Last Thursday, I attended the business breakfast organized by The Malta Business Weekly, where the local business community had the opportunity to listen to what Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil had...

Our culture has not written off the importance of being punctual. I value and give importance to punctuality. I hate turning up late for any meeting or any event of whatever nature. However,...

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...

Let me try to keep it simple. To compund climate change, classical bloody wars, accompanied by energy wars, spiritual-cum-religious wars and financial battels are vying for the title which can wreak...

It was only a matter of time before the hunters slipped up. They claim that the majority of them are law-abiding and non-violent (a bit rich, when you claim a passion for killing things with a gun),...

Of this, I am quite sure. I am sure that last Sunday morning Dr Joseph Muscat had no idea what we were going to come up with, i.e. the fact that we had access to the Swiss Leaks list and he did...

I've just booked my flight to Malta to vote in next month's Spring Hunting Referendum. In a country like ours the maxim 'every vote counts' is not a hollow statement but an absolute truth. The...

Earlier this week, the Ornis Committee recommended that the next spring hunting season should be opened. The government obliged on Thursday by declaring that, subject to the result of the abrogative...

One would be tempted to query Education Minister Evarist Bartolo's lament in Parliament last week that parents in Malta still look at culture and the arts as "a waste of time", particularly at a time...

The Pyrotechnic Association is supporting the Yes vote not because it sees a threat to the Maltese festa, but because their aspirations to have uncontrolled fireworks are perceived to be under threat....