Selling properties on plan is becoming more difficult, while the letting market is going strong, The Malta Independent on Sunday is informed.In March, this newsroom reported on how the war in Ukraine, as well as Covid-19, had driven up construction c...

Political parties, the Church and government should keep away from the serious discussion that is needed on euthanasia, medical ethics Professor Pierre Mallia told The Malta Independent on Sunday.Asked whether he sees Malta introducing euthanasia as ...

Once there is an open chapter it is the opposition's job to see it closed, the new Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), PN MP Darren Carabott, said with regard to the committee’s hearings on Electrogas Contacted by Th...

In its election manifesto, the Labour Party promised to find a way to make union membership mandatory to all workers.It was the most controversial proposal made in the election campaign and, while pleasing the unions, it irked employers to such an ex...

The European Commission remains ready to support the Maltese government in its actions aiming to strengthen the rule of law, media freedom and the protection of journalists in Malta, Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen told Prime Minister Rober...

If we just talk about financial sustainability, we will not manage to do anything in Gozo, Gozo Business Chamber (GBC) CEO Daniel Borg said on the proposed Xewkija heliport airstrip."I believe that if we let the model work, it will prove itself," he ...

Stevie Camilleri, Neptunes and Malta captain, is one of the greatest waterpolo players of all time. He has spent his career playing in Italy during the winter months and in Malta in summer. He tells us that pizza is his favourite food, loves coffee a...

Eighty one per cent of the Nationalist Party councillors voted for Bernard Grech to retain the leadership.The president of the PN electoral commission Peter Fenech on Saturday said that Grech obtained 1,124 yes votes, against the 266 votes against.In...

A small airplane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route was missing in Nepal’s mountains on Sunday, an official said.The Tara Airlines plane, which was on a 15-minute scheduled flight to the mountain town of Jomsom, took off ...

Yet another Champions League title for Real Madrid, the undisputed king of Europe.Yet another showpiece European soccer game tarnished by chaotic crowd issues and disorder.Madrid became European champion for a record-extending 14th time — doubl...

Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters forced to endure lengthy waits to get into the Champions League final amid logistical chaos and an attempt by UEFA and French authorities to blame overcrowding at turnstiles on peopl...

Russia claimed to have overrun a key rail hub while its troops fought Ukrainian defenders in the streets of another city in eastern Ukraine.The Russian Defense Ministry said the railroad center Lyman had been “completely liberated’’...

The first monkeypox case has been detected in Malta, the health authorities said.The patient is a 38-year-old man resident in Malta who was abroad in a country where the disease had been found.The man has light symptoms and does not need hospitalisat...

A man was grievously injured on Saturday after falling off a truck.The police said the accident took place in Triq l-Idwart, Attard, at 8am.The man, aged 32, was unloading some items off the truck when he slipped and fell.He was taken to hospital wit...

Valletta: Chemimart, 20/21, Republic Street; Ħamrun: Thomas' Pharmacy, 796, St Joseph High Road; Qormi: Drugshop Dispensary, Vjal De La Cruz; Swatar: Collis Williams  – St Mark's Pharmacy, P. Borg Olivier Street c/w Gianni Vella Stree...

A man has died after falling three storeys on a construction site, the police said.The accident took place at 6pm on Friday in Enrico Mizzi Street, Ta’ Xbiex.The man, from Turkey and resident in Sliema, fell into a shaft while working.He was ce...

A man was tied up by three robbers who made off with an undisclosed amount of cash from his garage in Birkirkara on Saturday morning.The police said that the robbery took place at around 7am in Karm Zerafa Street.Three hooded and armed men entered th...

A man was grievously injured after he was hit by a car in Mosta on Saturday.The police said the accident took place in Naggar Street at 7.30am.The man, a 63-year0old Mosta resident, was hit by a Volkswagen Golf driven by a 35-year-old man of Mtarfa.T...

Seventy-three new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Saturday.There were no deaths, which leaves the total number of victims at 719.The number of active cases is now 1,452.The Health Ministry has, since the day after the 2022 general election at the end...

Doctors for Choice said that a statement issued by a number of organisations against the proposed amendments to IVF law which will allow pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in exceptional circumstances is an insult to those who couples who have geneti...

Government’s proposal to introduce embryo selection in the IVF procedure is nothing short of eugenics, as such methods do not deliver a “healthy baby” but provide a tool to enable the selection of which baby will live and which baby...

On his home track, where he cycles from his apartment to the course, Charles Leclerc hopes to finish for the first time and reclaim the Formula One points lead.Leclerc was scheduled to lead the field from pole Sunday in the Monaco Grand Prix — ...

