A teenager was critically hurt on Saturday morning when he fell five storeys, the police said.The accident happened in a construction site in Ramla Street, Mellieha, at 2.30am.The police said that two teenagers from Austria, aged 18 and 19, had enter...

The European Union’s executive arm recommended putting Ukraine on a path to membership Friday, a symbolic boost for a country fending off a Russian onslaught that is killing civilians, flattening cities and threatening its very surviv...

The Sliema local council said that police will be patrolling the Sliema promenade, from the Exiles area to the Strand, from 5am to midnight.The police patrolling system will be in place as from Monday 20 June after talks with the Prime Minister and t...

Friday's official announcement that Malta has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) grey list confirms that Malta is a 'serious and reputable' jurisdiction, Prime Minister Robert Abela said.Abela spoke after a secret vote was tak...

The PN has said that the news of Malta's removal from the grey list 'is positive'."With this news comes the onus of maintaining standards, building further robust control mechanisms and heightening our collective vigilance. We cannot afford to let ou...

Malta has officially been removed from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) grey list, and the FATF has encouraged Malta to 'strongly focus' on continuing to strengthen its systems and measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing.T...

Tourism is the most important economic sector in Malta.At the same time, one questions whether we are doing enough to safeguard it, or to ensure that we are offering the best product possible. We must also ask whether locals are being made to suffer ...

An international watchdog said Friday it will keep Pakistan on a so-called “grey list” of countries that do not take full measures to combat money laundering and terror financing but raised hopes that its removal would follow an upcoming ...

A Constitutional case challenging Malta’s Freedom of Information Act kicked off in court on Friday, challenging the misuse of FOI procedures to block or limit access to information within a reasonable time. A team of Public Interest Litigation ...

 A man died early this morning after falling down a flight of stairs during a fight, the police said.The police are treating the incident as a murder.The incident took place in Triq it-Turisti, St Paul’s Bay, at 1.30am.The police said that...

Lawyers for Luke Milton, one of the men charged in connection with the abduction of a man in Rabat, have filed court proceedings requesting a protection order in favour of Milton's former girlfriend, who claims to have recently been approached on Fac...

The Chamber of Advocates said that a kiss in the courtroom is not appropriate but a verbal warning should have been enough.It was referring Magistrate Yana Micallef Stafrace’s “disproportionate reaction” after Dr Janice Chetcuti, a ...

A 55-year-old man named Nicholas Camilleri, who is a Birkirkara resident, has been reported as missing.He was last seen in the Għajn Tuffieħa area, limits of Mgarr. Anyone with information is kindly asked to contact the police, even confide...

Three men were injured in two separate fights in St Julian’s on Thursday night, the police said.Just before midnight, the police were informed of a fight that was taking place in St Augustine Street.The fight involved three men, one of whom esc...

During 2021, 17 boat landings were recorded in Malta, with 838 persons being brought to Maltese shores (including persons air lifted at sea), a decrease of 63.3% when compared to 2020, the National Statistics Office said.The majority of persons broug...

The executive arm of the European Union recommended Friday that Ukraine be granted candidate status to one day join the 27-nation bloc.The promise of membership in a union created to safeguard peace on the continent holds deep symbolism for the natio...

Four European leaders expressed their support for Ukraine on Thursday while meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowing to back Kyiv's candidacy to eventually join the European Union and offering more weapons to fend off Russia's invasion.Fren...

There were 260 new Covid-19 cases reported Friday, with the number of active patients jumping to 2,316, figures released by the health authorities show.No new deaths were recorded, meaning that the number of victims remains at 728.Since the first cas...

Author Mark Camilleri has filed a constitutional case against the State Advocate and the National Book Council, claiming that the latter discriminated against him because of his political views and had refused to review and promote his book, A R...

It’s been two years and three months since Malta registered its first Covid-19 case.We have since learnt to understand that the virus comes in waves. In the first few months of the pandemic, we were told that waves are only in the sea, but peop...

