Earlier this month, the country’s Civil Code was amended to incorporate the Public Domain Bill that had been tabled as a Private Members Bill a little over a year ago by members of the...

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. But personal attacks on members of the judiciary have no place in a modern democracy – given that a judgment is researched and given within...

The winds have dropped and the weather has settled, meaning that thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants are preparing to make the sea crossing to Europe from Libya. It is the end of May, and already...

One would have imagined that after all the controversy that had been raised over the citizenship by investment programme that the government would be going to extraordinary lengths to ensure the...

The Malta Independent yesterday published a story whereby the Health Department Inspectorate fell short of denying that it is not funding its own inspections to weed out smokers in enclosed...

The construction industry in Malta has long been blighted by lacking standards. There was a time when many builders were exactly that, builders by trade for generation after generation. Many were from...

In exactly one month’s time, the people of the United Kingdom will be taking to the polls to decide on whether or not the country should continue to form part of the European Union. The...

It is most curious indeed why the individuals who have been implicated in the Panama Papers leaks, at least those who hold official positions within the government, do not just come out and publish...

Today is European Obesity Day and to mark the event, new guidelines have been issued by the Health Department to encourage Maltese citizens to make the most of the Mediterranean diet. Malta, slap...

Yesterday’s crashing of an EgyptAir plane into the Mediterranean is concerning on any level.  But, if as several authorities were suggesting at the time of writing yesterday, that the plane...