Moviment Graffitti has sent its second letter to five Ministers – those of tourism, of Gozo, of the environment, of lands, and of planning – regarding the situation in Comino, in particular the Blue Lagoon. In the letter, we noted that we...

A bill amending laws relating to IVF has been signed into law by Acting President Frank Bezzina after President George Vella went abroad on Wednesday.Vella and his wife travelled to the United Kingdom on a four-day visit on Wednesday where ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing th...

It took them quite a while to react, but it’s better late than never.A number of lecturers at the University of Malta who teach Maltese, English and mathematics a few days ago expressed their concern that the entry requirements for the Junior C...

A biker and his pillion rider were injured after a crash in St Julian’s on Wednesday afternoon, the police said.The accident took place in Borg Olivier Street at 5.30pm.The police said the biker and rider, an Italian man and woman aged 56 and r...

A magistrate has rejected Repubblika’s request to move a legal challenge it has filed against the Police Commissioner to a closer date. The civil society NGO said Wednesday that Magistrate Nadine Lia has scheduled the first sitting in the legal...

Police officers have given a court their account of the arrest of a wanted man who led police on a dramatic car chase from Hamrun to Marsa last week, detailing how the suspect’s vehicle drove on after colliding with a motorcycle, stop...

Pope Francis arrived in Quebec on Wednesday at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only moving away from religion but explicitly rejecting it, embracing secularization long after their forebears built their identity on the rock ...

A homeless man has been remanded in custody after he pleaded not guilty to charges relating to harassing two 15-year-old girls.Beyene Fessahatsion Weldeabzghi, 31, from Eritrea was arraigned before magistrate Nadine Lia on Wednesday afternoon, accuse...

The man who was stabbed to death in Marsa on Monday has been identified as a 21-year-old Egyptian national, the police said. No further details were given, as per police protocol. A Sudanese man has been charged over the murder. The murder happened a...

The Malta Union of Teachers have declared a trade dispute with the Dominican Order in Malta over the dismissal of headmaster of St Albert the Great College Mario Mallia.In a press conference in front of the school in Valletta on Wednesday morning, Pr...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna has offered to act as mediator between ex-headmaster of St Albert the Great College Mario Mallia and rector of the school Friar Aaron Zahra.Spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Malta told Newsbook, the Church’s media ...

The health authorities reported 97 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, with two patients having passed away while positive for the virus.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,533 of whom 108,677 recovered.Th...

The traffic gridlock in the Pieta area has continued for the third day running as Infrastructure Malta continues its road works in one of the major links towards the capital city.Work started Monday on parts of the northbound carriageway of Independe...

Ġnien Victor Calvagna in Mosta, a space of 4,000 m2 that has been returned to the public, was officially inaugurated by Minister for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli on Wednesday.This space has been transformed into a garden t...

SAN ĠILJAN JP PROJECTS.... 11SIRENS MECCA MARINE....... 7(3-2), (3-2), (1-1), (4-2) San Ġiljan JP Projects stayed in the hunt for their seventh Premier Division knock-out in the last eight years. They defeated Sirens Mecca Marine in an...

The St Albert the Great College board and rector on Wednesday categorically denied the “unfounded allegations that have been circulating publicly, and were also published by certain media outlets, regarding the termination of employment of Mr M...

An Albanian worker was grievously injured on Wednesday after he fell and hit his head while working on a scaffold. The accident took place at the Bulebel Industrial Estate at around 9am, the police said. The casualty, 36, lives in St Paul’s Bay...

The government is acting as a “bully” in the Air Malta situation, the Nationalist Party said on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference, the PN’s spokesperson for maritime affairs and employment, Ivan Castillo, referred to the con...

Former Education Minister Evarist Bartolo said that the dismissal of Mario Mallia from headmaster of St Albert the Great College “because he wanted to set up a social cooperative to enable disabled people to run the school’s canteen&rdquo...

Journalism as a profession needs to be put under a better spotlight, according to Dr Ian Attard, MCAST BA(Hons) Creative Media Production and BA(Hons) Journalism senior lecturer and subject coordinator Speaking about the relevance and the future deve...

The Department for Inclusion and Access to Learning within the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta expressed its solidarity with Mr Mario Mallia following “his outrageous dismissal from St Albert The Great College”.In a statem...

Last Monday, a guide was overheard telling a group of tourists in Valletta that the tour they had booked for – and presumably paid for handsomely – was going to be delayed. The reason for this was that another group of tourists who was to...

President George Vella, accompanied by Mrs Miriam Vella, left Malta early this morning for the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony which will be held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, the Department of Information said Wednesday.Vella's departure ...

