VAIRA VIKE-FREIBERGA, President of Latvia, speaks about her country’s membership of the European Union and the role of small States in an enlarged EU. She was talking to David Kelleher...

Dr JANET MIFSUD is Commissioner of the Commission for the Promotion of Equality for Men and Women (NCPE). She is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Malta. With respect to gender iss...

Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti have added another exceptional book to their treasure trove of publications. Roman Baroque Sculpture in Malta which is Patrimonju’s 27th, is vividly illustrated with over 100 photographs and is authored by Keith Sciberras...

Anne Bashkiroff, the woman who in the 1970s raised public awareness on Alzheimer’s disease in the US, believes “caregiving” should be given utmost and immediate importance in Malta....

Malta has one of the highest ratios of outgoing teachers as a percentage of the teaching population who have benefited from Erasmus, the EU mobility action scheme....

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday said that Malta’s EU accession process has highlighted and accelerated the need for legislation and policies to address particular issues that are hampering the promotion of gender equality, namely the low par...

For the first time since the National Obstetrics Information System was set up in 1999, an increase in the number of births was recorded last year....

With reference to last week’s article in The Malta Independent on Sunday entitled “New MTA chairman to be appointed” John Grech categorically denies that any of the companies he is involved in has ever received any contract from the Malta Tourism Aut...

Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi yesterday announced the eight Nationalist Party candidates for the European Parliament elections to be held on Saturday 12 June....

I had an invitation to attend a press conference at the Hilton last Saturday and it was being hosted by Caviar Creator. I go to very few press conferences but this was my day off and I was curious. The only place I had seen caviare on the menu here w...