Parliamentary Secretary Alison Zerafa Civelli has drawn anger and ire from Valletta residents, after saying in Parliament that they felt ashamed about saying where they are from.Zerafa Civelli – who is Robert Abela’s sister-in-law –...

The Labour Party on Wednesday marked its first 100 days in office following the general election in March. During a press conference on Wednesday, PL Deputy Leader Daniel Micallef and PL MP Cressida Galea gave a brief roundup of the proposals th...

George Degiorgio has confessed to his role in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, saying in an interview with Reuters that he will not “go down alone” for the murder.Degiorgio told Reuters that the assassination was “just business...

The National Audit Office questioned the lack of documents concerning the 2015 negotiations for a new public transport service provider, with the Auditor General saying that he could not give the process a thumbs up as a result.Auditor General Charle...

How many times has this phrase been uttered in Parliament by MP’s right before they turn any argument into a political football? The phrase is as useful as telling someone not to get offended right before you offend them. Politicians must reali...

A defiant British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling to stay in power on Wednesday after his government was rocked by the resignation of two top ministers, who said they could no longer serve under his scandal-tarred leadership.His first chall...

A court has found that a billing method used by Automated Revenue Management Services Ltd (ARMS) resulted in the illegal over-charging of a Lija resident on his electricity bills between 2016 and 2017.In a judgement which could set a significant lega...

A court has been told that the Attorney General “forced” the police to arraign Pilatus Bank official Claude Anne Sant Fournier while, at the same time, withholding the majority of the evidence collected during the magisterial inquiry into...

The Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise is finalising all the aspects to put into force a new Legal Notice regulating utility bills, as promised in the Budget for this year, the Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.The statement ca...

Two of Britain’s most senior Cabinet ministers resigned on Tuesday, a move that could spell the end of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership after months of scandals. Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid re...

NGO Repubblika has formally called on Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg to issue criminal charges against Pilatus Bank officials, saying that a magisterial inquiry had instructed her office to do so months ago, and that the AG should be held accoun...

The former Faculty of Law Dean, Kevin Aquilina, has said that an independent judicial inquiry should be appointed to investigate the running, output and performance of the Attorney General and her office.The inquiry should be appointed to investigate...

The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) has officially presented National Lottery plc with its licence. The company has become the operator of popular lotteries Lottu, Super 5 and others, taking over from Maltco. The licence is valid for 10 years and is sub...

661 new cases of Covid-19 were found on Monday and three other patients have passed away, according to data published online.There were 251 recoveries, which means that the number of active cases is now 7,781.The total number of cases so far has reac...

For several months now, Birkirkara Hill in St Julian’s has been plagued by a rat infestation.Rats, some of which have grown the size of small cats, roam freely on the pavements on both sides of the road.The problem started several months ago wh...

It says a lot about Novak Djokovic that a two-sets-to-none hole at Wimbledon on a day he was hardly at his best never seemed insurmountable. Not to him. Not to anyone watching.Says a lot about his history of overcoming that sort o...

Local champions Hibernians yesterday suffered a heavy defeat in Ireland against Shamrock Rovers in the first leg of the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.It will be practically impossible for the Paolites to cancel the deficit in th...

Gzira could only obtain a 1-1 draw against Andorra’s Atletic Escaldes in the Conference League yesterday at Ta’ Qali.It was a balanced affair and the result can be considered a fair one. Gzira will now play their chances in the away match...

A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror, poli...

A court has ordered the blocking of thousands of IP addresses which have been identified as having been illegally broadcasting Italian and Spanish league matches via IPTV service subscriptions and will now be blocked from continuing to provide conten...

A number of Santa Venera and Birkirkara residents have been without electricity for over 12 hours after a series of faults in the distribution system.In a social media post, Enemalta said a fault developed on an 11kV underground cable on Monday eveni...

The Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) would have been as high as €16 or €17 per week this year if it wasn’t for government subsidies, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said on Monday.Speaking in Parliament during adjournment time, XCaruan...

At the end of March, General Government debt stood at €8,672.2 million, or 57.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the National Statistics Office said.This equates to an increase of €1.17 billion over the corresponding quarter in 2021, large...

Five organisations on Tuesday launched a crowdfunding campaign for legal actions against the Planning Authority’s decision to approve yet another obscene Joseph Portelli development: a swimming pool in the Marsalforn valley of Gozo on ODZ land....

After more than four months of ferocious fighting, Russia claimed a key victory: full control over one of the two provinces in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland.But Moscow's rout of the last remaining bulwark of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk p...

A gunman who killed three people when he opened fire in a crowded shopping mall acted alone and apparently selected his victims at random, Danish police said Monday, all but ruling out that the attack was related to terrorism.Authorities fi...