PN General Council members will today finish casting their ballots on whether or not they want Bernard Grech to be the party’s leader, with the outcome expected tonight.The PN suffered a landslide defeat last general election. The leadership el...

Moscow-backed separatists pounded eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region Friday, claiming to capture a railway hub, as Ukrainian officials pleaded for the sophisticated Western weapons they say they need to stop the onslaught.The advance of...

Breaking with the party line in a rare show of opposition to his country’s war in Ukraine, a Communist Party legislative deputy in Russia’s Far East demanded an end to the military operation and withdrawal of Russian forces.“We unde...

Malta’s roads have become something of a minefield. Whether it be dodging roadworks so intense that you think you’ve ended up in the back alleys of Baghdad, or dodging drivers and motorcycle riders who would be a great fit for the crazy s...

For a player who doesn’t consider himself to be a striker, Mohamed Salah is the envy of many forwards with his scoring record for Liverpool.“I don’t play No. 9, I play on the wing,” Salah said. “It’s completely dif...

The driver of an Arriva bus which skidded and crashed in Floriana in 2012, leading to over 20 people being injured, has been acquitted by a court.The 36-year-old driver from Qormi had been charged with causing damage to Portes des Bombes in Floriana,...

There was an increase of Ukrainian first-time asylum applicants to EU member states in February when compared to January.There were 355 applicants in January 2022, which rose to 2,370 in February 2022, according to Eurostat statistics.54,565 overall ...

Three men have been arraigned in court after a police investigation into the trafficking and forced prostitution of two South American women in Malta.Roque Borg, 51, a hotel manager from St. Paul’s Bay, cab driver Sylvan Pace, 48 from Gharb and...

The Autism Advisory Council has strongly condemned statements made on social media recently, labelling children on the autism spectrum as ‘dangerous’ and more, and advocating their segregation. Such statements are not only hurtful wh...

A commuter was seriously injured after she was hit by a bus operated by Malta Public Transport in Sliema on Friday, after disembarking from another bus.Police said in a statement later in the day that they were informed of the accident in Tower Road,...

There has been a major diesel spill in Marsa after a fuel truck overturned in what appears to be a traffic accident.Footage of the liquid spewing into and down the road was shared to Facebook by a commuter warning of the danger.This happened at aroun...

PL Member of the European Parliament Alex Agius Saliba has made an appeal to Facebook to ‘cease its discrimination against Maltese content creators,’ a statement by the PL read. Agius Saliba is currently in Silicon Valley in the Unit...

86 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday.141 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,501.1,257 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equat...

Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame for a growing food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other agric...

Irma Garcia's family was already reeling from her death in the Texas school shooting that targeted her fourth grade classroom and killed her co-teacher and 19 students.Then, a mere two days after the attack, her grieving husband collapsed and died at...

By the end of April 2022, the Government’s Consolidated Fund reported a deficit of €388.7 millionIn the first four months of 2022, recurrent revenue amounted to €1,595.3 million, 16.5% higher than the €1,369.7 million reported a ...

The European Forensic Institute was inaugurated in 2018 and is accredited by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority (MFHEA). It offers a selection of higher-education qualifications in specialist areas, and its first collaboration with the ...

Carlo Micallef has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Malta Tourism Authority."Micallef is a graduate of the University of Malta with a Bachelor of Commerce, Management specialised in Marketing. He carries with him a long-standing caree...

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk is the center of fierce fighting in the east. Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk says it’s holding out even though a Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group went into a city hotel.Stryuk said at...

The Parliamentary Secretary responsible for the Fisheries sector Alicia Bugeja Said received significant financial backing from three well-known companies in the fishing industry, according to financial declarations filed with the Electoral Commissio...

Drivers wanting to make their way to St Julian’s and Sliema from San Gwann faced a long detour as both roads leading to the two localities were closed to traffic at the same time.The lower part of Birkirkara Hill (right in the photo), which lea...

The Malta Gaming Authority’s former Chief Technology Officer Jason Farrugia has been charged with a raft of charges including money laundering, accepting bribes, fraud, and trading in influence in connection with his work at the regulator.Farru...

Health Minister Chris Fearne has said that the Covid-19 situation is well under control, and that there are no cases of monkeypox in Malta.Fearne was answering media questions on Thursday after a press conference.The Health Minister said that in the ...

APS Bank plc has launched an Initial Public Offering of 100,000,000 new ordinary shares with the possibility of an additional 10,000,000 new shares at an issue price of €0.62 per share, Chairman of APS Bank Martin Scicluna announced. Scicluna ad...

The Naxxar local council has objected to a Planning application for a home for the elderly on ODZ land that was filed by a PL local councillor from the same locality.The site of the application was previously known as Summiena Farm and is located on ...

