The Local Councils Association has come up with a proposal to gradually eliminate door-to-door waste collection. Instead, what it is suggesting is having a network of public waste containers, above...

Last week, The Malta Independent carried a short story about how Malta’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations was watching a football game while she was attending a meeting on...

This week represents the last week Angela Merkel will remain in office as Germany’s chancellor.  Next Sunday, German citizens will go to the polls to elect a new government. All of the...

There was a time when the Labour Party shunned Independence Day and all that was associated with it. It had even gone as far as to deem it to be so insignificant that it removed 21 September from...

For the last two years, we have had a substantial number of teenagers failing in core subjects such as basic Maltese, Maths and English. For the year 2020, Malta had the highest percentage of early...

Words by Victor Mallia-Milanes There are two ways of approaching Our Lord - one is to learn about Him, the other is to experience Him directly. The first is to know who He is by reading what is...

When she had more than enough, the minister's wife paid a surprise visit to the house of her husband's personal assistant. She found her coming out of the shower, with just a diaphanous negligee...

Both the Nationalist Party and the Labour Party held mass political rallies on Monday evening, on the eve of Independence Day, and both parties pledged very different things.  Prime Minister and...

When I was young, watching Italian television, there was a deodorant advert with the slogan "Per l’uomo che non deve chiedere. Mai." This can be translated as "for the man who doesn’t need...

Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has kept Alexander Dalli in charge of the prison, despite the serious concerns over his style of leadership. 13 deaths have occurred in prison over the past...