Three days have now passed since Colin Galea died in hospital, some days after he attempted suicide while he was in prison. Three days where calls for the resignation of prison head Alexander...

The Malta FA recently this week approved the implementation of a protocol to be used when discriminatory behaviour is observed in local football matches. Among other things, match officials will...

The world watched in disbelief this week as the Taliban completed their take-over of Afghanistan. 20 years of war were undone in the space of a few weeks, as the Islamist group took swift advantage of...

Last week news broke that there was a high SEC failure rate in core subjects – Maths, English and Maltese. Figures show that this year, 17% of students who sat for Maltese, 18% who sat for...

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...