It is not without trepidation that the people of these Islands have rung in the New Year. As they crossed the threshold and face a future whose outlines are already determined, they know that hard realities await them...

In his regular column published in The Malta Independent yesterday, economist Alfred Mifsud made some significant points that merit attention....

Sometimes it has to be a tragedy to make us aware how fragile we are as a nation....

I read with interest the position taken by the unions at the MCESD meeting regarding public holidays falling on a Saturday or a Sunday....

I am morally convicted that l-orizzont and Co. are very, very, very pleased that L-Istrina has broken all previous records!...

Could not the heavenly message that the angels did sing: “Peace on earth to Men of goodwill” be given a chance to be fulfilled in our days if Man, with heart and soul and mind, did make a now-or-never gigantic effort to grasp the occasion of this paralysi...

It is not just because on Christmas Eve one has to try to be positive. It is mainly because I do believe that, for all the economic travails that are finally widely acknowledged, we can, if we really want to, return to a sustainable growth path within a r...

Stephen Cachia, AD secretary general (TMID 22 December), works out his arguments in favour of giving AD the sixth (observer) seat in the European Parliament by applying a quota that assumed that the election was for five seats! This is a contradiction in ...

Over the last five years, rugby has become an established sport within the island and made Malta proud in international competitions. One has just to mention 11 victories, one draw and two losses over a stretch of four years – surely a record....

The mechanism of social dialogue, in existence in Malta since 1990 and legally institutionalised in 2001 through the MCESD Act, offers a platform where different interests of workers and employers are recognised and collective representation of their inte...