Murdered taxi driver Mario Farrugia had spoken to his brother before his death, expressing concerns about two troublesome clients, whom he suspected to be involved in the drugs trade, and who were repeatedly booking his services but only paying half ...

The Nationalist Party has filed a motion in Parliament in order to revoke the legal notice for Valletta, which allows music to be played till 1 a.m in some streets.The PN argued that the legal notices issued by the government on 6 and 13 June go agai...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that there are signs of war crimes in a Kyiv suburb following “massacres” by Russian forces.He spoke in the town of Irpin while on a visit with the German, Italian and Romanian leaders to sho...

European Union Director General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Tourism Valentina Superti, in an interview with The Malta Business Weekly, briefly explains the way the EU and Malta are taking when it comes to accommodating not...

A 17-year-old girl, Doaa Kasem, has been reported missing.She was last seen around Santa Venera. Anyone with information about her is asked to please pass it on to the police, even confidentially, by calling 21 224001 / 119 or by heading to the neare...

A court hearing a libel case filed by Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar against Mark Camilleri has ordered the lead homicide investigator Keith Arnaud to search for evidence of an email confirming a trip abroad involving Yorgen Fenech and MP ...

Malta's unfortunate grey listing episode should serve as a lesson to all of us for a very long time The Malta Chamber of SMEs has said.The Malta Chamber of SMEs said that it is very pleased that Malta is no longer grey listed by the Financial Action ...

The European Union council has officially appointed George Hyzler on the European Court of Auditors, a statement from the court said today.He will serve for six years, starting from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2028. He will be replacing Leo Brinca...

The PN has appealed for dialogue with health workers, and for government not to treat their representatives 'like criminals'.The party issued a statement after the news broke that the First Hall of the Civil Court upheld a request by the Health Minis...

A biker was critically injured in an accident in San Gwann on Thursday morning, the police said.The biker, a Hungarian man aged 25, was riding a Kymco bike which was involved in a collision with a Tesla Model 3 driven by a woman, aged 38 of St Paul&r...

The Maltese National Federation of the Past Pupils and Friends of Don Bosco launched their new project CheckIn in the presence of the Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo. This took place at their new offices in Sliema.CheckIn is a new project which ...

The number of Covid-19 active cases went up again as 255 new patients were registered, figures released by the health authorities said.Active cases now total 2,164, climbing up by more than 150 in one day as the number of recoveries was low.There wer...

The Bank of England raised interest rates by a quarter-percentage point Thursday, shrugging off pressure for a bolder move to combat price increases that have pushed inflation to a 40-year high.While the United Kingdom’s central bank began...

As previously announced, Bank of Valletta held an information session for its shareholders at the Hilton Hotel in St. Julian's. Several topics related to the operations of the bank were discussed during the session, which was attended by a substantia...

Malta has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s grey list, The Malta Independent has learnt.The news came after a secret vote was taken at the currently ongoing FATF set of meetings, which includes a plenary, in Germany.The news w...

A judicial protest calling for the decriminalisation and legalisation of abortion has been filed in the Maltese courts. The Women's Rights Foundation filed the judicial protest on behalf of 188 women and persons who can get pregnant, the lobby g...

Both the Nationalist Party and the Labour Party Members of Parliament voted in favour of changing the IVF laws in accordance to today’s realities, with the PN particularly changing tack somewhat from its initial stance on the amendments.Health ...

For years on end we all wondered why Valletta, our capital city, went to sleep at 7pm when the shops closed and all the workers returned home.We questioned why, whereas other European capital cities remained alive well into the night, there was too l...

The Archdiocese of Malta has called on former minister and media commentator Michael Falzon to substantiate remarks he made in the local media alleging “there are stories of…corruption…in the Curia’s own administrative struc...

