The third scholastic year during the COVID-19 pandemic is now underway yet details on contact tracing procedures in schools remain scant.  The authorities have repeatedly said specialised teams, made up of trained staff from both th...

After sweeping Barcelona aside in their opening Champions League game, Bayern Munich want to live up their “top favourites” billing at home to Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday. “We want to win the Champions League and we have a team wi...

The Malta Union of Teachers has filed a data protection complaint after Education Ministry officials reportedly called the partners of teachers late on Tuesday, telling them to relay information about redeployment. This, the union sa...

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Manchester United cross paths with Villarreal once more on Wednesday in desperate need of a win to avoid another European embarrassment and ease the rising pressure on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Yellow Submarine emerged 11-10 winners ...

Roaring Voices, Teatru Salesjan’s youth theatre company, is presenting an original film titled In Arden at Spazju Kreattiv this evening. The film follows young Nick who thinks William Shakespeare’s plays are boring and irrelevan...

Lawyers at the law courts in Gozo will strike by not attending court sittings as of Thursday in protest over a litany of shortcomings which, they said, the government had failed to tackle despite being repeatedly urged to do so. In a...

US gymnastics icon Simone Biles said on Monday she should have quit “way before Tokyo” but held onto her Olympic dream even though it took a heavy emotional toll on her well-being. The 24-year-old Biles was expected to dominate a...

Ronald Koeman’s future as Barcelona coach may already be decided but the outcome of the next two games, starting with Benfica in the Champions League on Wednesday, could buy him some extra time. Three matches without a win and a pr...

Sheriff Tiraspol said they had not been overawed on their first trip to the mighty Real Madrid — and proved it by winning 2-1 late on in one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history. With all the talk of a European Super L...

Heritage Malta is holding a masterclass about the world of colour as seen through the eyes of a Portuguese knight on Wednesday.  Fra’ Diogo de Carvalho e Sampaio wrote a treatise on the nature of colour while based in Malta in th...

Ferry passengers, just like air passengers, are in terms of EU law entitled to various rights when a trip is delayed or cancelled by the carrier. EU Regulation 1177/2010 concerning the rights of passengers when travelling by sea and ...

Philippine boxing legend and 2022 presidential hopeful Manny Pacquiao said on Wednesday that he is hanging up his gloves after a glittering decades-long career in the ring. The eight-division world champion and senator, who has his s...

State primary and secondary schools reopened their doors for students on Wednesday morning, shrugging off fears of COVID-19 but facing uncertainty over teacher deployments. Road traffic congestion, which had been building up over the...

Malta BNI is holding its 10th Business Briefing event on the mandatory requirements and obligations of the Register of Beneficial Owners on October 6 at noon. Following that, Malta BNI will also be holding an international business ...

Maltese customs On September 1, Times of Malta published my letter, headed ‘Quaint Maltese customs’. It read as follows: “I spent most of lockdown researching and writing a book that I have finally finished (This is not self-ad...

For two decades, central bankers were less worried about rising inflation than about deflation. The financial crisis forced monetary authorities to reduce interest rates to historically low levels to encourage economic growth. This d...

Carmelo Abela’s Talking Point (September 27), illustrating Labour’s takeover of PBS, confirms what the Nationalist Party has been saying all along. For Labour, everything has a price but nothing has value. When Abela talks about ...

The Vincenzo Bonello exhibition at Il-Hagar museum in Victoria has been extended. The exhibition marks the 130th anniversary of Bonello’s birth (1891-1969) and features a number of designs for Gozitan churches, including Ta’ Pinu...

Birthday greetings Best wishes to a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother, FRIDA GRECH, on your 75th birthday. Your husband John, your sons Chris, his wife Catherine and grandsons Kyle and Kayne, Stephen, his wife Maria and grand-da...