A Bill currently being drafted by Parliamentary Secretary for Active Ageing JUSTYNE CARUANA has drawn criticism from its inception. In certain situations, the state would be given the authority...

Fr Vince Magri, who is the director at the Paulo Freire Institute has worked with vulnerable people of Maltese society for over 27 years. The Malta Independent met him to discuss the extent of poverty...

The impeachment of judges and magistrates should not be decided by Parliament, a process that does not work, according to the president of the Chamber of Advocates, lawyer George Hyzler....

Today the EU Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu will start a two day visit in Malta. The programm will include a visit to the Oncology Hospital which was 85% funded by the EU. She told Rachel...

Josef Bugeja who is next in line to be the General Workers’ Union secretary general, replacing Tony Zarb, said that public sector employment is well under control.  Secretary General...

Tony Zarb, a household name as far as Maltese trade unionism is concerned, will end his long career with the General Workers’ Union at the union’s general conference on 8th October. He made his debut in trade unionism in 1981....

Rami Khalaf has never seen his one-year-old daughter, stuck in Jordan with his wife after having fled Syria together as a family. Two years ago, Rami, his then pregnant wife and two other...

Malta Public Transport General Manager Konrad Pulè tells Neil Camilleri that the public transport company’s financial situation is “on track” and the Spanish-owned company...

European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen has warned that if refugees crossing into the EU are not given employment opportunities, the migration phenomenon currently gripping Europe can become...

Across the world, hundreds of Maltese missionaries have given up on everything to help others, braving poverty, ineqaulities and attrocities that we can’t even start to imagine.  Sister...