Instead of understanding the inclusivity initiatives undertaken by administration at the St Albert the Great College, an individual from the Curia filed a complaint about them which led to the school board putting them to a stop, the school’s n...

Malta has secured an exemption from a European Commission’s regulation that introduces mandatory reductions of 15% for gas use by member states in case of security of supply emergencies. During an extraordinary meeting of the Energy Ministers t...

Mario Mallia, the headmaster at St. Albert the Great College in Valletta, has been dismissed from his post, The Malta Independent can confirm.Mallia held the post of headmaster for 16 years. The school is a Church school run by the Dominican Province...

65-year-old Marsa resident, Mario Degiorgio, brother of Alfred and George Degiorgio, who are indicted over the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, was arraigned in court this morning, accused of extortion and money laundering offences.Police inspector ...

A fault in the radiotherapy machine at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre has forced the government to send cancer patients to a Rome hospital to continue their treatment.Seven of the more urgent cases will be transported to the Italian capital on Tues...

The PN is going to present once more its anti-corruption bill which form part of the recommendations of the Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said at a press conference on Tuesday.The bill will be presented after ...

Lawyers acting on behalf of Zenith Finance and its directors have filed Constitutional proceedings, requesting compensation for damages they claim to have suffered as a result of the protracted compilation of evidence against them.They attributed the...

Malta’s gender corrective mechanism should be revisited before the next general election, an international election monitoring board has said.An international monitoring board from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ...

Two reporters who work with the Labour Party’s media arm ONE TV have each received €9,750 in the form of direct orders from the government, The Malta Independent can reveal.Samuel Lucas and Trischia Falzon received €9,750 each in dire...

In 2021, the total number of inbound and domestic tourists who visited the Gozo and Comino region amounted to 435,907, the NSO said Tuesday. Domestic tourists accounted for 83.8 per cent of total tourism demand within this region. The total number of...

In what is understood to be a first for Malta, three judges making up the Constitutional Court have recused themselves from presiding over the retrial of a constitutional case filed by disbarred former lawyer Patrick Spiteri, as two of them had deliv...

The health authorities reported 141 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, with one patient having passed away while positive for the virus.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,436 of whom 108,171 recovered.The ...

The Malta Independent website has been a victim of spoofing, and a report has been filed with the police for an investigation.In the past hours this office has received information from several readers that their social media feeds included a story w...

Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society...

European Union nations struggled Monday to find common ground on how to wean the bloc off its reliance on Russian natural gas, seeking to appease wary, stressed consumers at home while upholding unity as Moscow turns down the tap.Russian Preside...

We have said it before, and we will say it again: Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg is out of her depth and must go, now. In the latest of a long serious of failures by the office she leads (as well as by the police), it emerged yesterday that a fo...

Just over 27% of Nationalist Party councillors have voted at the end of the second early session of voting for the election of the party’s deputy leader.On Saturday, 10.5% had voted. This moved up to 27.1% in the second round of early voting he...

Two police officers have appeared in court on Monday morning charged over a man’s death whilst in police custody at the police’s Floriana headquarters.28-year-old Stacy Gatt from Żebbuġ and Karl Nikolai Vella Cassia, 35, from Ra...

A former Pilatus Bank official was allowed to leave the country despite being subject to an arrest warrant due to inaction from both the Attorney General and the police, Repubblika claimed on Monday morning.Repubblika President Robert Aquilina filed ...

The roads agency said Monday that the current phase of works that caused widespread traffic will be completed by the end of the week and the entire project will be finished before 11 August.Roadworks being carried out on the main carriageway between ...

A 28-year-old Sudanese man has been charged over the fatal stabbing of man in Marsa on Sunday.Al Mahy Ezzo Saeed, from Darfur, pleaded not guilty to homicide on Monday afternoon. Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit remanded him in custody.The court hea...

Ugandans protesting the rapidly rising cost of living barricaded streets in the eastern city of Jinja, a major center on the busy highway to the country's border with Kenya.Police tried to remove molten tires from the middle of the road, according to...

It is the taxpayer who is paying for the Vitals Global Healthcare scandal, as millions of the public’s money have been stolen, the PN said on Monday in reaction to the latest story exposing dealings around the hospitals deal.The PN’s stat...

The health authorities reported 78 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, with one patient having passed away while positive for the virus.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,295 of whom 107,765 recovered.The to...

The magistrate presiding over what can only be described as the seemingly never-ending compilation of evidence against former Pilatus Bank Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) Claude Anne Sant Fournier, has lambasted prosecutors for failing to e...

Technical faults in the linear accelerators of the Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Hospital, which developed over the weekend, led to the temporary suspension of the radiotherapy service at the Mater Dei Hospital. In a press statement published on Mon...

