By April 2017, the country had already faced many scandals by the government of Joseph Muscat.  Each one was placed on a weighing scale and sometimes, just once here and there, the scales...

Our country’s extensive history has provided for a large number of buildings and monuments that form a central part of our country’s rich heritage.  Just this week, I had the...

Earning good money is a good thing. All of us deserve living a good life. All business enterprises and indeed many individuals in Malta are profit-driven and pursue profits aggressively. That’s...

I hope that in parallel with the magisterial and police inquiries which were being carried out concerning the horrible accident which occurred in the tourist bus a week and a half ago, an...

Pia Zammit could not have said it better – “Malta is not a normal country”.  It is like living a Netflix series. Local press, international press, all reporting and seeking to...

Young people remain a highly contested group within our society. There has always been the risk of instrumentalisation as young people have often been (mis)understood as simply there to engender...

For every memory of a party during my childhood, there is also a memory of balloons. They were simply a big part of it and I think most people have a similar memory. Balloons were fun and they gave...

Data recently issued by Eurostat regarding labour costs in the EU show that in Malta, spending on workers and employees (excluding those in agriculture and public administration) is less than half the...

The spectre of a concerted war from the West against Syria has been in the air for quite some time now but never as tangible as at present. Yet, I am not convinced that the international...

Rachel Attard speaks to Health Minister Chris Fearne about the new amendments to the IVF law, which have raised no small amount of controversy. Fearne was interviewed for The Malta Independent’s...