It’s not a surprise that 87 per cent of the Maltese think that corruption is rampant. The surprise is that there is a 13% which does not believe so.  Corruption has existed since time...

Unions who spoke to The Malta Independent on Sunday said that the social partners have as yet to start discussions on a possible revision of the Cost of Living Adjustment mechanism. We are fast...

The Standards Commissioner’s decision not to investigate a complaint filed against Speaker Anglu Farrugia sets a dangerous precedent for the future of Malta’s parliament. The matter...

Prime Minister Robert Abela accused the Opposition of putting up a show in their quest to have him appoint a public inquiry to look into the death of a young man on a construction site late last...

It seems that there has been a change of tack somewhere within the ranks of the government’s transport sector. The increase in the number of vehicles granted a Y-plate – which are the...

Summer is here again, and for another year temperature records are being shattered. This time though, it’s not just national records which are being broken: the Earth’s average...

The Tourism Minister is at it again. Asked by Times of Malta to say how much Malta – the taxpayers – spent on a lavish film festival over the weekend, Clayton Bartolo said he will not...

Late last month, the government presented a bill in Parliament which aims to “provide for the enhanced protection of artistic expression and, in particular, to provide for the avoidance of the...

We have been told that we are heading towards another record Cost of Living Adjustment when the budget for 2024 is presented later this year. The chief executive officer of the Malta Chamber of...

Anglu Farrugia has served as Speaker of Malta’s Parliament ever since the Labour Party came to power in 2013. The Speaker’s position is meant to be one of great impartiality, yet on a...