There were more traffic accident fatalities in the first four months of this year than for the whole of 2021, records compiled by this newsroom show. In fact, there have so far been 12 traffic fatalities between January and April, compared to 2021&rs...

The Nationalist Party will today start the process of electing its leader and, as approved in a general council last year, will return to having just one deputy leader, reversing a change that was introduced under then leader Simon Busuttil in 2013.P...

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat once famously suggested that a PM should not stay longer than 10 years in power and that MPs should spend up to a maximum of four legislatures in Parliament, a total of 20 years.It was a suggestion that was never f...

The Nationalist Party is today holding a general council meeting where the process to elect its leader will launch.Opposition Leader Bernard Grech is expected to be the sole contestant to retain the top post despite the Party's defeat in the March el...

The earlier we seek help, the better we are taking care of our mental health, Chief Operations Officer of Richmond Foundation, Daniela Calleja Bitar, said. Several people suffer from a mental problem, which has become severely prevalent in youth nowa...

Two Maltese citizens were in Moldova helping to build a centre to house Ukrainian refugees, while also delivering food to Odessa, in Ukraine.Douglas Barbaro Sant and Lorna Borg travelled to Moldova, and through funds collected from family, friends an...

Abigail Camilleri was one of the six Labour Party candidates to be elected to Parliament via the gender-corrective mechanism.The Gozitan MP tells us her favourite band is Pink Floyd, and she had the opportunity to watch Roger Water perform The Wall i...

In the run-up to the March general election, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech started a process to renew the Nationalist Party and a number of veteran MPs were asked not to contest. The move, although pledged by Grech himself months before, proved to ...

A commercial tanker that sank off the Tunisian coast and and was believed to be holding 750 tons of diesel fuel in fact held no fuel at all, according to Tunisian naval officials.The ship's crew has been detained on suspicion of criminal activity.The...

Russian forces in Ukraine tried to storm a steel plant housing soldiers and civilians in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday in an attempt to crush the last pocket of resistance in a place of deep symbolic and strategic value to Moscow, Uk...

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military said Saturday it destroyed a Russian command post in Kherson, a southern city that fell to Russian forces early in the war.The Ukrainian military intelligence agency posted a statement saying the command p...

Three Covid-19 deaths were recorded on Saturday, with no details given on the victims.Statistics published by the health authorities show that the number of deaths from Covid-19 have risen from 684 to 687.The number of new cases reported Saturday is ...

A construction worker fell to his death in San Gwann this morning, the police said.The accident took part in Gallina Street at 8.30am.The worker, a Syrian aged 25 who is resident in Birkirkara, fell two storeys while working.A medical team was called...

A woman was critically injured in Saturday morning when she fell one storey on a construction site, the police said.The accident took place at 10am in Ta’ Xaghman Street, Sannat.The woman, aged 68, resident of Xewkija, fell one storey down a fl...

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Maltese institutions, which include the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General, have failed to initiate prosecutions in court against people involved in corruption scandals, the president of the NGO Repubblika, Robert Aquilina, said.Speaking in...

A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus.There's no way to know for sure whether it was the ...

The PN on Saturday called on the government to take immediate action to reduce the waiting list for emergency surgery at the Orthopedics Department at Mater Dei Hospital. PN spokesperson for health Stephen Spiteri said that many patients are sufferin...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured on Saturday in a traffic accident in Santa Venera, the police said.The accident took place in Ferrovija Street at around noon.The biker, a49-year-old man of Xewkija, was riding a Suzuki GW250 which was involved i...

Ahmed el Fadalli Enan has been found guilty of complicity in the attempted importation of 50kg of cannabis from Tunisia in 2010 and sentenced to 25 years in jail.The Egyptian national from Fgura was also fined €40,000 after a jury delivered a 7-...

Hibernians have a golden opportunity to move closer to the title with a victory over Gudja United this afternoon as second placed Floriana dropped precious points in a scoreless draw against Birkirkara.Now Hibernians have a one point lead over the Gr...

Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus scored more goals in 53 minutes on Saturday than he had in the previous eight months in the English Premier League.Becoming the first player in the league to score four goals in one game this season, Jesus led Ci...

Defending champion Inter Milan gave a signal of intent as it crushed Roma 3-1 to move on top of Serie A on a miserable return to San Siro for former coach José Mourinho on Saturday.Denzel Dumfries, Marcelo Brozović and Lautaro Martí...

 President Emmanuel Macron is in the pole position to win reelection Sunday in France's presidential runoff, yet his lead over far-right rival Marine Le Pen depends on one major uncertainty: voters who decide to stay home.A victory in Sunday's r...

ADPD said today the government needs to act quickly to minimise the impact on the Maltese economy by Russai's invasion of Ukraine.“With the spiralling increase in the price of essential commodities that is also expected to continue in the comin...

