On the face of it, it seemed strange at first that the population of Malta is being called out to protest against a bill that will declare public feasts that fall on a weekend no feasts at all....

Mr A. A. Camilleri writes again (TMIS, 2 January) in answer to my response (TMIS, 26 December) to his letter (TMIS, 19 December) criticising an article on home heating and the price of kerosene penned by Ms Caruana Galizia (TMIS, 12 December). ...

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....

Today, thousands of people will be glued to their television sets, watching the hugely popular charity marathon, Strina....

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 ...

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...