The deputy director of the Commonwealth Foundation, Rudo Chitiga, has urged Malta to take a stand on the provision of development aide to developing countries. ...

Ivan Falzon has been appointed Sea Malta chairman, succeeding Marlene Mizzi who resigned last Monday. ...

The government yesterday announced a radical rethinking of its IT system strategy, bringing all IT networks into one system, and turning MITTS from a company to an agency providing IT service throughout the public sector area. ...

In May this year the number of cruise passengers went up by 5,352 over the same month last year, jumping to 36,092 from 30,740, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday....

Dr Gavin Gulia is currently shadowing the Armed Forces, The Malta Independent can confirm. ...

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday presented Malta’s official invitation to November’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) summit to British and Australian High Commissioners Vincent Fean and Richard John Park....

An influx of irregular immigrants made it to the northern shores of the Mediterranean yesterday, with 48 migrants landing in Malta and a staggering 300 reaching the Sicilian and Lampedusian shores. ...

How does one man change the world?It’s a question that haunts Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) like the spectre of his parents, gunned down before his eyes in the streets of Gotham on a night that changed his life forever....

Alcohol seems to be an integral part of social practices in the Maltese islands....

The government should consider legislating in favour of allowing vulnerable people such as elderly people and widowers to keep a weapon in their home which they would be able to use to defend themselves....