KYIV, Ukraine — An adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office says Russian forces are attacking a steel plant that is the last defense stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city of Mariupol.Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to t...

Max Verstappen overtook Formula One leader Charles Leclerc on the penultimate lap to win the sprint race at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on Saturday and reignite his season.Verstappen started the sprint in pole position after finishing first in Frid...

The European Union reached a landmark deal early Saturday to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content.The law will force big tech companies to police themselves harder, make it easier for users to flag problems and emp...

Former parliamentary secretary John Rizzo Naudi has died, aged 96.A doctor by profession, Rizzo Naudi served in five parliamentary legislatures between the 1970s and 1990s.He was first elected in 1976 and remained in Parliament until 1995.He had serv...

Russia and Ukraine hurtled toward what could be an epic battle for control of the country’s industrial heartland as Ukrainian officials reported that Moscow had shifted a dozen crack military units from the shattered port of Mariupol to eastern...

George Hyzler passed the first stage of his European Court of Auditors grilling with flying colours on Thursday, with 25 out of 28 members of the European Parliament’s CONT committee approving his nomination.He was nominated to take the post by...

Ryan Schembri, the boss of the More Supermarkets chain, has been arrested in Scotland, according to Net News.Schembri fled from Malta in 2014, leaving debts that reportedly reach some €40 million.According to the report, Schembri was arrested on...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry on Saturday appealed for local authorities to lift travel restrictions from third countries.The Chamber called for the revision of rules regarding quarantine upon return from a third country, whi...

70% of people aged between 13 and 25 years have reported feelings of anxiety, according to findings from a Barometer Research of Youth Mental Health. The Richmond Foundation, an organisation which provides mental health care services organised a...

Almost all of Malta’s Covid-19 restrictions will be removed as from 2 May, with Health Minister Chris Fearne promising “normality with responsibility.”The announcement was made during a press conference on Friday.Fearne said that be...

Daniel Muka has been indicted over the murder of Christian Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski, The Malta Independent has confirmed.The evidence stage of the compilation of evidence against Daniel Muka, who stands accused of committing a double murder, h...

An elderly Englishman, who is the owner of a yacht which was torn off its moorings, has been found dead in the sea after Malta was battered by gale force winds on Thursday.Police said in a statement that they were informed at around 7pm on Thursday t...

249 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday.552 people have recovered from the virus, and no new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 5,567.2,038 swab tests...

The PN has condemned the killing of protected birds, which it said reflected irresponsible acts of illegal hunting."In two separate incidents, 10 protected birds known as Marsh Harriers were injured. They were found wounded and some of them killed in...

On Monday, a Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) team reported a hunter for leaving a 14-year-old minor unattended with a loaded shotgun, the group said in a statement."The kid was filmed sitting alone in a hunting hide, holding the loaded shotgu...

As part of a new pilot project, from Saturday 7th May catering establishments will be encouraged to separate their waste, particularly organic waste.Through a new initiative, organic waste collection will take place on Saturday and Sunday between 1.0...

Prosecutors in southern Portugal are formally accusing a suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared nearly 15 years ago while on a family vacation in the southern European country.A stateme...

The police have issued a wanted person report for a man who they say has breached his bail conditions.The Police took to Facebook to ask the public for help in tracing Alexander Anthony Gialanze Whiteford, saying that he has breached bail conditions....

"EU membership meant adaptation and change for Malta. In many areas it opened horizons of opportunity, in others we need to recognise failures. More than ever, we need to ensure that new EU legislation drafted in Brussels reflects better our island r...

New satellite images show what appear to be mass graves near Mariupol, and local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians there in an effort to conceal the slaughter taking place in the siege of the port city.The images eme...

Research conducted by Cable.co.uk, an organisation which exists specifically to help consumers compare the price of broadband internet, has found that Malta has the cheapest cost per megabit in Western Europe. The research, which examined the cost of...

On Friday, the hunting federation won a court battle allowing its members to take part in a Spring hunting season. Just a few days later, we witnessed the first mass killing of protected species.On Monday night, a group of Marsh Harriers were massacr...

George Hyzler passed the first stage of his European Court of Auditors grilling with flying colours on Thursday, with 25 members of the European Parliament’s CONT committee approving his nomination.The full grilling can be watched below.Hyzler,...

The Minister for National Heritage, the Arts, and Local Government Owen Bonnici on Friday inaugurated the Maltese Pavilion during the 59th International Art Exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia.”  The Pavilion was commissioned by Arts ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Satellite images released Thursday showed what appeared to be mass graves near Mariupol, and local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians there in an effort to conceal the slaughter taking place in t...

