Four of Malta’s leading local supermarkets have come together following a merger earlier on in this year, the group said in a statement. These supermarkets will now be trading under one brand name, while underlining their long-standing promise ...

The Pembroke-Ta’ Qali underground tunnel, a Water Services Corporation (WSC) project, has reached its most important milestone yet with the completion of a third and last phase of work, the government said today.Spanning 9.5km, this tunnel conn...

A building contractor has been denied bail after being charged with causing grievous injury to an employee who suffered spinal injuries in a fall.Glen Farrugia, 31, one of two shareholders and a director of the company J&G Farrugia Contractors, w...

Environment Minister Aaron Farrugia said that he joins all those who expressed disappointment over the state of San Anton Garden, and has ordered immediate works to commence.He said that it has, for many years, needed work on structural damage on the...

For a second year running, the scholastic year has started amid chaos, confusion and unpreparedness. Over the past few days, many educators who do not usually teach their own class received ‘transfer’ orders and were assigned to different...

The Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has accepted Moviment Graffitti's request to suspend works on the ITS site in Pembroke for the duration of the appeal filed by local councils, organisations and residents, the NGO said on Facebook."This me...

Malta Properties Company p.l.c. has entered into a promise of sale agreement to sell a complex in Birkirkara to a company in which Gozitan developer Joseph Portelli is a shareholder. By virtue of an agreement dated 28 September 2021, BKE Property Com...

The PN has hit out at Steward Health Care, challenging them to provide audits and receipts to prove that it has invested in the three hospitals.The party was reacting to a statement made earlier today by Steward Health Care.The Nationalist Party said...

Malta's first three year anti-racism strategy was launched on Thursday as part of the EU's anti-racism action plan for 2020 to 2025.The strategy comprises of twenty two measures that aim to confront and eliminate discrimination on an individual, syst...

PN MP and former leader Adrian Delia has been accused of deliberately omitting “key projects and investments” made in the last years in the three hospitals which are currently run by Steward Health Care after the granting of a controversi...

Government minister Carmelo Abela has opposed a request by Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi, to have three men accused of the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination testify in a defamation case over the HSBC hold-up of 2010.Azzopardi had asked the court ...

The Nationalist Party is pledging 15 days of paternity leave to new fathers and two weeks bereavement leave for parents following the loss of a child, including for miscarriages.The Nationalist Party has pledged five new initiatives that go beyond wh...

The Planning Authority Board has approved an application to turn a disused quarry in Aħrax into a facility for off-roading events.The site is on the ‘Barriera Ta' L-Ahrax’. This application would include the shifting of existing eart...

Taking the lead after just 11 seconds wasn't enough for Napoli to avoid a loss in the second round of Europa League group-stage matches on Thursday.Eljif Elmas netted the early goal for Napoli — the second-quickest ever in UEFA's second-tier co...

The number of new Covid-19 cases rose to 22 on Thursday, up from just eight the previous day, but the number of patients in hospital is now down to nine, health authorities said.Two of the patients in hospital are in intensive care.There were no deat...

At 2.30pm, the police were informed that its assistance was required at the Blue Lagoon in Comino.A 28-year-old Nigerian man was in difficulty while swimming. He was taken to the Mgarr port and then on to the Gozo General Hospital. The man was seriou...

New visuals for a prosed hotel in Delimara have been released. The visuals are part of a planning Application that had been filed to change the design for the Delimara hotel that was, controversially, approved back in 2018 with a different layout.The...

A serving London police officer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman he tricked into his car using his police identification and COVID-19 laws. Wayne Couzens, 4...

A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant Thursday after skipping the planned start of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder, officials said.The 9...

A total of 174,096 passengers made use of the fast ferry service between Malta and Gozo in the months of June, July and August 2021, Transport Malta told The Malta Independent. The fast ferry service kicked off around five months ago and is oper...

Following road work controversies between the Swieqi local council and Infrastructure Malta regarding the exits for St. Andrew’s road, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects said the decision for the next phase of the proje...

The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) has called on the government to drastically reduce or completely remove the Covid-19 protocols, especially for the hospitality sector.The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) was referrin...

We were equally shocked and outraged at the shocking story which we reported on Tuesday, wherein an injured migrant worker was found on a pavement in Mellieha.The worker – a 32-year-old from Ghana – was allegedly dumped there by his boss,...

A court in southern Italy on Thursday convicted the former mayor of a tiny town dubbed “the town of welcome” of aiding illegal immigration and sentenced him to 13 years and two months in prison.Domenico “Mimmo” Lucano was also...

A biker was grievously injured on Wednesday evening in a crash in the Santa Venera tunnels, the police said.The accident, which occurred at 8.30pm, involved a Honda SH150, and a Mazda Demio, driven by a 29-year-old man of Zebbug.The biker, a 50-year-...

