We do not see it as much as those who have travelled to cosmopolitan cities have seen it, but there are strong indications that the numbers are on the rise. We’re talking about...

The number of reports of domestic violence received by the Police has doubled in a decade, up from the 851 received in 2011 to 1,745 in 2021. This was reported by The Malta Independent on...

Community has for decades been an intrinsic part of Maltese life.   Be it the sense of community around something like a village feast, or a football team, or even something as simple of...

A court of law was told a few days ago that a man felt “pressured” to help people pass the driving test because they were working in a villa that belonged to a government...

We are approaching the start of the scholastic year.  Later this month, thousands of children and youths up and down the country will return to their classrooms – be it at primary school,...

As summer moves into September and begins to draw to a close, the Parliamentary season comes ever closer.  The key appointment in the House’s calendar is the Budget, which will set out the...

It was in December 1989, on what will remembered as one of the coldest and stormy weekends ever to hit Malta, that then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met then US President George H. W. Bush in...

The NGO Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar brought to public attention a plan to build offices, meeting rooms, a shop and a restaurant on public, open space between Gzira Gardens and the yacht marina...

A survey conducted by the Faculty for Social Wellbeing revealed that 54.6% of people have a sense of loneliness. This was an 11% increase over a similar survey conducted in 2019. That is a...

The Highway Code is set to be updated. This news was revealed by the senior inspector of the police traffic branch, Nicholas Vella, during an interview with The Malta Independent on...