Three recent events warrant and beg for comment from the man in the street and common mortals since it is probable that such people are very likely to be most involved. ...

May I say well done to Tony Lane, the UK journalist who lives here and who spoke to the Maltese so honestly about illegal immigration in his letter: “Is it time for Malta to sink or swim?” (TMIS, 31 August). I hope that all of us will listen to his call....

Launching the Independence celebrations, the Nationalist Party held a business breakfast last week with education as its main theme. Along with the environment and employment ...

Last month, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules. In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody – not Europe, not the United States, China, India, ...

Local councils are sometimes slated for not doing enough work, or remaining intransigent in the face of issues that directly impact their zone of influence....

Ordinance 135 published in the Malta Government Gazette of 9 February, 2006 states that the “once-only grant on the purchase of photovoltaic systems for domestic use and on the purchase of thermal roof insulation ...

I have just learned (TMID, 2 September) that the Munxar local council is celebrating the festa for “Gozitan dialects”. This is a dishonour and pure ignorance for Maltese to celebrate such a thing. ...

According to the report in The Malta Independent (4 September) Tancred Tabone, president of the Malta Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise, believes that a submarine cable link to the European energy grid through Sicily ...

Well, well, well. Have I got news for Daphne: In the village of Mgarr (Malta, that is; the one in Gozo is a port), where I grew up and lived till I migrated to Australia, one could observe changes in some aspects of the Mosta village dialect ...

Figures released to The Malta Independent by WasteServ – and which have been published over the past week – show a steady rise in the amount of recyclable waste that is being collected from households every Tuesday....