For all the words and pomp in favour of the environment and of having open spaces for the community to enjoy, sometimes it really doesn’t feel like there’s any willingness to transfer...

Summer used to be a relatively quiet time in terms of news.  Journalists used to jokingly refer to the Santa Marija period in August as the ‘silly season’ because nothing much would...

The farming industry is, in many ways, one of the oldest industries on the planet. Agriculture has helped the world develop – from the early days of cultivation thousands of years ago,...

This Maltese summer has heralded three separate heat waves, with temperatures rising above the 40 degrees Celsius mark becoming more and more of a frequent occurrence. Many have found it...

It was exactly a month ago, on 11 July, that we had written a leader decrying the situation at the Corradino Correctional Facility. That leader was written following the death of a 29-year-old...

The president of the Labour Party, Ramona Attard, told The Malta Independent on Sunday in an interview that the State which was under investigation in the inquiry into the assassination of Daphne...

According to the met experts, Malta is heading into yet another heatwave this week – the third one this summer. Given how things have been going at Enemalta, it is reasonable to assume that...

It’s pretty clear by now that Edward Zammit Lewis is – with apologies to Margaret Thatcher – not for turning. He remains committed to holding on to not just his green seat...

Aren’t we a lucky country. In its century of representative government and democratically-elected parliaments, Malta has never had a Member of Parliament, still less a Cabinet Minister, who...

The issue of illegally placed caravans has again come up in the news this summer. After Infrastructure Malta finally took action against the caravans which have long blighted the shoreline at...