At the beginning of the new year, Europe is caught in a pincer movement at both ends of its south. On the one hand, in Greece, there is the likely winner of the 25 January snap election. The...

Ched Evans, 26, is a British former Sheffield United striker and convicted rapist. He received a five-year prison sentence, of which he served two and a half years (he was released in October), for...

2014 is gone. It's been a great year for Standard Publications Ltd, home of The Malta Independent on Sunday, The Daily and online portal, The Malta Business Weekly, along with FIRST, Taste &...

The government is apparently worried about parking problems being faced by practically all localities in Malta and Gozo. In fact, during a press conference by Transport Minister Joe Mizzi in Rabat...

People who, like me, have had ink in their blood since they were born and have grown up reading, writing and loving newspapers, know only too well that the print media has been on a nosedive for the...

This Malta Community Chest Fund has become somewhat of a Cash for Citizens Scheme to compete with the Cash for Passports Scheme, when we go to Midnight Mass at St. John's co-Cathedral and get turned...

Last year ended with a widespread feeling that Malta had gone back to the 1980s. In the case of the environment, there is no question. There is the same government indifference and the same...

If the new Police Commissioner wishes to be taken seriously in terms of his declared commitment to brook no nonsense from anybody, the first thing he has got to do is launch a proper, thorough...

  So 2014 is practically over and done with.    Evaluations and round-ups being done. Auld Lang Syne soon cheered.  Countdown before long completed....