Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà has insisted in an interview that he gets 'absolutely no' interference from the Office of the Prime Minister. He also reiterated a recent remark that he believes that, based on current evidence, every...

MUSIC SummerDaze Malta Malta's largest music festival continues today with a performance by British DJ and record producer Sigala at Café del Mar in Qawra. The week-long festival runs until Wednesday, August 17 with the main events ...

A 25-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured while another three people suffered slight injuries in a collision involving three cars and a motorcycle on Saturday evening. The police said the crash happened in Triq Villabate, Żab...

Homeless focus L’Osservatore Romano’s August 5 edition devoted its main front-page story to the plight of the homeless. “Persons without a fixed abode, homeless, clochards, those without a roof on their head.... Pope Francis de...

Back in February when he took charge of Ħamrun Spartans, Branko Nisevic’s task was to stabilise the team and make sure to lead them to European football. A run of seven positive results from the remaining eight games in the domes...

I refuse to allow myself to join in with the anti-Manchester United masses who were pointing in the general direction of Old Trafford last Sunday and giggling profusely. An opening day home defeat to a Brighton team who had never won...

Suffering: a problem or a mystery? A problem may be solved, a mystery can only be contemplated. A problem concerns solving, by means of reasoning, concluding and making a judgement. Mystery concerns seeing, intuition and insights. Bi...

Former prime minister Alfred Sant has joined the growing chorus of concern about building development in Gozo, while also voicing his opposition to an airport in Gozo and a tunnel linking Malta to its sister island. In a Facebook pos...

20th Sunday in ordinary time. Today’s readings: Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10; Psalm 40:2, 3, 4, 18; Hebrews 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53 Elie Weisel’s memoir Night. Elie Weisel’s memoir Night, recognised as a bedrock in the genre of Holocaus...

The latest NSO survey has confirmed that Sliema has the highest population density in Malta at 15,167 per square kilometre. The average density for Malta stands at 1,649 persons per square kilometre. The EU’s average is of 109 pers...

If Labour made Malta rich, why are there more poor people? A total of 85,369 are at risk of poverty. That’s 17 per cent of the population. One in every six lives in a household earning less than €9,744 annually. No household can ...

Every so often, political parties or groups of people appropriate words or phrases. Divorced from their broader, original meaning, those words come to mean something highly specific. In Malta, one of the words which has been making t...

Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has made it clear that a cost-cutting exercise to reduce the public deficit is under way.  In a recent announcement he urged his fellow ministers to find €200 million in budget cuts. Apart from cost...

Global equities rallied strongly since the mid-June lows, with cyclicals off their relative lows. During this period investors have generally digested weaker economic prints, signs of possible escalation from Russia in terms of gas f...

The Consumer Affairs Act sets out specific rules with regard to the obligations of sellers on how goods sold to consumers should be supplied. It is imperative that traders are aware of these obligations to avoid unnecessary disputes ...

As the Maltese flock to Gozo this weekend, they will be confronted by evidence that Malta’s flawed economic model is also moving to the sister island. They will see for themselves how the government seems to have its economic strat...

In 1806, Napoleon, by decree, abolished the festivity of the Assumption of Our Lady celebrated according to the Catholic calendar on August 15. Actually, that day also happened to be Napoleon’s birthday. What irritated  him most, ...

Everyone needs a holiday and the days around August 15 are a traditional break for all those that can afford having one. Yet here I am writing this and here you are reading it. Where’s Robert Abela? I did a quick survey of newspape...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Sunday. The Sunday Times of Malta reports that cab drivers working through ride-hailing platforms are banding together to lobby for better working conditions as they fear the...

As a rule of thumb, one should never trust the media reporting on statistics. More so opinion writers, especially when such statistics are blatantly reconfigured to bolster a writer’s sense of self-styled moral superiority. Lately,...