The Criminal Court has turned down a bail request made by the man indicted over a double murder which took place in Sliema, two years ago. In a decree handed down earlier today, Mr Justice Aaron Bugeja denied the request, which had been filed by...

The Nationalist Party is filing a parliamentary motion in which it is calling for two legal notices allowing music to be played in some Valletta streets until 1am to be revoked.In a statement, the PN said that a decision on the motion was taken after...

The government will be requesting that €60 million Malta “lost” from the EU recovery package as a result of its economic growth will still be handed over to the country, Parliamentary Secretary for EU Funds Chris Bonett said.The &eur...

For the second time in a week, the head of the Labour Party’s media and chairman of the Valletta agency Jason Micallef has turned the guns against the country's authorities, saying it is shameful that permits such as those issued for a pool in ...

273 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Wednesday.114 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 2,012.1,321 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, e...

The Environmental Health Directorate within the Superintendence of Public Health said Wednesday that as a precaution and until further notice, bathing is not recommended due to the presence of sewage overflow affecting bathing water quality and prese...

A Nigerian man has become the latest person who will face charges in connection with a romance fraud racket, after he was arrested abroad and deported to Malta, police said on Wednesday.In a statement, the police said that after a number of people we...

The truck driver had the radio on, his daughter's stuffed toy keeping him company, and was bouncing his lumbering vehicle down one of the innumerable dirt tracks in Ukraine that are vital thoroughfares in the country's vast agricultural heartlands.Th...

Egypt, Israel, and the European Union on Wednesday signed a deal to increase liquified natural gas sales to EU countries, who aim to reduce dependence on supply from Russia as the war in Ukraine drags on. The deal, stamped in a five-star Cairo h...

Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but Ukrainians were still trying to evacuate the wounded, a regional official said Tuesday.Serhiy Haidai...

With the ongoing increase in the price of foodstuffs and other essential items, it is now very common to hear people complaining about how much their grocery shopping spend has increased. A visit to the supermarket now costs up to 20% more than it di...

In 2021, cinemas in Malta and Gozo projected 358 different film titles and registered a total of 269,763 admissions, statistics issued by the National Statistics Office (NSO) show.During that year, there were six cinema establishments with a total of...

Two police officers are to be charged in connection to an incident back in June 2020, when a man died in the police lock-up just hours after being arrested.The 35-year-old man from Mtarfa - Richmond Tong - had been arrested by members of the Rapid In...

In the case Turnkey Limited (C 55175) (the “Plaintiff”) vs. Francesco Ruggieri (the “Defendant”), the First Hall Civil Court (the “Court”),  presided over by Honourable Judge Audrey Demicoli, on the 6 June 202...

We are commercialising Valletta too much, PN MP Mario Demarco said on Tuesday.During Parliament, de Marco said that Valletta is being heavily commercialised, with reference to the latest legal notice with which the government added another two street...

Some 300 millionaires are expected to move to Malta this year, according to articles that appear on the Henley and Partners website."Forecast figures in the Henley Global Citizens Report show the top 10 countries in terms of net inflows of ...

Moviment Graffitti has welcomed the banning of sunbeds from Blue Lagoon's sandy beach in Comino and the news that those on the quay be limited, however has insisted on a number of other restrictions.The announcement regarding the sunbeds was made by ...

England suffered its worst home defeat since 1928 with a 4-0 loss to Hungary in the Nations League on Tuesday.Less than a year after reaching the European Championship final on home soil to raucous celebrations, England was booed by its own fans afte...

The Planning Authority has given the green light for developer Joseph Portelli and his business partner to build a large pool in a protected part of a Gozitan valley.The Planning Commission on Tuesday voted to approve the pool, which will form part o...

PL MPs have objected to Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa being called to testify before the Public Accounts committee (PAC) over the Electrogas contract.PL MP Alex Muscat argued that there was no need to summon Gafa as the National Audit Office's prob...

