You would have to have been living under a rock to have missed the news concerning the court’s decision to annul the government’s concession to sell off three state hospitals to the...

In spite of being two separate institutions, the Ombudsman and the Standards Commissioner were linked together in a months-long saga which ended on Monday. Parliament gave the go-ahead for the...

In an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday, Sandra Gauci said that small parties should try to take advantage of the shortcomings of the two major parties to make inroads into the duopoly...

The Nationalist Party has gone through a very tough time the past years. It failed to make headway in the polls, its internal divisions were being aired in public, and the public lacked faith in the...

The concept of a public inquiry is, now, not a new one for Malta.  After many, many months of campaigning, a public inquiry was appointed to look into the circumstances which led to the murder of...

The annulment of the three hospitals deal remained the main political topic during the past week, with the judge’s rescinding of the agreement he described as fraudulent taking up so much space...

Malta has its advantages, but also has its fair share of problems. The small size of our country means that we run into friends and people we know quite frequently. It means that we don’t...

A collision between two trains left 43 passengers dead as carriages turned into twisted steel knots in what has become the country’s deadliest rail crash. Barely a few hours after the...

How many more times are we going to have reports saying that the system messed up or the State failed to do something before we really understand how “the system” and “the...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna’s homilies are never long. He knows that people’s attention span is limited and that the mind can easily wander away if sermons become too pedantic and...