Sliema is yet again experiencing an uncontrolled surge in new building developments. The local council’s resources are stretched to the limit and it is becoming obvious that we have lost control...

I was recently reminded of Aristotle’s concept of anagnorisis, that moment in a Greek tragedy where the protagonist makes an important discovery. For me, the recognition came with the impression...

The winds have dropped and the weather has settled, meaning that thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants are preparing to make the sea crossing to Europe from Libya. It is the end of May, and already...

One would have imagined that after all the controversy that had been raised over the citizenship by investment programme that the government would be going to extraordinary lengths to ensure the...

The Malta Independent yesterday published a story whereby the Health Department Inspectorate fell short of denying that it is not funding its own inspections to weed out smokers in enclosed...

Two months have elapsed since the Brussels attacks, in which 32 innocent lives were lost. Families of those lives lost were left picking up the pieces, their lives changing forever. There is no...

The construction industry in Malta has long been blighted by lacking standards. There was a time when many builders were exactly that, builders by trade for generation after generation. Many were from...

In exactly one month’s time, the people of the United Kingdom will be taking to the polls to decide on whether or not the country should continue to form part of the European Union. The...

It is most curious indeed why the individuals who have been implicated in the Panama Papers leaks, at least those who hold official positions within the government, do not just come out and publish...

The Committee of the Gozo Philatelic Society would like to express publicly its serious doubts about Maltapost’s decision to ban postage stamps from use on postal parcels. ...