A horrible tragedy was narrowly avoided yesterday when the ceiling of one of the country’s oldest churches collapsed in the middle of the night, just hours before people were due to congregate...

Five people died in traffic accidents over a span of ten days – four in the same day, on Saturday 12 August, in what surely was one of the worst days for road fatalities in Malta.  Two...

Barcelona has now joined Paris, Brussels, Nice, Manchester, London, and Munich, among others, whose populations have suffered from Islamic terrorist attacks. Over the past few years, the template...

The government is to be commended for the stance it took yesterday when it denied entry and cooperation with a ship belonging to an anti-immigrant organisation. It was only a matter of time...

The last issue of The Malta Independent on Sunday revealed how residents of Munxar were up in arms over plans by a private operator to run a manure storage and processing facility within close...

Partit Demokratiku this week said 70 valleys should be listed as public domain areas, meaning they would be afforded special protection status. This is a very sensible and necessary thing to do....

As this newsroom has editorialised over the last two weeks, justice must not only be done but it also must be seen to have been done. That adage holds particularly true when it comes to the...

A society, such as ours, is an interlinked network which should work fine, but which, when one or more of the links are broken, simply does not function. The experience of many of us, not to say...

We may not be paying enough attention to what the people out there are saying. Let us take some opinions, or reactions, from people who wrote in comments on our own website over the recent...

Two extremely important statements made by the credit rating agency Fitch in its report, which saw an upgrade in Malta’s sovereign credit rating from A to A+ with a stable outlook, have been...