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia's largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday.Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on floo...

Final works are underway by Infrastructure Malta to complete a project, with an investment of around €500,000, to embellish the belvedere, the stairs, and the sidewalks in the Saqqajja area in Rabat. This was announced by Min...

It has been a problem for quite a while, but it is clear that the situation has become worse in the past few years.The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses said last week that the shortage of nurses is creating serious problems to the provision of serv...

No request for a free vote on the amendments to the IVF bill was made during Parliamentary Group meetings, the Nationalist Party said. In a statement issued on Monday afternoon, the party reiterated that no request for a free vote was made durin...

Health Minister Chris Fearne announced in Parliament on Monday that an IVF bill that will see the introduction of pre-implantation genetic testing will go back to committee stage and a vote will be taken in plenary on Wednesday.The final vote on the ...

A group of Valletta residents protested in front if parliament against a legal notice allowing for establishments play music till 1am in several streets in Valletta, including some residential areas.Some of the streets included in the legal notice ar...

The nurses’ union said it will be writing to the Health Minister to start a “serious discussion” on staff shortages after a court threw out an injunction filed by the health authorities. Mr Justice Spiteri Bailey ruled on Monday tha...

An Englishwoman drowned in Bugibba on Monday afternoon.The police said they were informed at around 1230pm that a woman had found herself in difficulty while swimming near Triq Dawret il-Gżejjer.Upon arriving at the scene, officers were told tha...

The head of the Nationalist Party’s Equal Opportunities Forum has hit back at MPs who have said they will not back the proposed IVF amendments, saying that some arguments being made are “an insult to people’s intelligence and to cou...

During a press conference held at the Eden Cinema, Malta Comic Con was launched after a two-year absence. The family-oriented, action-packed event will take place over the weekend of the 29th-30th October 2022 at MFCC, Ta’ Qali to celebrate pop...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared victory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, one day after Ukrainian forces withdrew from their last remaining bulwark of resistance in the province.Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Sho...

A 92-year-old woman has been taken to hospital and is at risk of dying after she fell out of a window at the St. Vincent de Paul home for the elderly.Police told The Malta Independent that the accident happened at around 7:30am this morning.The woman...

The Malta Developers Association has said that it will direct its members to continue any construction works that have been brought to a halt due to a lack of LESA officials from next week – irrespective of whether there will be officials or no...

The Chamber of Advocates has blasted a suggestion by three student organisations to give more power to the Justice Ministry when it comes to the issue of law warrants. In a statement, where it referred to a different statement issued by three st...

Prosecutors for the office of the Attorney General have been warned not to bury the evidence against a Pilatus Bank official by exhibiting reams of unnecessary, and in some cases, irrelevant, documentation and witness testimony.When the compilation o...

 Nick Kyrgios stepped into a nearly full Centre Court to polite applause at precisely 1:30 p.m. on Monday, exited about 3 1/2 hours later to a louder ovation and, somehow, the 100-year-old stadium survived the experience...

488 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Monday.275 recoveries from the virus were reported, taking the number of active cases up to 7,374.1,977 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equating to a positivity rate o...

Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations and death rates in recent weeks, signaling the crisis appears to be winding down. But how will it end? Past epidemics m...

A humanitarian NGO based in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is seeking to find sponsors as it expands its operations in the outskirts of the city. The NGO is the same one interviewed by The Malta Independent a few weeks ago. TMI journalists Neil Camill...

A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping mall in the Danish capital Sunday, killing three people and critically wounding three others, police said.A 22-year-old Danish man was arrested after the shooting, Copenhagen police inspector Søren T...

The 12th Edition of the Volleyball Marathon that got under way on Friday was over at midnight on Sunday but not before the sum of €519,721 was raised for Id-Dar tal-Providenza .  The players went through 53 hours of volleyball challenged by...

The Scout Association of Malta has taken umbrage at the use of the term “boy scout” in an opinion piece, saying that the term is “antiquated and derogatory.”The term was used in an opinion piece written by Saviour Balzan on Ma...

A man has been hospitalised with grievous injuries after he fell a storey and a half off the balcony of his residence.Police said that the accident took place at around 4am on Monday in Triq il-Genista in Kalkara.Preliminary investigations showed tha...

A large chunk of an Alpine glacier broke loose Sunday and roared down a mountain in Italy, sending ice, snow and rock slamming into hikers on a popular trail on the peak and killing at least six and injuring nine, authorities said, warning that the t...

Most of us are in agreement: fuel powered cars are destructive to the environment, lethal to pedestrians and drivers, and contribute greatly to climate change, yet imagining a car free future is almost impossible to fathom. The benefits of getting ri...

