A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be one of the guest speakers at a Maritime Conference organized by the School of History at University College Cork. To my surprise, one of the speakers...

I really cannot understand our Prime Minister. On the one hand he pushes to sell our Maltese identity to people with money to spend through the infamous citizenship scheme that led to so much...

This country of ours is a riddle. I just can’t get around to understand what ticks in our collective deliberation.  One jiffy we are flooding telethon after telethon with cash,...

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...