Malta as a nation has suffered an awful lot in recent years simply because the government refuses to take action against its own errant members. And this week's Moneyval assessment was yet...

The Malta Pride activities reach their highlight this evening with the Pride March, which will take place in Valletta. Over the past days, the LGBTIQ community in Malta celebrated the...

The Moneyval report published yesterday acknowledges that substantial efforts have been made by Malta to better understand the threats of money laundering but says that the country is largely failing...

The post 9/11 world came of age yesterday and the 18th anniversary of what was arguably the most gruesome terrorist attack in history was commemorated yesterday in the United States, in New York, in...

For the past weeks The Malta Independent has been carrying features showing photographs of public places as they were tens of years ago, and comparing them with photos of the same places as they are...

The upcoming budget needs to be a far-reaching one, and not just focus on a few sectors. While pensioners for example definitely need more assistance to keep up with day-to-day life, it is also the...

Malta’s booming construction sector is in again facing a huge challenge for the reason that there are not many spots where to place the massive volumes of waste it is creating.  In the...

We have either become a pathetic nation or a completely apathetic nation. What was billed as the demonstration of the year yesterday hardly produced the numbers one would have expected given the hype,...

Malta’s civil society has, en masse, issued an environmental clarion call to the nation that needs to be answered today.  That is because if we do not answer that call to Valletta, that...

Few would have thought that, when British Prime Minister David Cameron had taken Britain to a referendum to decide its future in the European Union, he would have unleashed a political storm that is...