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....

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....