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...

The government is all the time telling us that we have had record growth over the past years, beating the growth registered in other European countries. But then comes Caritas, the church-funded...

The reality of the situation is that until Malta develops and implements a mass transport system to service the whole island, with intermodal buses, trams and boats, the traffic problem might be...

The Malta Independent’s stable has been named as an official partner to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that released the Swissleaks and subsequently the much talked...