She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini’s fascists, ground steel for the U.S. war effort and advocated for her disabled daugh...

A police investigator has told the court compiling evidence against a director at Pilatus bank accused of money laundering that there were no suspicious personal transactions which involved her.The case against Claude Anne Sant Fournier, who is facin...

Qatar will host a Formula One race for the first time in November and for 10 years from 2023.Qatar takes the remaining slot left vacant on this year's reshuffled calendar. The race will start under floodlights at 6 p.m. local time on Nov. 21 at ...

A migrant worker who was left for dead on a pavement in Mellieha after a construction site accident said he was told to tell the police that he had been hit by a car.Jaiteh Lamin told Times of Malta that, after the accident he was placed on a plank o...

A woman and a child were rescued by members of the Civil Protection Department after they found themselves in difficulty while swimming in Marsalforn, the CPD said on its Facebook page.The rescue occurred on Tuesday, but photos of CPD members perform...

The Prime Minister has told a court that he is proud of his secretariat’s handling of a controversial migrant rescue case last year but denied direct involvement.The case revolves around Malta’s coordination of a rescue of migrants in int...

A woman who was mauled to death by two dogs last year was found with parts of her body missing, a court heard on Wednesday.Inez Galea, 95, died of her injuries after being attacked by two pitbulls belonging to her grandson, in September 2020. Andre G...

The construction industry should remain an economic motor but it should not be the only one, Prime Minister Robert Abela said Wednesday.He was speaking during a pre-budget consultation meeting with the Malta Developers Association.Abela said the gove...

The Environment and Resources Authority has found a Planning Control application to create a new street and change part of the zone to residential, 'objectionable'.The site is currently ODZ.The application had been filed proposing the creation of a n...

A contractor named Glen Farrugia has been questioned by police over an incident where an injured migrant worker was dumped on the pavement instead of being taken to hospital for treatment.It is understood that Farrugia, one of the directors of J&...

PN MP Karol Aquilina was cleared of charges relating to alleged dangerous driving by a court on Wednesday after a magistrate found that accusations that Aquilina had tried to run over a policeman were untrue.Aquilina said on Facebook that he had been...

While Cristiano Ronaldo is keeping up his record-setting Champions League level to the end, Barcelona has become barely recognizable as a European power.Ronaldo struck deep into stoppage time to lift Manchester United to a 2-1 come-from-behind win ov...

Twenty-four hours after a migrant worker who fell two storeys on a construction site and was allegedly abandoned on a pavement a distance away, the Malta Developers Association condemned the incident which, it said, “threw bad light on the indu...

The government must act on issues like the power station and hospitals privatisation deals if we really want to get off the FATF greylist, UĦM Chief Executive Josef Vella said on Wednesday.He was speaking during the launch of the union’s p...

Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg said the government is appealing the €100,000 fine for uprooting some trees from the ta’ Qali project on the grounds that the project is resolving ERA’s “big ...

Eight new Covid-19 cases were recorded today, while the number of patients in hospital is down to 11 from yesterday's 13, the health authorities said today.Two of these patients are in intensive care.The last time that the number of new cases was in ...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has said that Malta's political landscape regarding the height of buildings should be in accordance with the 2006 local plans, but "we should not create a system of exaggerated development.""Although rights should be p...

Labour MEP Alfred Sant implied today that the Church knew that the land it sold in Gharghur was to be developed into a block of apartments.Writing on Facebook, the former PL leader said that he was surprised by the Church’s attitude on the land...

An appeals court has confirmed that John Bundy was unfairly dismissed as Public Broadcasting Services CEO, but slashed compensation owed to him by half.In a judgment delivered this morning by Mr Justice Lawrence Mintoff, the court ordered a total of ...

A Media Breakfast Meeting hosted by Novartis Pharma Services Inc., Representative Office, Malta took place on Tuesday, September 28, with the participation of local media representatives.Novartis Pharma Services Inc., Representative Office, Malta, of...

The Malta Union of Teachers this morning wrote to the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner to file a data breach complaint for the actions carried out by the Ministry for Education.In a statement, the MUT said that yesterday eve...

Pfizer has submitted research to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in children but the shots may not be available until November.The company said Tuesday it provided health regulators with data from a ...

A rusty, overloaded fishing boat carrying 686 people docked on the island of Lampedusa in the single biggest arrival of migrants in Italy in years, amid new diplomatic efforts by Mediterranean governments to seek more European help in handling migran...

Economy Minister Silvio Schembri announced on Wednesday that an iGaming Council will be set up under the auspices of Gaming Malta which will include key industry operators and will serve as a forum to encourage direct communication with government pa...

