The results of a Eurobarometer survey that were published this week show that Maltese people trust political parties (36 per cent) more than they trust the written media (32 per cent). This may...

In just a few days, we have had some serious intimations of mortality in what we thought were the safest and most solid of our institutions - the banks. After all, the banks in Malta, both the...

A four-day summit on preventing clergy sexual abuse is being held at the Vatican this week. It is a meeting during which the Church will make it clear to Catholic bishops around the world that there...

Environment Minister Jose Herrera announced earlier this week that environmental surveys are being carried out in several valleys with the aim of drawing up a master plan for the conservation of Malta...

It is unfortunately quite common for political parties to lose some of their very best elements. Alternattiva Demokratika which has now lost Arnold Cassola is one such case. First of all, the...

The two main parties took their teams to Gozo yesterday, as we report in today’s issue. In the run-up to the May European Parliament election and the local councils election, practically two...

That the tuna farming industry is rife with funny business has been a well-known fact for a long time now, but this week’s allegations against the fisheries director of having taken kickbacks...

In two terse statements, which arrived in our newsroom almost simultaneously earlier this week, Partit Demokratiku (PD) and Alternattiva Demokratika (AD) said that they had discussed ways of...

Justice Minister Owen Bonnici replied with a "no comment" yesterday when asked, by this newspaper, why the role of leading the constitutional convention had been given to President Marie-Louise...

That large field next to the Addolorata Cemetery, where they used to hold the circus, has suddenly been filled with Turkish trucks and cement mixers. They must have been brought in to take part...