15th August 1942 - as Malta was on the verge of surrendering to the enemy, the people were famished and the country in ruins, and the embattled Ohio, having endured enemy fire, sailed into the Grand...

Malta has long been losing out on its genuine citizenship and public domain as a result of the large-scale public land transfers in favour of local and foreign 'land grabbers' and as a result of our...

Since 2003, there have been two ways by which laws are passed in Malta: one goes through the Malta Parliament; the other is via the EU institutions in Brussels - European Commission, the Council and...

There have been few other times when the European Union was shown to be an emperor with so few clothes on as now. In the face of aggressive and arbitrary US demands on trade relations it has buckled,...

Last week ('Government's Legalised Rape of Malta's Environment', The Malta Independent on Sunday, 3/8/2025), I stated that Bills number 143 and 144 of July 2025 were in breach of the rule of law: 'The...

Joseph Muscat is paid tens of thousands of euro by Michael Stivala the Malta Developers Association President to be his consultant. He's been paid tens of thousands more by Fortina's Zammit Tabona. So...

Every year, more than 727,000 people worldwide take their own lives. Many more thousands make suicide attempts. Every suicide is a tragedy that affects families, communities, and entire countries and...

We are unfortunately too often witnessing economic considerations run counter to good environmental practice. It is time to identify government priorities that could help accelerate the evolution to a...

We've all come across one or two. A video of the Pope dancing in a nightclub, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky surrendering, or former US President Barack Obama being arrested in the oval...

The debate on the required changes to land use planning regulation in Malta has reached a very dangerous stage. Bill 143 and Bill 144 have a very clear objective: to ensure that as many safeguards as...