The first shocks of the international financial crisis have started to hit Malta. In other countries, the effects started to be felt right after the collapse experienced in the United States towards the end of last ...

What was meant to be a clarification meeting on the energy tariffs between 11 unions and the Malta Resources Authority has ended up confusing the situation much more than it was previously....

Malta registered another record year in 2008 for tourist arrivals with total growth of 3.8 per cent despite a downturn in Q4 as a result of the global economic slowdown....

The answers given by university students to simple current affairs questions put by another newspaper should not only embarrass the students who said them, but also the education authorities. ...

The subject of an electoral reform often comes up for discussion. Many times it happens when an election is approaching, which inevitably leads to a heated debate but leaves little time in which to find common ground. ...

Comments made by an assistant police commissioner to this newspaper a few days ago should open the eyes of the parliamentary secretary responsible for local councils before he announces the reform in the sector....

Many households have received their water and electricity bills. Some have received two within a space of a few days....

The European Parliament elections are still five months away, but as the political parties start to gear up towards holding the second edition of such polls to elect Malta’s representatives in the European...

The government has published two important documents that are related to the environment recently, one on tackling climate change, and the other an update of Malta’s solid waste management strategy....

If anyone had told us, a year ago, that most of the world would be hit, and hit badly, by an international wave of recession the like of which the world has not seen for the past 60 years, we would not have believed it....