The director of prisons, Robert Brincau, is facing court proceedings. He has been charged with threatening an ambulance driver with a weapon last August. He is also accused of causing slight bodily...

Former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was laid to rest yesterday. The government respected his wish not to have a State funeral. Mifsud Bonnici wanted the last respects to be in conformity...

Traffic on Maltese roads is still a major problem.  A route that should take 10 minutes, could end up taking 30, or even 45 minutes. Realistically speaking, the government’s strategy to...

There was a collective sigh of relief last Thursday when the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal closed the Hondoq chapter, at least for now. Only the developers were disappointed with the...

Government’s transparency is very much in question. We see it time and again, through Freedom of Information (FOI) request refusals and also through the refusal to publish certain contracts...

There was a time when students chained themselves to the steel railings that used to surround the façade of the Auberge de Castille, the Prime Minister’s office. It happened in 1977,...

It was 100 years ago that the national anthem was written. Based on music composed by Robert Samut, poet Dun Karm Psaila wrote the lyrics of what would become one of Malta’s symbols....

Thursday will see another step in the 20-year saga dominating one of the last frontiers of undeveloped and pristine land in Gozo. That is because the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal...

Environmentalists and developers have been going head-to-head for years,  is clear which side the politicians favour. Over the past couple of weeks, this newsroom interviewed President of...

A survey, which is an annual one commissioned by the Malta Developers Association and carried out by KPMG, confirmed last week what was already quite apparent: that housing has become less affordable...