Summer is a time for relaxation, for slowing down, for catching up, but for students who have just completed their compulsory education, it is a crucial time as they have to decide on their next step...

Life is too damn short, I think! Lost in dreams very late one night, in the peaceful company of a beautiful August moon, I asked myself: 'Are times better now or were we happier in the good old...

Five weeks before Germany's parliamentary elections, the Iron Lady of Germany and Europe, Angela Merkel, has been jolted with an opinion poll showing a 10 percentage point slide in her personal...

With each 'upgrading' at the Stock Exchange, the small man seems worse off. Not so long ago it was easy to read the selling/buying prices and amounts of shares on offer in print. This has changed. Now...

Seventy-five years ago, precisely on 30th June, 1942, in the middle of the Second World War II, Saint Leopold Mandic died in Padua. Saint Leopold became known as the Apostle of Confession and of...

The last issue of The Malta Independent on Sunday revealed how residents of Munxar were up in arms over plans by a private operator to run a manure storage and processing facility within close...

Partit Demokratiku this week said 70 valleys should be listed as public domain areas, meaning they would be afforded special protection status. This is a very sensible and necessary thing to do....

As this newsroom has editorialised over the last two weeks, justice must not only be done but it also must be seen to have been done. That adage holds particularly true when it comes to the...

A society, such as ours, is an interlinked network which should work fine, but which, when one or more of the links are broken, simply does not function. The experience of many of us, not to say...

We may not be paying enough attention to what the people out there are saying. Let us take some opinions, or reactions, from people who wrote in comments on our own website over the recent...