Averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, temperatures warmed roughly 0.85 degrees Celsius from 1880 to 2012, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That may not sound like much,...

The Mediterranean migrant situation hardly affects Malta anymore, with the country having become an indifferent spectator to the daily tragedies that occur off our southern shore. But despite the fact...

The European Commission has sent a letter to the Maltese government asking why it failed to transpose the fourth anti-money laundering directive into law, which is aimed at making it harder for...

There is a special group of workers who are working in the full glare of the sun and in the sight of one and all and who have become the admiration of the whole country. We are referring to the...

We are being told that our national airline, Air Malta, is breaking even. The unofficial narrative in yesterday’s Times of Malta goes that under the new Minister for Tourism Konrad Mizzi,...

The past few days have been very difficult for us all, but especially for the old and the frail and those who live without the modern comfort of air-conditioning. The high temperatures we have...

What a sorry state of utter pandemonium the Nationalist Party has allowed itself to descend into.  With a caretaker party leader who seems to be merely biding his time until his time is up in...

The Vitals Global Healthcare saga that is currently unfolding in the independent media following leaks from the contract signed between former Health and Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi and the unknown...

It is not very often that we praise Konrad Mizzi, whose name will for many years to come remain synonymous with the Panama Papers scandal.  But the popular minister is so far doing quite well in...

This past week has seen two statutory events held by the major banks in Malta, the Extraordinary General Meeting of Bank of Valletta (see pg 15) and the presentation of the HSBC figures (see pg...