The local council elections are set to take place next year. Local councillors directly represent the people in their locality, but there are concerns as to their current effectiveness. PN...

President George Vella’s term is up in just under a year – but there are worries, even in Vella’s own mind, on whether Malta’s two major political parties can reach an...

The day after the now-famous – or infamous – WhatsApp chats between Rosianne Cutajar and Yorgen Fenech were made public, Prime Minister Robert Abela said that the MP had already paid her...

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Darren Carabott told The Malta Independent on Sunday that the Nationalist Party, of which he is an MP, is drafting proposals to strengthen the...

The Catholic Church is commemorating Holy Week, the events which led to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and His Resurrection from death on Easter Sunday. The four Gospels go into great detail on...

Owners of outlets in one of Mosta’s busiest roads have filed a court application, claiming they should be compensated as road works in front of their business have affected their livelihood and...

The latest hot topic in Parliament has been a controversial Bill concerning the period that a person can be held under arrest without charge. Bill 49 – as it is numbered in Parliament...

A group of people organized a clean-up event in Comino last week around the old abandoned hospital, where they said they collected around 140 garbage bags of rubbish. The Nadur Nadif volunteers...

Prime Minister Robert Abela was somewhat offended when he was told that he could not be described as a socialist.  When confronted by journalists on the subject, he went into a long diatribe to...

Yesterday, Malta celebrated Freedom Day, commemorating the anniversary of the withdrawal of British troops and the Royal Navy from Malta in 1979. It is one of the various holidays which crops up...