Lawyers working in the Gozitan courts have given notice that from tomorrow they will cease to attend sittings in Gozo over severe administrative shortcomings.In a statement, the lawyers said that they had been trying since June 2021 to attract the at...

Employees of St. John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation were left without salary and not paid on time in breach of the collective agreement, prompting UĦM Voice of the Workers to issue an industrial directive. This was not the first time such seri...

Motorsports enthusiasts have long been calling for a race-track in Malta, with electoral manifestos over recent years pointing to the eventual creation of one.The fact that the announcement came so close to an election is seen as a vote-grabbing exer...

A biker was grievously injured on Tuesday afternoon in a traffic accident in Birkirkara, the police said Wednesday.The accident happened in Fleur-de-Lys Road at 12.30pm.It involved a Toyota Passo, driven by a 29-year-old man of Birkirkara, and a Yama...

The police are questioning a Maltese man in connection with investigations into an incident that allegedly saw a migrant worker dumped on the side of the road by his boss after having fallen from a height of around two storeys at a construction site....

Don Varnadoe spent months watching videos about train trips on his office computer in preparation for a special cross-country vacation to celebrate his and Margie Varnadoe's 50th wedding anniversary.He phoned his co-workers in coastal Georgia, where ...

Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne said that the government is close to reaching an agreement with Steward Health Care over the revision of certain aspects of the concession agreement.Speaking to the press, Fearne said that the government had initiat...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has condemned a shocking incident involving a migrant worker who was injured at work and dumped on a pavement which happened earlier today.“This attitude will not be tolerated under any circumstances,” Abela sa...

President George Vella has commented about the news that a migrant worker was allegedly dumped on the side of the road by his boss, after the worker suffered a construction site injury.President Vella said: "I hope they find the person responsible an...

The abortion legalisation debate in Malta should continue without being politicised, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Tuesday, while adding that the rights of the unborn have to be voiced."Abortion should not have political controversy," he said.H...

A number of Covid-19 restrictions are going to be relaxed next week, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne announced on Tuesday.For restaurants, bars and band clubs (kazini) that voluntarily accept only fully vaccinated people in possession of a recogni...

A video showing some sort of carcass that washed ashore near surfside in Sliema is making the rounds on social media.The video shows some sort of fish carcass, possibly a shark, washed up on the shore as a few people look on.

Prime Minister Robert Abela has assured that, while FATF president Marcus Pleyer "insisted" their dialogue remains confidential, work is "ongoing" and he (Abela) promises that Malta's rule of law will be reformed.Ending tax evasion and monitoring of ...

Lionel Messi scored his first Paris Saint-German goal and Luxembourg midfielder Sébastien Thill struck late for newcomer Sheriff to stun 13-time champion Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday.Messi’s brilliant strike capped a&nb...

In a request for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Eastern Denmark to the European Court of Justice, the interpretation of Article 49 TFEU1 on the freedom of establishment was considered, specifically as to whether legislation governing the l...

The Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers said that it will insist that new licensing regulations for contractors will include provisions sanctioning or barring those found to be responsible for serious injury or the loss of life of their workmen...

200,000 flu vaccine doses have been ordered, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne said on Tuesday, adding that more could be ordered if needed.Speaking to the press, Fearne said that the influenza season normally starts in October, and that it can impa...

Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct.It’s a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or anim...

16 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday as the number of people in intensive care decreased.37 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that Malta now has 370 active cases of the virus.13 people are currently rece...

The best protection for journalists and activists is for 'campaigns of intimidation and incitement' against them to stop, Repubblika President Robert Aquilina said.He was responding to a question by this newsroom regarding Manuel Delia, who said that...

As the fourth anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder approaches (16 October), NGO Repubblika has announced a series of exhibitions and discussions across various localities, with the main theme being 'Daphne was right'.Together with Repubblik...

The National Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disability (2021-2030) was launched with the theme 'liberty to live'.The main aim of the strategy is to provide a directional plan for the sector for the coming years until 2030, the year identifie...

The Swieqi local council is standing its ground against Infrastructure Malta’s plan to turn Qasam road into a one way road by including a hair-pin junction as part of the second phase to the on-going works on St. Andrew’s road, Swieqi may...

Nationalist Party Health spokesperson Stephen Spiteri has called out the government for “not doing the right thing for the Maltese people” by cancelling the contract it has with Steward Health Care for the transfer of St Luke’s hosp...

Part of the Qormi valley storm-water culvert is set to be roofed over and turned into a green space in a €1 million investment from passport funds, the government announced on Tuesday.This was announced by Minister for the Economy and Industry S...

Għargħur residents yesterday gathered at the "contentious corner" where no less than four blocks rising to 6 storeys are to be built just 70m away from Għargħur parish church and flanking the Urban Conservation Area (UCA), NG...

