Last week, the competition watchdog made a big thing about the insurance market. As we reported on our front page last week, the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority came down like a...

In having pressed charges against a BirdLife activist for trespassing in Miżieb, the FKNK hunting lobby has ended up shooting itself in the foot.  And by having chosen to open the can...

It is no mean feat for Angela Merkel to make her fourth electoral victory in Germany’s election. The scientist from East Germany, a former member of the Communist Party, now stands to have...

Malta Artisan Markets will be kicking off October in style with 35+ market stalls setting up under the arches at Fort St Elmo on Sunday, 1 October at 10am. The market will host a variety of small...

The main objective of the Oratory, better known as 'Salesjani' in Sliema, is to carry out activities aimed at promoting holistic education of young people.  All members are helped to understand...

Are your paintings an invitation to the spiritual journey? In my mind the paintings have become conceptual, providing a point of departure, a provocation, an invitation to take this inward...

It is known that those who write history make history, meaning that not all histories are necessarily true, but, more significantly, neither are they complete. The majority of historical narratives...

I have been promising myself a visit to this new Museum since it opened in June last year. Well, I finally got an opportunity to go when I received an invitation from the Turkish ambassador to The...

After the lull of summer a new scholastic year often begins with excited trepidation for school administrators, educators, students and parents. Only last week a group of educators coming from the...

The Malta Independent has on several occasions reported about the sorry state of our environment and how our beaches, valleys and iconic skylines are being devastated.  A few months back we also...