We are nearly two weeks into the campaign leading up to the local councils elections on 11 April, but the Nationalist Party does not seem to have noticed yet. While the Labour Party is...

Watching the news bulletin and the discussion programme which preceded it on TVM the night before last, I heard along with many thousands that Queen Mary University (or as the prime minister and the...

A couple of weeks before the 2013 general elections, in collaboration with the Office of the Commissioner for Children, I had published a report on the agreeable level of involvement of children in...

Last Thursday, I attended the business breakfast organized by The Malta Business Weekly, where the local business community had the opportunity to listen to what Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil had...

Our culture has not written off the importance of being punctual. I value and give importance to punctuality. I hate turning up late for any meeting or any event of whatever nature. However,...

At 4.15pm last Friday, The Malta Independent newsroom received a press call from the Department of Information. At 4.45pm, just 30 minutes later, Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi was to give a press...

Let me try to keep it simple. To compund climate change, classical bloody wars, accompanied by energy wars, spiritual-cum-religious wars and financial battels are vying for the title which can wreak...

It was only a matter of time before the hunters slipped up. They claim that the majority of them are law-abiding and non-violent (a bit rich, when you claim a passion for killing things with a gun),...

The Pyrotechnic Association is supporting the Yes vote not because it sees a threat to the Maltese festa, but because their aspirations to have uncontrolled fireworks are perceived to be under threat....

We could say that this winter has been particularly tough weather wise.  We have had heavy downpours, really strong winds and very low temperatures for quite long periods. The meteorologists...