New regulations published by the health ministry mean that masks will no longer be mandatory in schools as of Monday 25 April.As the Easter holidays come to a close, at the start of the new term students will no longer be forced to wear masks in clas...

George Hyzler passed the first stage of his European Court of Auditors grilling with flying colours on Thursday, with 25 members of the European Parliament’s CONT committee approving his nomination, sources told The Malta Independent. Hyzler, w...

The head of the EU's financial crime watchdog, Laura Codruţa Kövesi, says Malta is paying lip service in its efforts to crack down on EU fraud and corruption, the EU Observer reports.Speaking to European lawmakers on Wednesday, Kövesi ...

Church schools are encouraging the use of masks, the Curia said in a statement.Earlier today, the Public Health Authorities published the updated Covid-19 Guidelines for the education sector. The guidelines mean that masks will no longer be mand...

Five more Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, as health authorities reported 312 new cases of the virus.681 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases is now down to 5,870.2,319 swab ...

A survey carried out with 600 people found that there is 'no support' for mandatory vaccinations, and that consumers are consuming less than was expected.The survey was conducted by statistician Vince Marmara and Sagalytics, with the questionnai...

A government-owned company has issued a public tender for the provision of front end engineering design (FEED) for the second electrical cable interconnection project between Malta and Sicily.The tender was issued by Interconnect Malta, which has bee...

Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to claim victory in the strategic port of Mariupol on Thursday, even as he ordered his troops not to storm the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the war’s iconic battleground.Russian troops have besie...

The compilation of evidence against Elliott Busuttil, the man accused of killing Mario Farrugia and hiding his body in a car in Qormi, has been delayed after the accused tested positive for Covid-19.Farrugia was last seen on 28 March in the vicinity ...

Relentless Russian attacks pounded the last Ukrainian stronghold in the besieged city of Mariupol as a fighter apparently on the inside issued a video plea for help, saying defenders holed up in a giant steel plant "may have only a few days or hours ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to announce plans Thursday to send additional military aid to help Ukraine fight back against the Russian invasion, according to a U.S. official.The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly an...

The gender-corrective mechanism that was introduced in the last legislature, and implemented as from the March election, has led to Malta having its largest Parliament yet, with 79 members, which is also the biggest per capita in Europe.There is now ...

A fire has erupted in an apartment in Sliema this morning, police said.The apartment is situated in St Ignatius Street just after 9.30am.Members of the Civil Protection Department and police officers are on site.

The Nationalist Party is set to begin its statutory obligation to elect a leader this week – and it’s probable that the current incumbent will be the only candidate for the post.Bernard Grech, who was elected to the party leadership just ...

Chris Said has said that he was left out of the PN’s shadow Cabinet because he formed part of Lawrence Gonzi’s Cabinet when the PN was still in government before 2013.Asked about his exclusion from the PN’s shadow Cabinet on Monday ...

Maltese MEP Alex Agius Saliba said Wednesday that the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee voted 43 in favour, 2 against and no abstentions towards enacting the common charger legislation.In a media press briefin...

Two more Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, as health authorities reported 297 new cases of the virus.785 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases is now down to 6,244.2,372 swab t...

A man with nine previous convictions for illegal hunting has been cleared of shooting a stork in 2020 after the prosecution withdrew six of the nine charges and failed to exhibit his firearms licence.Officers from the Administrative Law Enforcement u...

A British judge on Wednesday formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. The case will now go to Britain’s interior minister for a decision, though the WikiLeaks founder still has legal avenu...

31 local restaurants have been recognized by the Michelin Guide, which annually recognizes the quality and culinary skills of the best restaurants in the world.For the year of 2022, five restaurants in the Maltese Islands have earned the prestigious ...

Russia hurled its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and poured more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.T...

A man died after he was hit by a car in Marsa on Tuesday evening.The accident took place in Triq Diċembru Tlettax, at around 8pm, the police said.The victim, a 24-year-old Sudanese man who lives in Birzebbugia, was hit by a Land Rover Freelander...

It's still advantage Manchester City in the Premier League title race.Three second-half goals earned City a 3-0 win over Brighton on Wednesday, lifting Pep Guardiola's team back into first place after being ousted — only for 24 hours as it turn...

Federico Bernardeschi scored against his former club as Juventus beat Fiorentina 2-0 on Wednesday to set up an Italian Cup final against Inter Milan.After Fiorentina goalkeeper Bartłomiej Drągowski failed to intercept a cross, Bernardeschi ...

BERLIN -- The United Nations’ refugee agency says that more than 5 million people have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24.The Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday put the total number of refuge...

A number of Maltese parishes will be collecting basic and essential items for Ukrainian people on Saturday April 23.The initiative, which is being coordinated by the Archdiocese of Malta through the LOOP Cooperative will collect items specifically re...

