Our sister publication The Malta Independent featured a news item which should make all of us shudder – 19.2 % of all deaths in Malta are due to inactivity. The rest of the world comes in at...

There was a time when the EU was called the travelling road show.  Summits used to be held in different capitals around Europe, indeed Malta’s application to join the EU was approved in...

The 2013 general election was fought, by and large, on the battleground of good governance. The then Labour Opposition had declared a war on the corruption of the incumbent government and pledged to...

October has been consigned to the past and November has now given way to December. October is known as Pinktober, breast cancer awareness month, yet activities continue throughout the year to continue...

In today’s issue, we publish a front page story whereby an accessibility ramp for disabled people in Citadella, Gozo, is not up to the established criteria to all people in wheelchairs easy...

Presented with a near golden opportunity to re-introduce the once hotly contested secrecy clause to its citizenship-for-cash programme, the government this week instead chose to stick to the moral...

Most young boys used to be brought up on the mantra that no matter what happens, no real man ever hits a woman. It was sound advice that mothers, fathers and grandparents drummed into young boys when...

The statistics make frightening reading. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, weather patterns are changing and the world’s  temperature is also climbing. The whole world is at...

To be slightly facetious, the best thing about CHOGM is that it’s over. One assumes that the leaders did have some serious business to discuss and that the meeting served to promote...

Many were the critics when Malta first expressed interest back in November 2013 to host the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Those voices, for the most part, were silenced this week for...