During the 50-hour sailing marathon held last weekend, the Vikings Sailing Club raised Lm1,300 for the Muscular Dystrophy Group....

If the eco-tax is unjustly imposed on existing stocks, the Chamber for Small Businesses and Enterprises (GRTU) will be forced to ask its members not to pay it and not to implement it....

International credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) confirmed its long- and short-term ‘A/A-1’ foreign currency sovereign credit ratings for Malta yesterday....

The Malta Independent employees were taken by surprise when they were leaving their office for their break yesterday: someone had placed two ‘No parking and no waiting’ signs practically in the middle of the road....

Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party is calling on Mepa and other competent authorities to ensure that all beaches are fully accessible to all bathers and not just to those who are willing to pay for sunbed facilities....

Rumours that a new PABX system being installed at the Education Department as another cost-cutting exercise by the government were immediately quashed – but not before they had spread like wildfire....

The year 2003 saw an increase in the number of youths becoming members of various youth organisations. Membership increased by 1.1 per cent, from 53,633 in 2002 to 54,215 in 2003, figures released by the National Statistics Office said yesterday....

As night settles this evening our planet silently plunges through the orbit of comet Swift-Tuttle, encountering debris left over by the comet each time it approaches the sun, every 130 years....

During July and August, there were five births to women refugees who are residing at homes managed by the Emigrants Commission. ...

The abrupt enforcement, by the Malta environment and Planning Authority (Mepa), of legal notice 158/98, lifting thousands of energy drinks, a week before the Santa Maria feast, will have a negative effect on bars, night-clubs other places of entertai...