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...

    There's not enough discussion about "the poor". Indeed even the usage of that expression has become rare, almost as if we believe it sounds too religious and hardly a precise...

Her father is a drug runner and her mother was married at 15. The girl, Desiree Mariottini, just 16 years old, became a drug addict. Her home, in Cisterna in Latina, south of Rome, was...

As progressives, we tend not to look back at past achievements but instead focus on building the conditions to achieve the present and future we believe in. However, while preparing this seventh...

The 2019 Budget is conspicuous not by what it says but by what it has left unsaid. In his customary long speech, Minister Edward Scicluna opted to make no reference to the major challenges that...