Romania's Foreign Ministry said Sunday that a tourist from the country was killed in a shark attack while vacationing in Egypt, making it the second shark attack death there in recent days.A 68-year-old Austrian woman died on Friday after l...

The Mosta fireworks factory accident that occurred last month proved that in a moment of crisis, the health and safety regulations did work, former politician Dr Godfrey Farrugia said. What happened at the factory, which was built according to the Pl...

Profiles of children up for adoption cannot be shared because of privacy issues, the Foundation for Social Welfare Services CEO Alfred Grixti, told The Malta Independent on Sunday.“As an entity entrusted by the State with the responsibility of ...

The second Robert Abela government will be celebrating its first 100 days in office this week.They were not uneventful, as the government embarked on its mission to accomplish all that it promised its election campaign.What has stood out is a reduced...

Five hundred new Covid-19 cases were identified on Sunday and one person has died, according to data published online.The number of active cases has now risen to 7,161, while the total number of cases so far ahs reached 104,919. The death toll now st...

The CEO of the Malta Freeport and his wife have been arrested in connection with a police investigation into possible money laundering and corruption, Times of Malta reports.The investigation is reportedly linked with a multi-million euro contract th...

The PN will be voting in favour of embryo testing as part of the government’s amendments to the IVF reform, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said Sunday, but former PN leader Adrian Delia has expressed different opinions.Speaking on a phone call...

Russia claimed control Sunday over the last Ukrainian stronghold in an eastern province that is key to achieving a major goal of its invasion. But Ukraine's president said the fight for the city of Lysychansk was ongoing.If confirmed, a Russian seizu...

Malta 68 Armenia 84 (19-15, 11-24, 18-23, 20-22)There was a bright light shining throughout this final, as the naturalised american, Chris Jones, was unstoppable, and dictated play, to lead the Armenian side to the Gold.This was the first ever compet...

Malta has just emerged from the FATF grey list, something which involved work from a number of institutions, one of which being the MBR. What work was carried out over the course of the past year in order to reflect the recommendations put forward by...

Even knowing what an unusual Wimbledon this has been, what with so many unexpected results and new faces popping up, and so few top seeds — and major champions — remaining, surely Novak Djokovic would not lose to a wild-car...

Carlos Sainz Jr. won his his first career Formula One race on Sunday with a victory at the British Grand Prix — the most dramatic race so far this season. It began with a frightening first-lap crash and ended with intense wheel-to-wheel battles...

Tourism is booming again in France — and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited" or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or ...

Lara Azzopardi will be returning to her character on Ic-Caqqufa later this year, a role which enabled her to win the best female actress award in 2017.A nurse clinical specialist by profession, she wanted to be a vet when she was young and, given her...

Last February, this newspaper carried an editorial which said that questions had to be raised on whether Victoria Buttigieg’s position as Attorney General remains tenable or not.That was in response to a fiasco in court when the prosecution&rsq...

With the latest technological gadgets available for anyone and everyone constantly changing and improving, the lines between generations have become blurrier than ever. What is the cause for this and what is the recipe for this so-called digital agel...

The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month.The timing was not likely a coincidence.While much of the...

 On 5 July, Fortunato Mizzi would have turned 178 years old. Seeing as both his party and country has forgotten about him and his legacy, I took the initiative of at least commemorating some of his achievments.During his life, he fought for thre...

A man was critically injured after a fall on a construction site in Marsascala.The police said the accident happened in Artillieri Street at 9.45am.The man, aged 45 of Qormi, fell down the stairs are hit his head, the police said.He was taken to Mate...

Infrastructure Malta said Saturday that it obtained €21.8 million in European funds for its road projects at Luqa and Kirkop.The agency announced on Facebook that this week the European Commission DG Mobility and Transport awarded Infrastructure...

A man was critically injured on Saturday morning when he fell off a ladder, the police said.The accident took place in a residence in Cameron Street, Gzira, at 8.30am.The man, aged 74, and resident in Gzira, fell off a ladder.He was taken to hospital...

The number of active Covid-19 cases has shot up again, to near 7,000, as 583 new cases were reported Saturday.Three more deaths were recorded, taking the tally to 747.Figures released by the health authorities show that the number of active cases is ...

A dog owner has profusely thanked the police and the Civil Protection Department for their assistance in rescuing her dog after it bolted over a wall and into a ditch after being scared by fireworks.The Malta Police Force Facebook page uploaded the w...

Valletta: New British Dispensary, 109/110, St John Street; Ħamrun: The Cross Pharmacy, 859, St Joseph High Road; Żebbuġ: Tal-Grazzja Pharmacy, Franġisk Farrugia Street; Birkirkara: St Anne Pharmacy, 24, Misraħ Sant’Elen...