The Attorney General had advised the police not to investigate criminal complaints filed by Melvin Theuma and Yorgen Fenech against each other, until criminal proceedings against them were concluded, a court has been told.Superintendent Victor Aquili...

Works on the Ghadira sand replenishment pilot project are set to start in July, Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia said on Tuesday during Parliament.Farrugia said that he had just been to a meeting about this project on Tuesday morning and is informed...

A court has appointed mental health experts to examine two girls who reported being sexually abused by their stepfather, after they contacted a social worker to withdraw their accusations.This as the compilation of evidence against a 40-year-old man ...

A financial services company called XNT Ltd. Has been fined an administrative penalty of €244,679, the FIAU has said.There were a number of reasons listed as to why the penalty was issued.The first dealt with customer due diligence.Findings from...

Irrespective of where discussions on accession of Ukraine into the European Union stand, the EU should afford European Healthcare services to Ukrainians, said the Minister for Health Chris Fearne on Tuesday. Fearne was speaking before the Consum...

The shore to ship power project moving to second phase, Transport minister Aaron Farrugia said on Tuesday during Parliament.Farrugia said that with this €50 million project, a total of 17 thousand families will benefit as 90% of current emission...

200 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday, while one more patient has died while positive for the virus.101 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,8...

The coming days could be defining for Malta and the prospects of a couple of its major economic sectors, as the Financial Action Task Force is expected to meet and – possibly – decide to remove Malta from its grey list.Malta was greyliste...

The Malta Development Bank (MDB) has launched the Liquidity Support Guarantee Scheme (LSGS) which is the second emergency liquidity support measure as part of an aid package in response to the Ukraine crisis.  The first measure was in support of...

The Nationalist Party has questioned why the government has not removed all the deckchairs from Comino’s Blue Lagoon Bay. In a statement, the PN said that it had been closely following the situation pertaining to Blue Lagoon and to the dec...

The Mediterranean Tourism Forum has officially kicked off in Malta, with 30 different countries paving the way forward for the next generation of tourists.Together with stakeholders, Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo, MHRA President Andrew Agius Musca...

Life expectancy has increased throughout the decades, and according to the latest set of data issued by Eurostat, so has the length of period that a person remains healthy. Eurostat’s data, which caters for 2020, shows that Malta ranks sec...

No sunbeds will be allowed on Blue Lagoon’s sandy beach in Comino while also a limit on the number of sunbeds on the quay has also been placed, Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo said on Monday.Activist group Moviment Graffitti held a protest on ...

Establishments in two more streets in Valletta will be allowed to play music until 1am, rather than 11pm, after the government updated a controversial legal notice.The legal notice in question has been a source of consternation with the capital city&...

The government said Monday that contrary to reports, there is a capping of pensions for doctors and consultants.The contributory pension is capped according to the Social Secutiry Act, the government said.It was denying a report on Times of Malta, wh...

Former public service chief Mario Cutajar has been appointed chairman of the national heritage agency – Heritage Malta.Cutajar resigned from the role of Principal Permanent Secretary last month.In a statement, the Ministry for National Heritage...

The EU Parliament and EU member states' negotiators have agreed to keep the EU Digital Covid Certificate framework in place for another year, until June 2023.On Monday evening, negotiating teams from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU ...

Materia Malta has become the first company to export medical cannabis from Malta for sale in another country as it has completed the first commercial export of medical cannabis to Germany.Materia is a leading producer and distributor of medical canna...

APS Bank plc on Monday announced the Allocation Policy in respect of applications received for its Initial Public Offering (IPO) of 110,000,000 new shares (including the 10,000,000 new shares issued as a result of over-allotment), at the price of &eu...

A 40-year-old man from Floriana was remanded in custody on Monday morning, after he was charged with attacking and intentionally injuring his partner with a piece of broken glass during a domestic argument.The father of two, whose name cannot be publ...

142 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Monday, while one more patient has died while positive for the virus.73 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,755...

