The Malta Independent 23 July 2026, Thursday
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President

Friday, 5 April 2024, 14:37 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

There is probably no other Constitutional office in our country more misunderstood than that of the President of Malta. For many people, the Office of the President of Malta is all about the...

Surveys

Thursday, 4 April 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

The public opinion surveys being conducted about the European Parliament elections are shedding more heat than light. Their most consistent conclusion is that the Labour Party is always shown to be...

Monuments of the past

Monday, 1 April 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

One sympathises with the complaints of people who totally dislike the prominence given in our midst to monuments which reflect Malta’s colonial past. Similar reactions have been registered in...

Pelting with eggs

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 08:06 Last update: about 3 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The debate on defence policy requires to be dealt with much more seriously than through pelting Prime Minister Robert Abela with eggs, as happened last Tuesday during a political activity at...

Valletta deserves better

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 08:02 Last update: about 3 years ago Darren Carabott

It’s Easter Sunday, and while we wonder where the first three months of the year have gone so swiftly, I cannot but remark on the Holy Week festivities that took place in Valletta in the past...

Gozo: Embracing the Easter spirit

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Today is Easter and most of us in Gozo have no other plans than to enjoy the day peacefully. Most of our Maltese friends maybe have gone through a waiting ordeal coming to Gozo as the Gozo Channel is...

Murky moguls

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 07:54 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

The last decade has been a golden age for crony capitalism in Labour’s Malta.  Murky moguls have become increasingly entangled with Labour and its ministers. The net worth of Labour’s...

Legal and procedural obstacles related to child support payments

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 07:50 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

In March of last year, PL MP Amanda Spiteri Grech recommended the setting up of an authority regulating missed parental maintenance payments. When it comes down to the enforcement of child support and...

Requiem for a dream

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 06:05 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

By the time this article gets to be published Air Malta will be no more. It was a dream that sustained us through all these years but it has now come to its inevitable end. Looking back, I think...

The attack in Moscow

Thursday, 28 March 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

Clearly, like we did with respect to the French people when the Bataclan concert hall was attacked by terrorists in Paris, we express full solidarity with the Russian people following the heinous...

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