General Workers’ Union secretary general Tony Zarb and deputy secretary general Gejtu Mercieca yesterday filed a libel suit against Nationalist Party media journalist Nathaniel Attard....

APS Bank and the Malta Union of Bank Employees (MUBE) have recently signed the collective agreement covering the period 2005-2007. ...

The cleaning up of the Crownworks and Hornworks ditches in Blata l-Bajda, another step towards the implementation of the Park and Ride Scheme, started last week, The Malta Independent has learnt. ...

The Marsascala Labour Party committee yesterday wrote to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (Mepa) to complain about WasteServ’s plans for the Marsascala waste recycling plant....

The increase in the cost of living is reducing the purchasing power of Maltese families, and this has been confirmed by businessmen who say that people are consuming less....

A number of three and four-star hotels have decided to close down for the winter to reduce their operation losses, Labour spokesman on tourism Evarist Bartolo said yesterday....

Members of the Civil Protection Department had another busy day yesterday when they were called to control at least nine fires in different parts of the island, including in Gozo. ...

More than 8,000 Maltese travellers booked their holidays on one of the three cruise liners departing from Malta this summer, according to owners of travel agencies who spoke to The Malta Independent....

Local artist Madeleine Gera takes a look at two beautiful but often overlooked paintings by the famous Calabrese artist Mattia Preti ...

The Malta Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce will again be organising the first term (October – December) Winter – morning/evening courses in arts, crafts, drama and music between the first week of October and December. ...