is one area in which this administration has failed most spectacularly, it is definitely the environment. From billboards declaring that the environment would become a priority, we have seen...

In 1995, Umberto Eco published one of his masterpieces: Eternal fascism - 14 ways of looking at a Blackshirt. Eco lived through Mussolini’s dark years.  He tasted the bitterness of fascism....

We live in a time of contrasting numbers. On the one hand the coming European Parliament election will offer a snapshot of sorts of our country. On the other hand we have been offered the latest...

Even if one is not fanatically pro how the EU and its Parliament operate (which I surely am not), after having participated in the latter institution for a while, one still experiences the end of a...

Are the Maltese a people of conformists? That was the rather strange question that a friend whom I had not seen for many years during most of which he had been away, asked me. Before he left he did...

Notwithstanding the increasing numbers of incoming tourists, the tourism industry is currently in a self-destructive mode.  After the carrying capacity study published by the Malta Hotels and...

In July 2023, the Nationalist Party (PN) led the Labour Party (PL) in three regions, marking a significant shift in regional support. PN had taken the lead in Gozo by four points, enjoying a...