We’ve been hearing it for the past few weeks and, no doubt, we’ll continue to hear it until we vote in the local councils election on 11 April – for the Labour Party, all Labour-led...

We are nearly two weeks into the campaign leading up to the local councils elections on 11 April, but the Nationalist Party does not seem to have noticed yet. While the Labour Party is...

At 4.15pm last Friday, The Malta Independent newsroom received a press call from the Department of Information. At 4.45pm, just 30 minutes later, Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi was to give a press...

Don’t be disappointed if Joseph Muscat does not resign today, on the day that his self-imposed deadline for the completion of the power station at Delimara expires. He is a man that enjoys...

One government failure after another is not resulting in the Nationalist Party gaining any ground. Whatever mishap, lack of foresight, individual or collective mistake, and full-blown scandal that the...

Some weeks are worse than others for this government. While, on the one hand, on the macro level the country is doing fine, and the assessments being made by the European Commission as well as...

I was going to say that it was surprising that the Prime Minister’s initial reaction to the story carried in The Malta Independent on Sunday on Swiss Leaks was to defend Michael Falzon and Ninu...

The Islamic State is on Malta’s doorstep and international media report that they are on the brink launching a full-scale attack against Europe, and yet the Public Broadcasting Station’s...

Last October, when The Malta Independent website was re-launched in its present format, one of the changes that we introduced was the possibility for our readers to interact on stories with comments...

Last Sunday, Joseph Muscat said that the Labour Party always respected democracy. Well, maybe he should be reminded of what happened in the 1981 election, but given that in the same speech he...