British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men, an announcement that came as the actor was in court in New York testifying in a different case.The Crown P...

Malta’s in-vitro fertilisation law amendments will allow pre-implantation genetic testing of embryos in cases of serious genetic disorders within families, Health Minister Chris Fearne said. In cases of serious diseases such as Huntington&rsquo...

90 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Thursday.143 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,556.1,326 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equ...

Mark Camilleri, the former National Book council chairman has been ordered to appear in court under arrest, after he did not show up for a sitting in relation to a criminal complaint filed by Rosianne Cutajar.Cutajar asked the police to take action a...

Ray Liotta, the blue-eyed actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67.Liotta's publicist, Jen Allen, said he was in the Dom...

FAA today expressed its disgust at the way the fate of Balzan residents was handled at a Planning Authority hearing re PA 8693/20 where a Joseph Portelli associate is proposing to build 7 floors including two basement garages, one whole 2,400 sq.m. f...

Malta's reputation for excellence in the aviation sector is still growing as Malta today ranks first in the Cape Town Compliance, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Aaron Farrugia said during the European Business Aviation Co...

Two youths were arrested with drugs in Buskett, the police said in a statement.At 11pm yesterday, two community police officers took note of two people inside a BMW that was parked under a tent.The officers asked the two to exit the vehicle, and the ...

6,493 persons over 70 years old were still working in 2021, according to Jobsplus statistics.Answering a parliamentary question made by PN MP Jerome Caruana Cilia, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana presented the information in parliament regarding perso...

National Lottery plc., a subsidiary of the IZI Group, has unveiled its corporate brand – NATIONAL LOTTERY, that will replace Maltco Lotteries. In a symbolic event organised at the Mdina Ditch, the company unveiled its plans to launch a lottery ...

Rescue teams searched Wednesday for dozens of people reported missing after a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Europe capsized off Tunisia's coast.The International Organization for Migration said 30 people were rescued and 75 people were unaccou...

In 'CityRail a.s. vs. Správa ?eleznic', the Court of Justice of the European Union (the ''CJEU'') held that the Czech Office for Access to Transport (the ''Authority'') is not considered to fall under the classification of the concept of a 'co...

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an order Wednesday to fast track Russian citizenship for residents of parts of southern Ukraine largely held by his forces, while lawmakers in Moscow passed a bill to strengthen the stretched Russian ...

The Russian Defense Ministry is promising to open a safe corridor to allow foreign ships to leave Black Sea ports. A separate corridor will be open to allow ships to leave Mariupol by sailing from the port on the Sea of Azov port to the Black Sea.Mik...

Voting has started to confirm Bernard Grech as Nationalist Party leader. On Saturday evening, we will know the outcome of the exercise.It is easy to predict that he will obtain the 50 per cent plus one vote required to retain his position at the helm...

The delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has determined that Malta’s ‘excruciatingly slow’ justice system continues to impact the quality and efficiency of the way ju...

Government revenue was far less than was originally projected in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a report by the National Audit Office shows.The Commissioner for Revenue had collected €2,438,628,527, which is more than €790 million less ...

The election has come and gone, but the slaps in the government’s face continue to arrive, regularly and from different quarters. The Maltese electorate has given the Labour Party a third consecutive mandate, but this has not changed the way th...

The Malta Chamber of SMEs has been for months sounding the alarm and warning the authorities that if immediate action was not taken, Malta would end up in a human resource crisis. “Unfortunately, the warnings have not been heeded in time and ef...

Former Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis has said that he is “very happy” with the report issued by the Group of States against Corruption about Malta – even though the same report states that Malta only fully implemented two out...

The Parliamentary Secretary responsible for the Fisheries sector Alicia Bugeja Said received significant financial backing from three well-known companies in the fishing industry, financial declarations filed with the Electoral Commission show.Answer...

Drivers in Zebbug were met with a strange cause of traffic this evening.A large amount of hay was blocking part of Mdina road Zebbug, heading in the direction of Qormi, a photo posted on the Facebook group Malta Roads Traffic Updates showed.Police sa...

José Mourinho had described Roma as “a giant club" lacking a trophy room to match the team's social dimension and passionate fan base.Well, the Giallorossi claimed their first European title in more than six decades Wednesday to crown Mo...

Jason Azzopardi’s partner has recounted how she became paranoid and suffered sleepless nights following a series of abusive anonymous letters sent to her house.Flavia Borg Bonaci was testifying in court proceedings against Joseph Mary Borg, a 7...

The Engineering Board approved the four Bachelor of Engineering programmes offered by the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST), meaning that all current students will now be eligible to apply for an engineering warrant. This was anno...

