Around 86,500 ‘vulnerable’ people will soon receive an additional cost of living adjustment payment, the government said earlier this week. A total of €16.2 million will be...

Figures published by the National Statistics Office earlier this week show that more than two million people visited Malta in the first 10 months of this year. This was more or less 435,000 short...

Last Sunday afternoon a significant number of Maltese people marched peacefully through the streets of Valletta to voice their concerns in respect of the proposed amendments to Malta’s legal...

On Monday, Parliament discussed a motion presented by the Nationalist Party that aimed to push the government into refunding what was “stolen” in energy bills in the past years. The...

Chief Justice Emeritus Vincent De Gaetano told The Malta Independent on Sunday that an overhaul of the criminal court procedures should be considered in the long term. He explains that simply...

In line with its objectives and mission statement, fostering the promotion, diffusion and safeguarding of Maltese culture, the Alfred Mizzi Foundation has recently advocated to support as main sponsor...

State agencies for social workers are having to resort to 'quick fixes' to address the significant shortage of social workers in the country, by bringing in unqualified persons for the role, PN MP...

There is so much that is being said and written about abortion these days. The subject has been brought to the fore once again after the government presented an amendment to the law which speaks...

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Perhaps as it currently reads, the proposed amendment to our abortion law leaves too wide a discretion to the medical practitioner which might be ripe for abuse. When is it justified to terminate a...