Last week, the competition watchdog made a big thing about the insurance market. As we reported on our front page last week, the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority came down like a...

In having pressed charges against a BirdLife activist for trespassing in Miżieb, the FKNK hunting lobby has ended up shooting itself in the foot.  And by having chosen to open the can...

It is no mean feat for Angela Merkel to make her fourth electoral victory in Germany’s election. The scientist from East Germany, a former member of the Communist Party, now stands to have...

The Malta Independent has on several occasions reported about the sorry state of our environment and how our beaches, valleys and iconic skylines are being devastated.  A few months back we also...

Yesterday we witnessed two new shocking cases of illegal hunting, with the shooting down of two greater flamingos, one over Hal Far and the second over Marsascala. The first bird had to be...

New Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia has solved one of his most outstanding problems – that of securing himself a parliamentary seat. But there are still many more in store if he is to...

The news that Air Malta is effectively being turned into a low cost airline has been welcomed by the public at large, and the recipe seems to be working, at least for now. Bookings were immediately up...

It was an uninspiring speech delivered before a not very inspiring crowd. Not that the Independence mass meeting 'crowds' were very inspiring in the past couple of years. Adrian Delia is new at this...

Last week, we reported that the Z/Yen and the China Development Institute issued the latest Global Financial Centres Index. This reported that London retained its crown as the world's top...

Air Malta and the government have now put what they consider to be the best offer they can possibly make, without breaking the airline's back once and for all, on the table for its employees. But by...