A large Caravaggio exhibition was being organised by Heritage Malta. The comment refers to Jason Micallef, MLP General Secretary, reportedly saying that a Labour Government would be for Labourites only. [30-9-2007]

Several futile attempts (and, finally, one successful one) were made by the cartoonist to contact Melita Cable about a billing problem. [23-9-2007]

Demolition of, at times new, houses in the middle of fully inhabited areas, to be replaced by multistorey blocks of flats is rampant in Malta. [16-9-2007]

Anybody who has boarded a bus in Malta needs no explanation for this strip. [9-9-2007]

The open air market in Valletta is a hotbed for pirated dvd's and cd's. Everybody knows. Even the police. Sometimes. [2-9-2007]

Labour leader Dr. Alfred Sant tries to give the impression in his speeches that Labour has a solution for all of Malta's ills. [26-8-2007]

A number of letters in the press bemoan expensive items stolen from their luggage presumably after check-in. [19-8-2007]

Clowns employed to liven up the streets of Valletta are arrested and accused of being a public nuisance by the police. In the meantime, young men who aided and abetted a convicted rapist are given a suspended sentence. [12-8-2007]

A general call for the resignation of a Minister is ignored, and the Minister supported in public by the Prime Minister. [5-8-2007]

The Labour Party's radio station paints a gloomy picture of all that happens in Malta.

Minister Zammit Dimech announces yet another White Night in Valletta. In the meantime, there is a spate of black-outs throughout the island.

A Labour MP suggests there should be buses that are only for immigrants and others only for Maltese.

A spate of corruption is discovered, and, it seems, getting a Presidential Pardon for convicted misdemeanors is not that difficult.

Poor salary conditions results in a shortage of pilots with the National Airline.

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority publicly boycotts those who criticised it about a controversial decision.

Ex-Nationalist Minister Josie Muscat announces a new party that hints at being far-right.

Bureaucracy and the civil servant.

Labour leader Alfred Sant changes his tune about the Euro.

MLP deputy leader Michael Falzon, who had a public outburst about being victimised by his party, is supported by ex-deputy leder George Abela.

MLP deputy leader Michael Falzon is reported to have had a public outburst about being victimised by his party.

An argument ensues between PBS board of directors and Editorial Board about a programme short-list. The "waist" paper basket dig refers to a Labour appointed, ex-National Broadcasting head, who, in the late seventies, had referred to his "waist" paper basket as being were he submits letters sent by those he disagreed with.

Crime continues to rise.

The Nationalist Party is in the doldrums, and the indications are that the Labour Party will win elections not through actual work, but by default.

PBS announce a Lm10,000 rebranding exercise. There seems to be a general feeling that the new logo is not brilliant.

The controversy about spring hunting, unwanted by the EU, but permitted by the Maltese Government, hots up.

Sliema will soon be Malta's high rise ghetto.

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi continues to deny that his party is in crisis with the electorate.

The vote-grabbing permission of spring hunting seems to have lost the government a lot of votes by the majority of Maltese who are NOT hunters.

Labour leader Alfred Sant is accused of contributing little to national debates.

Environment Minister George Pullicino, who spearheaded the allowance of spring hunting.

A forum on the hunting association's website has suggestions that hunters with guns can do what they want.

A controversy erupts in the letters pages as to whether a female chairman should be called chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson.

The political petty-mindedness of the man in the street.

Malta's expensive touristic branding exercise falls foul of international bad press about rampant bird killing on the island.

A hotel sold by Air Malta to a private developer demands that those workers kept on help with the refurbishing.

Crime continues to rise.

The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition spar with statistics.

The side-effect of Christmas cheer.

Awareness of how racist the Maltese really are continues to shock.

NOT a cheerful Christmas.

Christmas as consumeristic hell.

A bus driver is convicted of dangerous driving.

Hunters threaten public action against reduced hunting days.

A number of people have been killed, and others have had their houses cave in because of demolition work next door by irresponsible contractors.

The Prime Minister asks children in a school to design an official Christmas card for him.

A scandal leaks out of MLP headquarters about an official trip to Dubai being used by developers who accompanied the delegates.

Demolition of houses to make way for multi-storey apartment blocks continues all over the island, causing havoc.

EVERYBODY's talking about the 2007 Budget.

A temporary roundabout at a busy artery in Attard causes traffic chaos.

Prime Minister Laurence Gonzi hopes for a reprieve from slipping polls for his party.

The Middle Class are the perennial taxed in most Nationalist Party Budgets.

The Government is embarrassed by overestimating incoming tourist numbers.