Leo Brincat’s hearing this week before the budgetary control committee of the European Parliament had an interest that went beyond the theatrical setting of the occasion and the polemics about...

Many a times, academics have been accused of huddling up in the comfort and security of their Ivory Tower, completely detached and alienated from what is happening around them.  This cannot be...

The Labour Party is dying to pick a fight with the Church. To be more accurate, it is dying to provoke Archbishop Charles Scicluna into retaliating to the heavy accusations Labour exponents are...

Last Wednesday, Stephen Calleja, The Malta Independent Online Editor, opined his gut feeling about the turnout of voters in the coming general election.  He forecasted that voter turnout will see...

Malta kif nafuha bhalissa qed tagħmel suċċess. Hekk tgħid l-istatistika. Hekk qalu Moodies u Fitch imħallsa apposta biex joħorġu b'ġudizzju skond...

The sea pollution that is being caused by fish farms is unacceptable by any standards. It is even more so because, as was common knowledge, many were operating in flagrant violation of established...

I am following with great interest what The Malta Independent on Sunday has revealed about the visa scam and the thousands of euros that allegedly were received by Neville Gafa.  The issue of...

The medical visas scandal continues to grow, with threats made against the Libyan go-between who says he paid tens of thousands of euros to Neville Gafà, a former shop assistant placed on the...

It must have been three or so years ago, in late October. I, along with a group of interested persons, climbed the Nuffara hill in Gozo, across the valley from Xaghra, led by an agile and nimble,...

The planning amnesty which Parliamentary Secretary Deborah Schembri launched last week to regularise development illegalities that cannot be addressed through a proper application of planning policies...