An event that created a great deal of controversy, prompting a statement from the Cottonera Joint Committee and an almost immediate reply from the Tourism Ministry, was ultimately postponed because of a forecast of bad weather....

The rate of inflation in Malta for the first eight months of the year has reached 2.8 per cent, the Chamber for Small and Medium Enterprises said yesterday. This places Malta among the countries with the highest inflation rates in Europe....

In August 2004, the retail prices index went down by 0.85 per cent to 103.25 from 104.14 in the previous month, according to figures released yesterday by the National Statistics Office....

A reader contacted The Malta Independent yesterday to complain about double-standards at St Luke’s Hospital when a security guard proceeded to eat a meal right next to a “No food and drinks allowed” sign....

A delegation from the European Parliament Fisheries Committee will be visiting Malta next year....

A week after incidents marred the feast of Our Lady of Graces in Zabbar, the Archbishop’s Curia said that it will be investigating them within the feast regulations that came into force on 1 January 2003....

A group of 97 illegal immigrants were brought to shore yesterday after initially refusing assistance as they had hoped to arrive in Italy....

Ray Bondin was one of the six speakers at a special session on Cities as World Heritage at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum II meeting in Barcelona. He was one of the speakers selected by the Unesco World Heritage Centre to speak about the problems o...

Alternattiva Demokratika has condemned the killing of two flamingos at Ir-Ramla taz-Zejtun, in Marsascala in full view of swimmers but has congratulated the Administrative Law Enforcement unit of the police for solving the case promptly....

Alternattiva Demokratika has expressed its concern over figures published by the National Statistics Office which show that tourists spent Lm7 million less in Malta and nearly Lm0.7 million less in Gozo in the first seven months of this year compared...