Simonds Farsons Cisk plc, in announcing its financial results for year ended 31 January 2022, reported a profit before tax of €12.2 million, reflecting an increase of €7.7 million over the previous year. Group turnover amounted to €91....

59 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Wednesday.142 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,609.1,253 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, eq...

Air Malta has launched its three times weekly services to the Spanish capital at the prestigious Palace of Santoña, home of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Madrid.The event was organised in partnership with the Malta Tourism ...

The waiting time for a non-urgent MRI and a non-urgent ultrasound at Mater Dei Hospital is of four months, Health Minister Chris Fearne said in Parliament on Tuesday.Fearne was answering a set of parliamentary questions posed by PN MP Ian Mario Vassa...

Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia blamed a last minute order for additional works by the Mosta Local Council for the delays in the completion of roadworks to one of the locality’s main roads.Answering a Parliamentary Question asked by PN MP Iva...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior officials bear responsibility for a culture of rule-breaking that resulted in several parties that breached the U.K.’s COVID-19 lockdown rules, a report into the events said Wednesday.Revela...

Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the 3-mon...

The Russian parliament gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that would allow the government to appoint new management of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.According to the state news agency Tass, the new...

The Labour Party pledged to invest €700 million in the environment over the next five years. The environment will be given priority in this legislature, it is said. In his speech explaining the government’s programme at the opening of Parl...

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade and the latest gruesome moment for a coun...

The delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs currently in Malta sees progress on the rule of law, but there are still points of concerns, Sophie In't Veld, the Chairperson of the Committee...

Only two of the 23 recommendations by the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) in its most recent evaluation report were satisfactorily implemented, or were dealt with in a satisfactory manner by Malta.GRECO published on Tuesday a com...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said that Malta will not put the rule of law on the back burner, as the country’s priorities must be kept at the same levels, serving as catalysts for a better attitude.Addressing the delegation of the European Parli...

We have as many massage parlours as we have pastizzi shops, said PN MP Graziella Attard Previ during Parliament on Tuesday as she appealed for better regulation on the former type of establishment. Attard Previ said that the high amount of massa...

Malta’s drivers paid a collective total of almost  €1 million in fines for using their mobile phones while they were driving last year, figures tabled in Parliament show. The figures were tabled in Parliament on Tuesday by Home A...

92 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday, as one Covid-19 patient passed away in the previous 24 hours.158 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,69...

The opposition will be forwarding its list of proposed witnesses for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigation into the NAO's Electrogas report to the PL's committee members, and the PAC will next week discuss this list.During the first sessi...

Candidates who contested under the Labour Party ticket blitzed their Nationalist Party counterparts when it came to spending on their 2022 general election campaign, data released by the Electoral Commission shows.An analysis conducted by The Malta I...

The Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) needs a better structure, parliamentary secretary Andy Ellul said during parliament on Tuesday.Replying to a question by PN MP Claudette Buttigieg about what kind of reform needs to happen...

A biker who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in Gozo last week died in hospital on Monday evening, the police said.The crash, which occurred in Xewkija on 17 May, had involved a Yamaha 250 being ridden by a 63-year-old man from Xaghra...

A captured Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a civilian was sentenced by a Ukrainian court Monday to life in prison — the maximum — amid signs the Kremlin may, in turn, put on trial some of the fighters who surrendered at Mari...

DAVOS, Switzerland — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Russia can be reintegrated into the orbit of European nations if it finds its way back to “democracy, the rule of law, the respect for the international rules-ba...

PN MP Ivan Castillo is calling for locality wide CCTV coverage in St Paul's BayPosting on Facebook, Castillo said: "The situation is St Pauls Bay, Bugibba Qawra and Xemxija has residents concerned and distressed! This locality as a whole has the high...

Much has been done to limit plastic pollution in Malta.Through legislation, we have been tackling single-use plastics, although more can still be done.Rarely does one find plastic straws, with fast food restaurants now opting for ones made out of pap...

Joseph Bonnici, 41, was sentenced to 36 years in jail after admitting to killing his mother and sister in Ghaxaq three years ago.Bonnici admitted to the nine accusations against him and avoided a trial by jury.He admitted to killing Maria Lourdes Bon...

It’s now almost two centuries since the first package holiday was sold in Europe. For some, booking flights and 14 hotel nights in the same resort is still the most common way to travel.All-Inclusive packages, popularised in the latter half of ...

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola's delivered a speech to Israel's Knesset, and was heckled when speaking about peace and a two-state solution."In the past months, I have had to talk about war. Yet, both the basis and the ultimate ...

PN MP and lawyer Joe Giglio has said that discussions are currently underway with the government over police conduct certificates of individuals who have, among other things, served prison sentences, in order to begin recording the progress that they...