The decline in vaccination uptake for both influenza and Covid-19 should be a matter of serious concern, not only for health authorities but for society at large. Vaccination has long been one of the...

The strength of a society is not measured solely by the reach of its government, but by the willingness of its people to step forward for one another. In Malta and Gozo, the voluntary sector has long...

For the past few days Labour ministers, MPs and party officials have been tripping over each other to shower praise on Prime Minister Robert Abela for his six years at the helm. The choreography has...

The Police Force recently introduced a support response team for families of victims of serious crimes, which will work with the Victim Support Agency. Officers from this new team will be...

At the start of the week, shoppers around Malta encountered empty or poorly stocked supermarket shelves following several days of severe weather that disrupted cargo deliveries to the...

The proposals regarding safety put forward a few days ago by Momentum deserve serious attention. They are politically coherent and they respond to a risk we have allowed to become dangerously...

Safety on Malta's roads is not only about reckless drivers, speeding, or poor enforcement. It is also about something far more basic: whether the infrastructure itself can be trusted not to fail. Last...

Opposition Leader Alex Borg told The Malta Independent on Sunday last week that he has not yet been contacted about the need to fill two major posts that will require a two-thirds majority vote in...

Tables and chairs taking up public spaces has been an issue for several years, but the issue only became greater when restaurants were given a supposedly temporary concession during the Covid-19...

The six years of Robert Abela as Prime Minister have been defined by genuine achievements, undeniable crises, and a growing sense that some of the deeper structural problems Malta faces have...