"When I was still a young boy, in the 1950s, the organisation of the Good Friday Procession was the responsibility of the Malta Catholic Action Movement, led by Rev Dun Andrew Muscat. My father was...

In the fourth quarter of 2015, the highest annual increases in hourly labour costs for the whole economy were registered in Romania (+11.4%), the Czech Republic (+8.6%), Latvia (+7.7%), Bulgaria...

In the European Union, the amount of municipal waste generated per person in 2014 amounted to 475 kg, whereas in Malta the average generated waste was 6oo kg. The European figure is down by 10%...

The Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Deborah Schembri, said this morning that Lands Department employees are being consulted about the ongoing reform, which will see the department become an...

A man who claimed he was carrying a bomb in Marsa yesterday was handed a three-month suspended sentence and warned by a magistrate to stay away from trouble. Dimitar Mirchesti, a 31-year-old from...

The largest haul of smuggled cigarettes ever discovered in Malta was seized by the Customs department yesterday. Approximately 25 million cigarettes, worth about Lm20 million and believed to be bogus, were discovered at the Freeport Terminal in Malta...

The government has decided to appoint former minister Josef Bonnici as the Malta representative on the European Union’s Court of Auditors, informed sources told The Malta Independent....

Stephen Calleja has been appointed editor of The Malta Independent Daily. He takes over as from today’s issue from Fr Noel Grima, who has been appointed editor of The Malta Independent On Sunday....

Lombard Bank improved its pre-tax profit by 24 per cent on an annualised basis, the bank’s annual general meeting heard yesterday evening....

European Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom said the Maltese government is bound to close down the Maghtab landfill by 1 May....