Charles Butler, the man who was arrested in the United Kingdom following an international arrest warrant issued by the Ragusa Courts in connection with the trafficking of illegal immigrants from Malta to Sicily, is not likely to be extradited to Ital...

Road traffic injuries kill as many as 350 people a day – over 127,000 every year in the World Health Organisation European Region. According to WHO, the leading cause of death is speed....

British tourists – traditionally one of the mainstays of the local tourism market – are becoming increasingly more selective when choosing their holiday destination. A report in The London Times earlier last week indicated that although 2004 is expec...

Replying to what has recently been said by Charles Agius, the secretary of the Construction and Metal Section of the GWU, Malta Shipyards chairman John Cassar White described the situation at the dockyards in a statement sent to The Malta Independent...

The Labour Party received a record amount of donations during the year ended 30 June 2003, just a couple of thousand short of Lm0.5 million, but such were the party’s expenses due to the referendum and election campaigns that the party ended up in a...

Walking around the Paola square yesterday morning it was evident that the talk of the town was the break-in at the Post Office on Thursday evening. Since the market is just behind the building, a steady stream of people were taking a look at the side...

Michael Xuereb, a 20-year-old artist and university student from Nadur, Gozo will be a guest of honour, representing Malta in a youth event organised by the Irish Presidency of the European Union on 1 May....

Yesterday afternoon a group of 50 men who entered Malta illegally in the past years, and who have been living in detention at the Hal Far, and Safi Barracks were given their right to freedom....

In an operation that lasted over two hours, Malta Maritime Authority personnel, escorted by an AFM patrol boat, released two yachts from their moorings in the yacht marina and towed them to Grand Harbour where these were lifted on to hard standing an...

Allegations by the government that the Malta Labour Party would “rather see Air Malta go out of business” have been rejected by the MLP, which claims that it had long warned about a potential crisis within the company....