The Malta Union of Teachers and the government have agreed to continue discussions around the negotiating table, with the union saying that it will suspend directives for State and Church schools from...

There is a clear need to give local councils more power over issues in their locality. More powers on the issue of waste collection is one example, a stronger say on major planning applications...

Sunday happened to be the World Sustainable Transport Day - a day declared by the United Nations General Assembly back in May which is dedicated the strengthening of sustainable transport and of calls...

Our dear Tourism Minister was in the news for the wrong reasons again these past few days. Three times, we add. Clayton Bartolo first refused to table a full report compiled by the Malta...

On Monday, a one-day nation-wide teachers’ strike for government and church schools is planned.  The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) and the government have been unable to reach agreement...

The importance of recycling cannot be stressed enough.  Dumping plastic rather than recycling it has extremely damaging effects on the environment. The move to eliminate certain single use...

It was announced this week that the government is proposing a discussion on the possibility of enacting a law that will ban cigarette sales to people born after a certain date which is yet to be...

If we were in a normal country, heads would have rolled, Nationalist MP Beppe Fenech Adami said in an interview with this media house. It was a metaphorical call, of course, but it was a very...

Recent data published in a University of Malta research study regarding child abuse is concerning. It highlighted ‘very high’ percentages of child abuse cases, and a ‘very...

Homelessness is not as visible in Malta as it is in some other European countries, but this does not mean that there aren’t people living such a reality. There are those among us who...