"Let me start by saying that I am not really "a diary person". But I keep notes or I would forget half my appointments without them. This Diary is based on those rough notes.   December...

The farming industry is, in many ways, one of the oldest industries on the planet. Agriculture has helped the world develop – from the early days of cultivation thousands of years ago,...

We’ve already had a whirlwind of a year and as August was approaching, I started to look forward to what in the UK is referred to as the silly season – a month or so during the summer...

In my capacity as legal counsel to the Human Health Alliance I would like to reply to a number of statements made by Dr Michael Briguglio in his article entitled Covid Scepticism that repeatedly...

This Maltese summer has heralded three separate heat waves, with temperatures rising above the 40 degrees Celsius mark becoming more and more of a frequent occurrence. Many have found it...

It was exactly a month ago, on 11 July, that we had written a leader decrying the situation at the Corradino Correctional Facility. That leader was written following the death of a 29-year-old...

The president of the Labour Party, Ramona Attard, told The Malta Independent on Sunday in an interview that the State which was under investigation in the inquiry into the assassination of Daphne...

Marine debris is a well-documented issue globally and locally with sobering statistics such as 244,000 metric tons of trash floating on the surface, and another 8.5 million metric tons of waste...

In the desert near Jericho, a man lies dying. He and his wife had been with a caravan of traders, many of them relatives. But when they realised the man was seriously ill, the rest of the caravans...

Review by Joseph Anthony Debono Dr Mark Sammut Sassi is a man of rare erudition. Flying at the fall of Dusk (FaFoD), his latest work, soars high on the wings of multiple disciplines, supported by...