ONE FAMILY comes to the end of its run after nearly sixteen years of publication.  [19-10-2008]

It was proved by a leading environmentalist that the eco-reduction given for the consumption of very few units of electricity is totally unrealistic.  [12-10-2008]

Dr Austin Gatt's insistence on introducing sky-high tariffs for water and electricity are met by universal disappointment.  [5-10-2008]

According to reports by anti-hunting lobbies protected birds where being shot rampantly.  [28-9-2008]

Questions are raised by the public about whether the new biometric passports and e-id cards would cause a risk of identity theft .  [21-9-2008]

The discussion on divorce is a raging battle of catastophic proportions, with both sides dogmatically sticking to their guns.  [14-9-2008]

Food prices continue to rise.  [7-9-2008]

The problem with a very dirty Malta remains acute.  [31-8-2008]

Labour leaning bloggers on timesofmalta.com were only too eager to point a finger at those who voted for the Nationalist Party in the last General Elections as being to blame for all and every ill in the country.  [24-8-2008]

The violent bus strike was gone, but not forgotten.  [17-8-2008]

The controversy over building around St John's Co-Cathedral dwarfing the church continues.  [10-8-2008]

MEPA publish an Air Quality (and Pollution levels) survey that does not make fun reading.  [3-8-2008]

Following the devastating and violent bus strike, Minister Austin Gatt announces the proposed reforms for the public transport sector.  [27-7-2008]

Fuel cost surcharge on electricity goes up from 50% to 95%.  [20-7-2008]

Tall buildings continue to mushroom on an island that for centuries only permitted two stories.  [13-72008]

A dig at global warming nay-sayers - with reference to the Maltese summer's impossible temperatures. [6-7-2008]

Hospital waiting lists for operations are so long that people are waiting years to get the treatment they need. The new Minister for Health (etc) John Dalli, underscores the problem.  [29-6-2008]

Research indicates that a third of all secondary school children live with only one parent, putting the lie to the concept of the traditional Maltese family.  [22-6-2008]

Dr Joseph Muscat starts off his new leadership of the MLP by saying he will go for unity. Followed almost immediately by the resignation of the oldest serving Labour member of parliament.  [15-6-2008]

The food price rise pinch also hits Malta.  [8-6-2008]

The Labour Leadership contestants are all at each other's throats.  [1-6-2008]

To everyone's incredulity, Bus owners threaten a stoppage from work because they are made to put their buses through emission tests. Like everybody else on the island is.  [25-5-2008]

It is rumoured that Dr Sant is still influencing the decision to be taken about who the next labour leader will be. This is strengthened by the fact that Dr Joseph Muscat was once his protegè.  [18-5-2008]

Secret caches of illegal fireworks continue to be found. The latest cache is discovered in the basement of a band club. The play is also on the Maltese liking of Fireworks Festivals, held around the country on a number of occasions.  [11-5-2008]

A LOT of people are running for Labour leader and deputy leader. Each day the newspapers announce new contestants.  [4-5-2008]

The Nationalist Party owned NET TV station and 101 Radio Station are obsessed with the Labour leadership contest, to the point that the first items on their news broadcasts always cover developments there. [27-4-2008]

The National scheme for separating waste at source is postponed for the second time because of difficulties with the parties involved. [20-4-2008]

The Labour Party Vigilance Board puts a media ban on those who run for the Labour leadership, then, with no explanation, lifts it.  [13-4-2008]

A large number of illegal fireworks factories were being discovered around the island. [6-4-2008]

Just weeks after a disaster with illegal fireworks making causes a tragedy that killed two people and destroyed houses, an illegal fireworks maker is fined 209 Euros by the courts. [30-3-2008]

Popular tv programme Xarabank sets the tone for the upcoming Labour Party leader election with a confrontation between the General Secretary and a potential contestant. Over the next few days, a number of individuals say they will contest, and aspersions are cast on some of them   [23-3-2008]

The Nationalist Party has won the Maltese General Election with the narrowest of margins - just 1,500 votes [16-3-2008]

The morning following the General Election...  [9-3-2008]

The Malta Labour Party electoral campaign was based on constant aspersions of corruption on the Nationalist Party in Government. When interviewed by the Sunday Times, the Leader of the Opposition said he did not need evidence to cry corruption, because everybody knew that what he was saying was true   [2-3-2008]

Leader of the Opposition has been increasingly flippant in answering journalists' questions, saying that historians will have to deal with the past, and being very evasive when answering questions about Labour's plans for Malta if it is elected to power  [24-2-2008]

The billboard in Balzan saying that if Anglu Xuereb of AN be voted into parliament they would remove the Open Centre for Irregular Immigrants at Balzan caused uproar in the community, with many insisting that the new party had shown its true colours  [17-2-2008]

The race is ON. General Elections are to be held on March 8  [10-2-2008]

The cartoonist spent a ridiculous five hours at the OutPatients' Pharmacy at the new Mater Dei Hospital to get medicines. It seems that new hospital does not necessarily mean new practices  [3-2-2008]

None of the regulations and reports written after firework factory calamities are acted upon [27-1-2008]

Lots of speculation on when the Election will be held is going on, to the point that the Prime Minister called it a new national hobby  [20-1-2008]

A new Malta Labour Party strategy is to go through recently built roads to find cracks in them with the intention of indicating that work on them was slipshod. [13-1-2008]

One of the rainiest Decembers on record left an enormous amount of deep car-damaging potholes on Maltese roads, and they were not being fixed in a hurry. [6-1-2008]

2008 will be a General Election year in Malta and Gozo. [30-12-2007]

Unions, spurred on by the imminent general election, become more urgent in their demands for improvement in work conditions. Strikes are threatened left right and centre. [23-12-2007]

The change to Euro campaign in preparation for the January 1 changeover is persistent and invasive. [16-12-2007]

A spate of robberies from unlikely outlets (a pet shop, a confectionery, etc) hits the island. [9-12-2007]

A petition by Lija residents to the EU elicits the acknowledgment of the EU that Lija air pollution exeeds EU limits. However, a construction materials company that seems to be the main culprit proves difficult to dislodge. [2-12-2007]

The reconstruction of the Manwel Dimech Bridge, a traffic artery leading, among others, to Malta's main entertainment district, has met with a number of severe delays. The latest agreement between the Government and the contractor says it will be finished in May 2008. [25-11-2007]

Both main political parties accuse Public Broadcasting Services Limited of partisan bias. [18-11-2007]

A change of the archpriests of the two parishes in Victoria Gozo have caused clashes between the Bishop of Gozo, band clubs and the ex-archpriests themselves. [11-11-2007]

Rumors of a December 2007 election are dashed, and speculation is on again. [4-11-2007]

Children's allowance is drastically increased in the 2008 budget. [28-10-2007]

Both parties vie on whether the 2008 Budget was any good, with the MLP's slogan coming from billboards prepared before the budget was presented in Parliament. [21-10-2007]

The budget for 2008 was being presented in parliament the day following the publication of this strip. [14-10-2007]

An inspector in the employ of the Malta Ornithological Society was "accidentally" shot by a hunter. [7-10-2007]