Identikits: What is going on?
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 08:16
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The police issued a computer generated identikit of a man they suspect was involved in the brutal murder of a man in Hamrun last Friday. Paul Degabriele was shot dead in Marsa at around...
Worrying news coming from an EU aspirant
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 08:07
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Turkey's prime minister has rejected claims that he is a "dictator," dismissing protesters as an extremist fringe, even as thousands returned to the landmark Istanbul’s Taksim...
Europe’s citizens express their frustrations
Monday, 3 June 2013, 08:12
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Anti-austerity protesters on Saturday took to the streets of dozens of European cities, including Madrid, Frankfurt and Lisbon, to express their anger at government cuts. Although his...
An eternal disgrace
Sunday, 2 June 2013, 09:30
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The government’s decision, reportedly implemented on 9 March - the very day after the last general election, and before the government was even sworn in - to reduce the Floriana War...
Regulation is clearly needed
Saturday, 1 June 2013, 09:26
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Many seem to take for granted the fact that we can procreate and continue living as we do. But the European Perinatal Health Report issued this week shows that we may, perhaps, be taking things for...
EDP: Recouping the shortfall
Friday, 31 May 2013, 09:06
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The European Council is set to reopen the Excessive Deficit Procedure against Malta, less than six months after the procedure was last withdrawn, following recommendations made by the European...
Malta takes the right stance on Syria
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 15:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The stance adopted by Malta along with its EU peers this week on dropping the Syrian opposition arms embargo, effectively opening the way for individual EU states to help arm the Syrian rebels, was...
Cocaine: Specific and targeted help for addicts
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 09:09
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
In the European Drug Report 2013, it was observed that cocaine is fast becoming cheaper and more easily obtainable throughout Europe and Malta is no exception. In reference to Malta, the...
Murder most barbarous
Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 09:17
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Maybe the reverberations here in Malta of last week’s murderous butchery of a British soldier right in front of his own barracks by a Kenyan man who went on to justify, as he saw it, what he had...
Linking Gozo to the rest of the world
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 09:27
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
It is often said that Malta suffers as a result of insularity – in terms of being an island nation in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. But over the years, under different...