"One day we will see our pets in the eternity of Christ," said Pope Paul the VI (died 1978) to a disconsolate boy who had lost his pet recently. Since then we have had several theological...

On assuming my watch as Gozo Minister twenty-two months ago, I knew full well what I was letting myself in for. It is no exaggeration to say that it was a moribund island that I inherited from my...

I am writing this piece very early on 1st January, literally at the dawn of a new year. 2014 is already history but is still very fresh in our minds. It will therefore be a good thing to look back for...

A report commissioned by the government back in April 2013 and drawn up and presented by the Ombudsman, the Auditor General and the Electoral Commissioner in December of that same year, has...

Outgoing Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa has said that the biggest threat that his coutrny faces is from the chaos in neighbouring Libya. Tunisia has had a few painful spasms since dictator...

This Malta Community Chest Fund has become somewhat of a Cash for Citizens Scheme to compete with the Cash for Passports Scheme, when we go to Midnight Mass at St. John's co-Cathedral and get turned...

The incoming year begins, as it usually does, with a massive collective hangover and with economists all over the world competing to see who got whose predictions most wrong. As we stand today,...

On New Year's eve, Malta's policymakers and high officials gathered to exchange greetings. The Prime Minister also issued his message for New Year. Dr Muscat's message began by saying that Malta...

Tonight is the culmination of the Christmas holidays as revellers head out to close 2014 and usher in 2015. The weather has turned as a cold snap descended over Malta and that might deter some...

In yesterday's edition of The Malta Independent, we published a story about the rapidly deteriorating state of the site of abandoned Flower Power Garden Centre. In short, the complex was...