Parliament will convene tomorrow after a long hot summer holiday. This time round, our Members of Parliament will meet and make a solemn pledge to the Maltese electorate that in their endeavours to...

George Orwell once wrote: "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and...

By the time it elects two new deputy leaders and the rest of its leadership structure, the Nationalist Party will have lost a good six months out of a five-year legislature. New PN leader Adrian...

In having pressed charges against a BirdLife activist for trespassing in Miżieb, the FKNK hunting lobby has ended up shooting itself in the foot.  And by having chosen to open the can...

It is no mean feat for Angela Merkel to make her fourth electoral victory in Germany’s election. The scientist from East Germany, a former member of the Communist Party, now stands to have...

After the lull of summer a new scholastic year often begins with excited trepidation for school administrators, educators, students and parents. Only last week a group of educators coming from the...

The Malta Independent has on several occasions reported about the sorry state of our environment and how our beaches, valleys and iconic skylines are being devastated.  A few months back we also...

I refer to the caption story concerning the sacks filled with rubble near the skip (TMIS, 4 March) and would like to draw your attention to the following:...

It was a normal evening on 3 March in Qala when the news that Bernard Curmi had passed away shocked the village and Qalin around the world. To properly understand who Bernard Curmi...

On behalf of all long time Irish residents in the Maltese islands, we would like to wish our visiting tourists, our sons and daughters of Saint Patrick (and...