David Agius gave nothing away when he was asked by this newsroom whether he was going to re-contest for the role of Nationalist Party Deputy Leader for the upcoming term.Nominations for the post opened on Saturday and will remain open till 18 June.Co...

The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) has removed campers found to be in breach of regulations at the tal-Ful campsite in Comino, the authority said in a statement.Over the past few weeks, ERA officers were actively following the situation. T...

Signs of the comeback of air travel continued to be observed by the Malta International Airport, with May becoming the second consecutive month to surpass the half a million passenger mark, a statement by MIA read."554,820 passengers travelled throug...

In January 2022, registered full-time employment increased by 4.6 per cent while part-time employment as a primary job increased by 6.0 per cent when compared to the corresponding month in 2021, the NSO said. Administrative data provided by Jobsplus ...

Gozo Minister Clint Camilleri addressed a set of meetings organised by The European Federation for Hunting and Conservation over the weekend, local hunting lobby group the FKNK said in a statement.A delegation of four Officials from the Council of th...

Attacks on people in restaurants are not the ‘norm’, the Secretary at the Association of Catering Establishments Omar Vella said. Having said this, the people’s safety in these establishments is of paramount importance.The Malta Ind...

A woman has been injured after she was hit by a car in Zejtun on Monday morning.Police said that they were called to Triq Alfredo Cachia Zammit in Zejtun in response to a traffic accident at 7:15am on Monday morning.Preliminary investigations showed ...

A woman was hospitalised on Monday after being hit by a vehicle in Luqa, the police said.The accident happened at 9.45 am, in Qormi Road.The vehicle involved in the accident was a BMW was being driven by a 23-year-old man from Mosta.Police later said...

Malta is the sixth lowest spender in the European Union in terms of the percentage of its GDP when it comes to national expenditure on environmental protection, new data published by Eurostat shows.Delving into the details of the statistics, when it ...

A number of Environment NGOs have issued a court judicial protest against the granting of a permit to build a pool extending out into Marsalforn Valley, "as part of the abusive Joseph Portelli development there."In a statement, Din L-Art Helwa, Flimk...

Kremlin-installed officials in occupied southern Ukraine celebrated Russia Day on Sunday and began issuing Russian passports to residents in one city who requested them, as Moscow sought to solidify its rule over captured parts of the country.At one ...

The government is there, amongst many other things, to ensure justice for the people.  To ensure that what is rightfully theirs remains rightfully theirs.  To ensure that things which belong to the people are not abused by the few, and to e...

An American tourist was fined and banned for life from Rome's Spanish steps after causing $26,000 worth of damage by hurling an e-scooter down the heritage site, international media report.The incident, which occurred at around 3:45am Friday, was fil...

Malta’s greylisting is expected to be discussed during the plenary session of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) that will be held in the coming days, The Malta Independent on Sunday is informed. There is as yet no guarantee that the discus...

A staggering 21.2% of the permits which were granted by Malta’s planning authorities in the last 15 years were initially recommended for refusal by the application’s case officer, data tabled in Parliament shows.Data tabled by Planning Mi...

Malta has been under the spotlight of international institutions for quite a while. Not for the right reasons.We have been reprimanded, told to work harder and even punished for our failures. Resolutions have been passed demanding stronger action by ...

A soup kitchen in Valletta serves around 80 to 100 people a day, but according to a priest who runs the place there are many more who need our help, but are not coming forward as they feel humiliated in doing so.The priest, Franciscan Father Marcelli...

153 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Sunday, while two more patients have died while positive for the virus.79 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,6...

Wilfred Owen had called it “the old lie”, as together with other doomed youth he stepped onto the front line in France, during World War I. The meaning of such an anti-war poem became even more evident to two Maltese journalists at the fr...

Ukrainian and British officials warned Saturday that Russian forces are relying on weapons able to cause mass casualties as they try to make headway in capturing eastern Ukraine and fierce, prolonged fighting depletes resources on both side...