Some 17,000 students and 3,000 educators in 55 schools are starting their academic year in Church schools this week, in conformity with Covid-19 protocols, a Curia statement said.The government financially helped schools carry out the necessary modif...

With the next general election now less than a year away and with travel restrictions owing to the Covid-19 pandemic still present, Malta should allow citizens who live abroad to be able to vote through an embassy, consulate, or by mail, new politica...

The British government put dozens of soldiers on standby Monday to help easy fuel supply problems caused by a shortage of truck drivers, a situation that has spurred panic buying of gasoline across the country.As unions called for emergency workers t...

A federal judge said Monday that John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan four decades ago, can be freed from all remaining restrictions next year if he continues to follow those rules and remains mentally stable.U.S. Distr...

Someone said, half-jokingly, that it took much less time for the Red Arrows to return to their base in England than for those who went to watch their display to go back home after the show from the Qawra and Bugibba area.Photos published on the socia...

UEFA has been forced to abandon its attempt to ban Super League clubs Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid from the Champions League due to court action over the governing body's attempt to punish the rebellion.A Spanish court injunction in June led t...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said Monday that he wants to see a national debate on electoral reform, including on the electoral districts.Speaking to journalists after a Cabinet meeting, Abela said would not say what his own views on the subject are, ...

Lawyers for a man contesting his extradition to the US have successfully contested the validity of the arrest warrant issued in Malta, arguing that he is not indicted for an arrestable offence or unlawfully at large.Lawyers Giannella De Marco, Stefan...

A race-track of international standards will be built at Hal-Far, Prime Minister Robert Abela announced today.He was speaking at the start of a Cabinet meeting which was held at the Ta’ Qali basketball pavilion. The meeting discussed Malta's st...

13 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported by health authorities as the number of active cases continued to dip.43 people have recovered, taking the number of active cases down to 391.17 patients are currently being treated at Mater Dei Hospital Hos...

Education Minister Justyne Caruana has said on Monday that the claims made by the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) that primary state schools are facing a shortage are ‘made up’ and ‘false’.Shortly before the press conference hel...

Some 150 primary school classes were without teachers while the Education Ministry was claiming that everything was set for the start of the new scholastic year, the Malta Union of Teachers said in a press conference on Monday.The MUT decried how in ...

The current shortage of teachers across the islands reveals how the government’s “serious” lack of forward planning has become ‘endemic’, the Nationalist Party said Monday.Addressing a press conference, PN education spok...

The compilation of evidence in the case against Keith Schembri’s wife has been postponed to next month because one of the prosecuting inspectors is abroad.Josette Schembri Vella was last month charged with money laundering. The case was se...

A new scheme that encourages businesses to make the workplace more accessible was launched on Monday by Malta Enterprise.Through a consultation with the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD), this scheme will cover up to 90% of ...

The National Foreign Direct Investment Screening Office (NFDIS) was inaugurated on Monday by Economy Minist Silvio Schembri.It will serve as a tool to ensure good governance by protecting Malta’s investment interests. The Office will ensur...

Edward Scicluna has lost a libel case against Simon Busuttil over a 2019 tweet stating that the then-Finance Minister was being investigated for money laundering.Magistrate Rachel Montebello ruled on Monday that Busuttil’s tweet, which centred ...

Ambjent Malta is investing over €300,000 to provide eleven local councils with funds to establish green recreational zones in the urban cores of their localities.Whilst it is important to invest in afforestation projects around the island in are...

The door-to-door garbage collection service will definitely continue, Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning Aaron Farrguia told The Malta Independent on Monday.This was in reply to The Malta Independent asking Farrugia about the p...

The current partner of a Nationalist MP has been acquitted of threatening his estranged wife, after the latter took to Facebook to reveal he was having an affair. Flavia Borg Bonaci had been accused of threatening and harassing Marica Azzop...

The Nationalist Party has pledged to help environmental NGOs where the Labour government has “failed.”While the PN recognises the fact that certain environmental NGOs were given the right of land of numerous environmental and historical s...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured in a traffic accident in Gudja on Monday morning, police said in a statement.The police said that they were informed of an accident at Dawret il-Gudja in Gudja at around 9am on Monday.Preliminary investigations s...

An application that would see an off-roading facility take the place of a disused quarry in Mellieha is set to be discussed by the Planning Authority Board on Thursday.The site is on the ‘Barriera Ta' L-Ahrax’. This application would incl...

A court judgement wherein Edward Scicluna lost a libel suit against Simon Busuttil shows that his Central Bank position is “absolutely not tenable,” the NGO Repubblika said.The NGO was reacting to a court decision wherein Magistrate Rache...

Germany's center-left Social Democrats won the biggest share of the vote in a national election Sunday, narrowly beating outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s center-right Union bloc in a closely fought race that will determine who suc...