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....

Early last month, The Malta Independent had taken the Children’s Commissioner to task for not making public the name of a television programme or programmes that were having a negative impact because ...

At the signing of the new collective agreement reached between the University of Malta and its academic staff last Wednesday, one journalist, tongue in cheek, remarked that the negotiations for the next collective agreement, ...

Much has been said about climate change these days. In Malta, we manage to turn a subject on which there should be consensus into a political football too, with the government and the opposition trying to take ...

As President-Elect Barack Obama becomes President Obama today in what will be one of the most anticipated presidential inaugurations in memory...

In the end, the unions did what Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi suggested they should do two months ago....

At the end of this momentuous week, one finds oneself still mystified....

The government, mostly through the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA), spends millions of euros in campaigns to market Malta as a destination for tourists. Each and every year,...

It may be called the Malta Communications Authority, but a recent statement which the MCA issued implies it is, or has, no authority....

The build-up was full of pomp. Eleven unions sat down together and, in a press conference on 2 January, when everyone was recovering from the sumptuous New Year’s Day lunch, ...