Parliament is still to be convened after the election and, yet, here we are with the first co-option of the legislature.The Labour Party, with the assent of Prime Minister Robert Abela, has chosen to pick Randolph Debattista for a seat in the House o...

The evidence stage of the compilation of evidence against Daniel Muka, who stands accused of committing a double murder, has been declared closed.Muka is accused of murdering Chris Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejovski in their Sliema home on Locker street...

Tens of protected Marsh-harriers were massacred by hunters during the night, BirdLife Malta said in a statement.“BirdLife Malta volunteers and members yesterday witnessed a horrible hunting massacre during the first hours of the night that deci...

Hotel bookings for Easter averaged over 70% of the number of bookings during the same period in 2019, President of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association Tony Zahra told The Malta Independent on Monday.85% of the hotel guests were non-Maltese, ...

One man has been jailed and two others have been remanded in custody after they were arraigned in court, accused of stealing thousands of euro from a construction site in Kalkara on April 17.Brendan Cachia, 35, from Vittoriosa, Ramon Abela,46, from C...

After days of regrouping and reinforcing, the Russian military began a new and potentially climactic phase of the war in Ukraine by launching its long-feared, full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country's industrial heartland, the Donb...

282 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday, while no new deaths were reported for the first time since the beginning of the month.701 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, taking the number of active cases down...

The impact of a 40% rise in importation costs for fertiliser, which is required by farmers, will create a food shortage with devastating effects on the country, the PN's Agriculture spokesperson Toni Bezzina and Finance spokesperson Jerome Caruana Ci...

Two more speed cameras are set to be installed on the Coast Road, the Local Enforcement System Agency (LESA) announced on Tuesday.The cameras will be fully installed in the coming days, and are being installed in the southbound direction of the Coast...

Liverpool is back where Manchester United is far from reaching: Top of the Premier League.To know why there is such a deficit in quality now between English football’s most successful clubs, just look at how Liverpool’s forwards tormented...

Lautaro Martínez scored twice to send Inter Milan into the Italian Cup final with a 3-0 second-leg win over city rival AC Milan on Tuesday.Both of Martínez’s goals came in the first half in a clinical performance that also gave In...

Malta Chamber of Commerce President Marisa Xuereb warned Monday that inflation is set to consistently hit Malta for the next six to 12 months as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.Speaking to The Malta Independent, Xuereb shared the difficulties fac...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has issued a public notice stating that a duplicate of their website has been created under the name of NFSA. The layout and contents of the malicious website are identical to that of the MFSA and it...

KYIV, Ukraine — A regional governor in eastern Ukraine says five civilians have been killed by Russian shelling.Kharkiv region Governor Oleh Synyehubov said Tuesday that another 17 residents were wounded in the Russian rocket barrage of the cen...

Who should and shouldn’t be allowed to win government tenders?Well for one, those in court over serious criminal charges should definitely not benefit from public funds. For another, those without the knowhow in an area they are tendering for s...

 Cristiano Ronaldo took to social media on Monday to say one of his newborn twins has died.“It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that our baby boy has passed away,” the Manchester United striker wrote in a post&nbs...

Adrian Delia has been granted a mega portfolio by PN leader Bernard Grech, while new MP Mark Anthony Sammut has been granted the energy sector.The shadow Cabinet was announced on Monday evening after PN leader Bernard Grech on Monday spent the day me...

A court has been told that a man from Gharghur allegedly threatened to shoot three children, including his 10-year-old daughter, during a domestic argument with his estranged wife on Easter Sunday.Inspector John Spiteri arraigned the 37-year-old man ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg has requested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy address the Maltese Parliament when it restarts.Borg was referring to a conversation he had with Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Kuleba, Bo...

The Department of Information has issued a right of reply on behalf of the government in response to the Malta Independent's editorial, which questioned whether Malta is doing enough to sanction Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.The right of reply ...

Frank Psaila and Alessia Psaila Zammit have become the latest to resign from the Nationalist Party, The Malta Independent can confirm.Psaila, who for many years presented current affairs programmes and was the third-most popular candidate in the 2019...

Four Covid-19 patients died over the Easter weekend, with two deaths being reported on Easter Sunday and another two on Monday, data published by health authorities at the start of the week showed.Malta’s Covid-19 numbers were not published at ...

An appeal against the refusal of a massive solar farm in Mgarr has been filed, with the minds behind plans to take up almost eight football pitches worth of Outside Development Zone agricultural land seeking to get the PA's verdict overturned.The app...

The Valletta Green Festival, the annual event which is synonymous with spring in Valletta, is taking place from Thursday 28th April till Sunday 1st May.The theme for this year’s edition is the importance of public spaces, the protection of natu...