Working on a new project is always an exciting time. These last six months have been busy as we prepared for the launch of the new website. The idea was to improve on what we were already...

Yes, I cannot but give credit to the directors, management and staff at The Malta Independent. The launch of the new version of The Malta Independent website last Friday was a pleasant event, a big...

Dr Toni Abela, in his customary style, has re-ignited a debate that in more ways than one has been making the rounds for quite some time, namely that of regularizing brothels. Dr Abela during...

Now that Mr. Karmenu Vella has passed his lengthy 'rigorous interview" for the position of an EU commissioner, which he secured, it is time to reflect a little on what has been going on these past...

I love portraits.  Photographic portraits are my preferred choice, because they are usually more true of the sitter than of the artist, but while photography is relatively young,  ...

The Prime Minister's wife is making a big mistake by flashing herself around and having the government's Department of Information issue press photographs of her meeting this or that star or dignitary...

On two successive Sundays, a seemingly ad hoc crowd came together and demonstrated in Valletta. One had an immediate cause to it - hunters protesting against the suspension of the hunting season...

Europe has again defeated the US in the Ryder Cup. Where golf is concerned, there is nothing we need to learn from the US. But in the handling of the economic crisis, there is much that Europe needs...

After a couple of no shows, our President, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca has made it to the Vatican.  With Michelle and Joseph launching their platforms at the UN in New York there was perfect...

The opening of the forensic year brought about two contrasting views about our system of justice. The first one was that expressed by Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri and the other by Auxiliary Bishop...