With this country being 100% dependent on the importation of all its fossil fuels to run its power stations and the ever-growing number of vehicles plying the roads, the cost of that imported fuel is...

Today is World Cancer Day. Malta will join the rest of the world in remembering those who have passed before their time as a result of the disease. But it is also vital that we look ahead to the...

Mental illness can affect anyone at any time. Many of those who are struck with some form of affliction – be it depression, bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia or anything else – may not even...

The Prime Minister has sat squarely in the socialist corner in telling Europe that austerity does not work, will not work and should be done away with.  Speaking during the Labour...

Those campaigning to retain the questionable practice of spring hunting need to put an end to their campaign of sheer misinformation and instead appeal to the sensibilities of the Maltese population...

This week, The Malta Independent published an article in which a Maltese Muslim woman said that women who wear the hijab, a simple headscarf, find it difficult to find jobs. The comment section...

This week, the Euro Health Consumer Index issued a report and its verdict on Malta’s healthcare system was damning, to say the least. Aside from the tragic news of patients breathing their...

Directly or not, the Islamic State struck against Malta on Tuesday, with its heinous attack on the Tripoli Corinthia. This was an attack on one of the country’s largest private sector foreign...

Greece has a new Prime Minister and a new government which was elected on the rallying call of being anti-austerity and that of seeking to renegotiate the deals with the troika – the IMF, the EC...

70 years ago today, Red Army soldiers marched up to the gates of the Auschwitz death camp and liberated the remaining Jews who were still alive after the Nazis turned and fled. The Holocaust...