Tony Mifsud  Malta is this year celebrating 100 years of aviation history. In my 45 years of aviation and air cargo logistics I have come across colleagues who laid the blocks for the...

Half the country will be casting their vote in the upcoming local council elections this weekend. The campaign has, of course, doubled up with the hunting referendum, which has, to an extent,...

As part of the Gozo Easter Festival Xagħra ended in grand style with a great manifestation with the statue of the Risen Christ followed by a pageant. Food stalls were selling traditional...

This week is the final week of campaigning pending the referendum poll which will be held on Saturday. The vote is the culmination of years of campaigning by environmentalists and members of the...

On the eve of the International Spring Orchestra Festival, The Malta Independent on Sunday speaks to Karl Fiorini to learn more about the event  We're just a couple of days from the opening...

Food - and drink,  to a lesser extent, assail me at every turn. I have to say that I do not try too hard to avoid them. I simply love food... and can find few excuses not to turn up to those...

In a way, it is quite appropriate that this year Holy Week falls during the campaign for local elections. The buzz one that is usually associated with an election campaign matches the one that is...

A quarter of a century of practically uninterrupted rule by the previous administration left Gozo a peripheral territory, quite literally an island in Malta's backwater. Its per capita gross domestic...

During the campaign for the referendum on spring hunting, all I have heard is arguments based on bird migration, bird breeding, illegalities, derogations and the countryside. Very little has been said...

There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the Maltese islands are becoming an increasingly overcrowded country where manifold needs and interests compete for the extremely limited resources that our...