This newspaper has written several times about the need to reduce the size of the Maltese Parliament, the biggest there is in Europe, considering the population. With the number of people living...

A very worrying statistic emerged on Eurostat recently, regarding the pension gap in Malta and other EU Member States. The gender pension gap shows the percentage by which women’s average...

The renovated Crafts Village will be inaugurated in the coming weeks, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri said on Indepth last week. This statement is most welcome. The Crafts Village had been...

The Nationalist Party Leader, Adrian Delia, once again finds himself in an impossible situation and, once again, he seems to be refusing to accept reality. Delia is under immense pressure to...

The Standards commissioner George Hyzler has said that he is unconvinced by entrepreneur Luke Chetcuti’s claims that he had been bluffing when he said that he had met Economy Minister Chris...

The reading and thinking part of Malta is understandably very alarmed these days with what is coming out of the various court hearings about various aspects of Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder. In...

Justyne Caruana must be given credit for what she did. In an article she wrote for The Malta Independent a few days after she resigned, she said that it was the toughest political decision she...

Two very positive environmental measures were announed on Wednesday – a project aimed at improving the Environment and Resources Authority’s regulatory and enforcement capacities, and a...

Domestic Violence has been a plague in Malta for many, many years, and while more people are standing up to such violence, it is still not enough. The State has failed the people for too long on...

A reform of the Nationalist Party has been in the making for the past few months, ever since veteran politician Louis Galea was chosen by leader Adrian Delia to work on changes within the party...