Environment: The fear factor takes over
Wednesday, 26 August 2015, 09:16
Last update: about 10 years ago
The Spot the Jellyfish Campaign has announced that the annual fried egg jellyfish migration season has hit Malta again. Hundreds of the Cotylorhiza tuberculata have been spotted by the public,...
Migration: The new route into the EU
Tuesday, 25 August 2015, 08:47
Last update: about 10 years ago
Macedonian Border Police yesterday allowed thousands of migrants, predominantly from Syria, to cross the border into the Serbia. In the face of overwhelming numbers, the poor European nation...
Historic, not derelict, and a historic delay
Monday, 24 August 2015, 07:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
In 1998, just a few days before the early general election caused by Dom Mintoff’s defiance of the Alfred Sant government over the Cottonera waterfront rehabilitation, John Dalli who in that...
The enemy within
Sunday, 23 August 2015, 09:42
Last update: about 10 years ago
ISIS, in an incredibly short time span, has grown from a merry band of men with pie-in-the-sky ideals into a ruthless marauding horde committing the most unspeakable atrocities and giving no quarter...
Blatant disregard
Sunday, 23 August 2015, 09:40
Last update: about 10 years ago
I would like to draw your readers’ attention to the shockingly inconsiderate decision to turn a blue-badge parking spot into a public convenience. The photos show the corner of Triq il-Knisja...
The vilification of religion: the pinnacle of Malta’s freedoms
Sunday, 23 August 2015, 09:39
Last update: about 10 years ago
Piss Christ was a photograph by American photographer Andres Serrano taken in the late 1980s. Serrano, whose photography centres on his serious obsession with bodily fluids, produced the photo of a...
The Zonqor Point ‘compromise’
Sunday, 23 August 2015, 09:38
Last update: about 10 years ago
The Prime Minister has described plans he unveiled on Thursday to split the American University of Malta between a portion of the original site at Zonqor Point, Marsascala and part of Cospicua’s...
The teachings of a morally bankrupt government
Sunday, 23 August 2015, 07:22
Last update: about 10 years ago
Ivan Grech Mintoff
It is not easy to approach a stranger in the street and express your worries regarding the development of society and the effect it may have on the most important things in life. Yet, since my last...
On The way to the euro
Friday, 19 January 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
During the last few days we have been hearing more and more about the euro. Not only has Slovenia taken up this currency officially, but in the years to come so will the other nine members which joined the European Union in May 2004...