Prior to 1990, the port of Valletta used to be the only port in Malta that effectively linked the islands with the outside world through maritime transport. ...

With over 700 births to unmarried girls (and of course the boys who are the hidden daddies!) last year, everyone it seems wants to be a “yummy mummy” these days....

In the 1950s and 1960s, difficult as it may seem to us parents now, hundreds of Maltese children (not orphans as I had previously thought) were sent to Australia to be educated by the so called Chri...

Early in 2004 I had published a series of articles in my Friday column in The Malta Independent suggesting a 10-point plan to get us out of the economi...

It's odd how people are not embarrassed to admit in public that they are supporters of the troll with...

Louis Farrugia, chief executive of the Farsons group and one of Malta’s captains of industry, hit the nail on the head when he...

When Malta joined the European Union, the government and the Nationalist Party had stated with pride that Maltese citizens would enjoy the four freedoms like all other European Union citizens. This included, among others, the free movement of people....

Remember the parable of the Good Samaritan? Of course you do. For a second there, I almost forgot we were living in the country with the highest Christian population densit...

The first time I met Godfrey Grima, the journalist who has, over the past three decades, undoubtedly lead the small, restricted band of Maltese scribblers who have had ...

It is true there is a substantial difference between what the government says is the state of the economy, what people feel, what the constituted bodies state and what the Opposition says. ...