The Prime Minister’s statement – that Independence Day should be declared as Malta’s only national day – has once again sparked a debate that has been ongoing for several years...

Forty-five years ago, Malta entered a new era of hope and expectations. Today, 45 years later, most of the ex...

Malta has been calling for some sort of organised burden-sharing from its fellow EU member states for years, but, to date, very few have offered a helping hand and the majority h...

Not so long ago, when Mgr Paul Cremona replaced Mgr Joseph Mercieca as Malta’s new Archbishop, the Church in Malta seemed set towards a new ...

Perhaps not even the optimists at the Transport Ministry and Transport Authority thought that there would have been such a strong response for the planned reform in the public transport service....

European Commissioner José Manuel Barroso has secured a second term in office after a secret ballot which saw him confirmed with 382 MEPs voting for him, 219 against and 117 abstentions....

So, the Swedish national football team were instructed not to shake hands with the Maltese players and not to exchange shirts. ...

The idea was certainly not novel. It was not reinventing the wheel. But it just goes to show that Malta is no different to other places in the world and what works as entertainment (and a good cause) in one place, also works here....

The resemblance is uncanny. A knot of wood, running the whole height and through the reach of the branches on an Aleppo Pine looks like the body of the crucified Jesus Christ....

The government’s allusion that there just might be a scope for “limited” spring hunting in years to come defies logic. The statement reads more like a face-saving and placating exercise than rationale concretely attached to the reality of the verdict....