A photo exhibition of street art depicting migratory birds is being held at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta throughout December until mid-January. Greater Flamingo in Gozo Curated by Rachel Formosa, it forms part of the Migratory Birds i...

Article 59 of Chapter VI of the Constitution of Malta, which deals with the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, does not mention anything about what the person’s ethical role is to be. Nor do the Standing Orders. However, the parliamentary...

You are probably wondering why there are flies all over the place at the end of November, a month when they are normally in short supply. But according to a pest entomological consultant, climate change could be to blame as flies are...

In an international and unprecedented ‘first’ for Malta, the Prime Minister yesterday announced that the entire government was ‘self-suspending' itself.  This move, the PM said, was a part of the growing trend in self-suspensi...

Robert Lewandowski threatens to deny Lionel Messi a record-extending seventh Ballon d’Or title as the prestigious awards ceremony returns Monday after it was cancelled last year because of the pandemic. The Bayern Munich and Pol...

An open letter to the Speaker of the House. See more work by Seb Tanti Burlò.  

A 43-year-old woman from Żebbuġ was seriously injured at around 6.30pm on Sunday, when she was hit by a car in Qormi. The police said the Filipino woman was hit by a Maruti 800, driven by a 29-year-old Siġġiewi woman on Triq it-T...

Russia knocked reigning champion Spain out of the Davis Cup on Sunday to set up a quarter-final against Sweden. The Russians’ tie against the depleted Spanish team came down to a late-night doubles encounter in Madrid. Aslan Karats...

Portuguese league officials met on Sunday to discuss the farcical game between Belenenses and Benfica, which had to be called off in the second half after Belenenses started with only nine players, including two goalkeepers, due to a...

Andrew Aquilina Grants for the purchase of EVs have been available for the past four years, with the majority of grants being over-subscribed within a few months from them being launched. Grants for the purchase of EVs increase from ...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Monday. Times of Malta reveals on its front page that an HSBC official was sacked in recent weeks over suspicions he was siphoning off cash from his clients’ loan accounts...

We are witnessing an unprecedented deterioration of our parliamentary democracy. Last week, the Speaker of the House, Anġlu Farrugia, took offence at a letter sent to him by Matthew Caruana Ga­lizia in which he rightly complained a...

Form 5 biology students attending the Gozo seminary recently held an interesting fieldwork exercise at Dwejra – an important site known for its geological, palaeontological, ecological and landscape value. The natural environment a...

Artist James Vella Clark is holding an exhibition of his latest abstract works at Il-Ħagar ‒ Heart of Gozo museum in Victoria. Born in 1975, Vella Clark’s artistic debut took place in 2001 with a first solo exhibition, which was...

Pregnant women in Malta who tested positive for COVID-19 were not exposed to any additional risks despite their infection status, researchers have found. The study, conducted between March 2020 and May 2021 and published recently, is...

Obituaries BROOK. In Portsmouth, UK, LENA, née Gatt, aged 94, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss  her  children Anthony, Christine, Geoffrey, Arthur and Elizabeth, their part...

The term ‘stagflation’ was coined 50 years ago when many global economies experienced long periods of double-digit inflation and interest rates, high unemployment and sluggish economic growth. Economists are now asking whether th...

Japan will reinstate tough border measures, barring all new foreign arrivals over the Omicron COVID variant, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Monday, just weeks after a softening of strict entry rules. "We will ban the (new)...

An HSBC official was sacked in recent weeks over suspicions he was siphoning off cash from his clients’ loan accounts. The official, an ex-manager in HSBC’s mortgages section, is suspected of withdrawing tranches of unutilised lo...

Abortion – self-defence I refer to the letter by Christopher Barbara (November 25) wherein he asserted that Malta’s code makes therapeutic abortion a crime, independently of whether the abortion was performed to save the motherâ€...