We are approaching the start of the scholastic year.  Later this month, thousands of children and youths up and down the country will return to their classrooms – be it at primary school,...

As summer moves into September and begins to draw to a close, the Parliamentary season comes ever closer.  The key appointment in the House’s calendar is the Budget, which will set out the...

It was in December 1989, on what will remembered as one of the coldest and stormy weekends ever to hit Malta, that then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met then US President George H. W. Bush in...

The NGO Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar brought to public attention a plan to build offices, meeting rooms, a shop and a restaurant on public, open space between Gzira Gardens and the yacht marina...

A survey conducted by the Faculty for Social Wellbeing revealed that 54.6% of people have a sense of loneliness. This was an 11% increase over a similar survey conducted in 2019. That is a...

The Highway Code is set to be updated. This news was revealed by the senior inspector of the police traffic branch, Nicholas Vella, during an interview with The Malta Independent on...

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We have been told that when Prime Minister Robert Abela was on holiday this summer, and on other occasions, he did not pass on his duties as Malta’s head of government to the...

A new crowdfunding campaign sponsors a trek on the Camino de Santiago, to raise funds for young athletes as part of The Jonathan Chetcuti Programme. From 7 September - the day after the close of...

Rehearsals are in full swing for the Malta Amateur Dramatic Club's (MADC) annual One-Act Play Festival. Now in its 43rd edition, the festival is the perfect platform for anyone aspiring to break onto...