An aircraft that crashed in the Mediterranean 80 years ago during World War II has finally been identified as a rare RAF bomber, experts say. The Daily Mail reports that the plane, which came down 1,640 feet (500 metres) off the Italia...

Institutions are there to safeguard our rights but when they do not do their job the people responsible must go, ADPD said Saturday, calling for the resignation of the Attorney General, Victoria Buttigieg.Deputy leader Sandra Gauci said that just thi...

Malta-Azerbaijan 59-52(16-12, 12-15, 11-8, 20-17)After beating them by a basket difference, Malta again had to meet Azerbaijan, in the semis. Another tough encounter, with the visitors having their American naturalised player, Jordan Davis, missing t...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured when he lost control of the bike he was riding and crashed, the police said.The accident took place on Saturday at 6.30am in Aldo Moro Street, Marsa.The biker, a 21-year-old man of Birkirkara, was riding a Kawasa...

The Nationalist Party on Saturday called for changes within the police force to strengthen it.In a statement signed by MPs Joe Giglio and Ivan Castille, spokespersons for home affairs and employment respectively, the PN said police officers are dishe...

Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday.Ukrainian fighters have spent weeks trying to d...

It took 151 attempts for Carlos Sainz to earn his first Formula One pole. Now he'll chase that elusive first win.But starting alongside Sainz on the front row Sunday at the British Grand Prix will be defending F1 champion Max Verstappen, a year remov...

That the price of property has risen drastically over the past years is a well-known fact, but a recent study has given a shocking picture of the real situation. The study, produced by Grant Thorton and Dhalia and published earlier this week, showed ...

Lisa Cassar Shaw has been appointed as the new CEO of the Social Care Standards Authority, the government announced Saturday.The authority regulates standards in homes and care facilities for the elderly.Cassar Shaw will take on the new role as from ...

For the first time in the history of the Malta Ship Registry, Malta has been recognised by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) under the QUALSHIP21 initiative, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Aaron Farrugia, said.This is ...

At a tourism conference in Phuket last month, Thailand’s prime minister looked out at attendees and posed a question with a predictable answer.“Are you ready?” Prayuth Chan-ocha asked, dramatically removing his mask and launching wh...

The World Health Organization's Europe chief warned Friday that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in the last two weeks and urged countries to do more to ensure the previously rare disease does not become entrenched on the continent.And Afri...

Starting in January, Venice will oblige day-trippers to make reservations and pay a fee to visit the historic lagoon city, in a bid to better manage visitors who often far outnumber residents in the historic center, clogging narrow streets and heavil...

#occupyjustice activists symbolically left a bunch of suitcases outside the Attorney General’s office with the message “Ippakkja u Itlaq!” (Pack your Bags and Go!).Buttigieg has been under fire after a series of errors, with th...

The Police Force has published new images of missing Karmenu Fino, as a search for the elderly man continues.The new images include one (above) of what Fino was wearing when he was last seen.Fino was reported missing on Tuesday, and it later emerged ...

Charles Polidano known as ic-Caqnu was arrested on Friday morning for questioning over suspected money laundering and corruption, Times of Malta reports. Polidano, 62, was arrested at his home by officers from the police’s Financial Crime ...

Nobody was injured as an explosion rocked the Bahar ic-Caghaq caravan site on Friday afternoon.Police told The Malta Independent that they received reports of a blast at around 1:15pm – a blast which was subsequently followed by a fire.Three st...

Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge increase in energy costs fueled partly by Russia’s war in Ukraine.Annual inflation in the eurozone's 19 countries hit 8.6% in June, su...

Trustin Farrugia Cann is no longer the CEO at Infrastructure Malta, having only held the position for just over a month.Farrugia Cann said in a Facebook post on Friday that while he appreciated the faith shown in him to serve as the head of Malta&rsq...

A man has been reported missing to the police.He is Salvu Bonnici, aged 70, and a resident in Gudja.Anyone with information is asked to call 21 224001 / 119, or report to the nearest police station.

Land at Smart City with a value of €63 million will be given to Sadeen Group for €15,000 instead of Zonqor land, the Nationalist Party said.Speaking at a press conference, PN MPs Darren Carabott and Rebekah Cilia said that the land for the ...

The election of Joseph Muscat to head the Premier League clubs association is just an excuse to push for the commercialisation of the football stadia premises, independent candidate Arnold Cassola suggested.This corresponds to Joseph Muscat's point 2...

704 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday, as three patients died while positive for the virus.It is the highest number of cases reported since 7 April this year, when 731 cases of the virus were reported.266 recoveries ...

Lassana Cisse’s remains have finally been repatriated to his home country, the Ivory Coast, some three years after he was killed in a drive-by shooting.Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg announced the news on Twitter, stating: “Informed th...