The growth rate for the third quarter of the year has been lower than the one projected. This is putting at risk financial targets set by the European Commission for member states of the...

The Maltese people are generous when it comes to charity, that was my very first impression of them when I landed on this island some 20 years ago and I still have the same impression today. Time...

The planning application to convert two old town houses in Saqqajja, Rabat into a boutique hotel is another attempt to mutilate our historical heritage. The row of town houses at Saqqajja, rather than...

I spent most of the past week in Parliament - the British one. It so happened that before I ever entered the Maltese Parliament, I attended a sitting in the House of Commons, when John Major was...

The EU Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy was adopted in January. The strategy addresses the challenges posed by the use of plastics throughout their life cycle: that is, from the initial...

Safe City Malta, part of the government's public-private partnership arm Projects Malta, is planning to deploy high-definition CCTV cameras with facial recognition software. It is claimed that these...

Year in year out, at budget time and beyond, we can only confirm how our economy is increasing the volume of services it provides. The aims that used to be set in long past years for industry to be...

Xarabank host Peppi Azzopardi has said that he could have easily left out Liam Debono from the show, only inviting police officer Simon Schembri, thus pleasing his audience, but he felt that he had a...

Please keep in mind that 'as we speak' many people are struggling with the brunt of loneliness, possibly a scourge of this era, the epoch that should have been more about networking, communication,...

I came to know Charles Zammit through my blog on the Malta Independent. He started to comment on the posts, I upload on social media. This is how we became acquainted. From the way Mr.Zammit...