The Covid-19 situation hit voluntary organisations and NGOs hard, limiting the way they can raise funds. Add to that people working reduced hours, some losing jobs, and many focusing on...

The PN has likely dodged a bullet by not hosting major Independence Day activities this year. PN Secretary General Francis Zammit Dimech told The Malta Independent on Sunday that no traditional...

The news that Xarabank, one of the longest running television programmes to grace Maltese television, had been cancelled by the Public Broadcasting Services on Friday was greeted with what seemed to...

We have been told, ad nauseam, that the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the most notorious crime in recent memory, has been solved.  They keep telling us that the three suspects were caught and...

Malta is by far the safest country in the Mediterranean, Tourism Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli told the BBC in early July. That was the time when the number of new Coronavirus cases was...

The Broadcasting Authority has a lot of explaining to do. Earlier this week it emerged that the authority had issued a directive to the national broadcaster, PBS, instructing it not to broadcast any...

Malta is experiencing a huge increase in the number of Coronavirus cases, which have now reached record levels, and yet its head of government chose to go on holiday. While front-liners sweat in...

On Sunday afternoon, a political appointee to Malta’s Shanghai consulate – Aldo Cutajar, who is the brother of the Maltese civil service chief Mario Cutajar – was charged with money...

When a top public official who has been facing calls to step down for years suddenly hands in his resignation, one rightfully expects to know what the reason behind the resignation is.  Attorney...

Finance Minister Edward Scicluna this week shed more light on the way Joseph Muscat’s government was run, how major decisions were taken not by the Cabinet but by a ‘kitchen cabinet’...