Next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in Britain, organizers announced Monday, after concluding it is too risky to hold the much-beloved pop extravaganza in the designated host country, Ukraine.The U.K. said the 2023 event would be...

Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar has been appointed as a board member of the Council for Children, according to an announcement published in the Government Gazette.The Council, which falls under the ministerial remit of Minister for Social Policy and Child...

Russia's top diplomat said Moscow’s overarching goal is to topple the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, making Russian war aims more explicit as its forces keep pummelling Ukraine with artillery barrages and air strikes.The...

Roadworks being carried out on the main carriageway between Pieta and Floriana led to traffic chaos on Monday morning for many motorists passing through the centre of the country.Parts of the northbound carriageway of Triq L-Indipendenza between Piet...

Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg is complicit in covering up the Pilatus Bank scandal, and she must shoulder responsibility and resign, the PN said in a statement on Monday.PN Spokesperson for Justice Karol Aquilina said that the Nationalist Party...

PN MEP David Casa has criticised the government for “sticking to the bare minimum” in its implementation of the EU’s Work-Life Balance directive in an opinion piece penned in The Malta Independent.Casa was the European Parliament&rs...

Two people were killed and at least five others were injured after gunfire erupted Sunday at a Los Angeles park where a car show was being held.The LA Police Department said the shooting occurred around 3:50 p.m. at Peck Park in LA's San Pedro neighb...

The National Statistics Office has published figures showing that 137,338 cruise passengers visited Malta in the second quarter of 2022, an encouraging recovery for an industry which was brought to an absolute standstill due to the Covid-19 pandemic....

There are many things which serve as kind of constants in the Maltese news cycle.  One of those, sadly, is accidents at construction sites.Week after week we receive press releases from the police telling us of an accident – generally a fa...

A body of a man was recovered from the sea at Qawra on Sunday afternoon, the police said.The body was noticed at around 5.30pm.In a statement on Monday morning, the police identified the man as an 81-year-old who lives in St. Paul's Bay, saying that ...

Pope Francis began a historic visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church’s efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal fr...

A year has passed since the damning public inquiry into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia was published.The report, published on 29 July 2021, found that the State was guilty of creating and sustaining a culture of impunity which ultimately led to...

Repubblika President Robert Aquilina said he was less than impressed with the government's work since the publication of the Daphne Public Inquiry report a year ago.Aquilina was contacted for comment on his views on the implementation of the board&rs...

A fire broke out on a boat off Qawra point on Sunday, with the four people who were on it being rescued.The Civil Protection Department officers and the Armed forces were alerted after the alarm was raised at around noon.The four people on the boat w...

More than €400,000 is being spent by the government every day in taking care of the elderly, with services ranging from providing homes to offering services that keep the older members of our society within the community, Jo Etienne Abela, minis...

Italian vessels have recovered five bodies and rescued 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, the Italian Coast Guard said Sunday, while European charities reported saving more than 500 more.Some of the ...

Hefty increases in the price of everyday essential products is pushing many consumers to cut their spending on non-essential items, which is leading to a drop in sales, the Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises said.The Chamber was asked for its vi...

The health authorities reported 128 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,217 of whom 107,323 recovered.The total number of deaths is now 785, while the number of active cases...

Infrastructure Malta has failed to complete upgrading work in Marfa Road before the summer months as previously planned, with the remaining part of the project to resume after the hot season ends. The disruption is leading to chaotic situations now t...

Double red flags in swimming zones should never be ignored as there could be dangerous unseen sea currents, Emergency Response and Rescue Corps head of operations Adrian Axiak told The Malta Independent on Sunday.World Drowning Prevention Day is comm...

Alan Montanaro is arguably Malta funniest current actor. His lankiness and often clumsy coordination make him a perfect choice for certain roles. Alan has done it all in theatre but comedy seems to come natural to him.Alan’s name has becom...

“Words that kind of stuck with me and almost sent me down a dark path were 'try and be a bit more normal and life will be easier'. Maybe that person was right because life would have been easier, but then again I wouldn’t have arrived at ...

Government and, by default, the Labour Party have a very efficient communications machine. Some see it close to that of a country where there is some form of dictatorship. The amount of propaganda that is dished out, on a daily basis, is almost asphy...

Max Verstappen won the French Grand Prix on Sunday after Charles Leclerc crashed out while leading, a mistake that dropped the Ferrari driver 63 points behind the defending Formula One champion.Verstappen’s seventh win through 12 races this sea...

Renovation works on the Cathedral Museum in Ċittadella were inaugurated after a €300,000 investment financed by European funds.These renovations were inaugurated by the Minister for Gozo, Clint Camilleri, the Parliamentary Secretary for Eur...

The expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, a declaration that could spur further investment...

Russian missiles hit Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday's airstrikes as a “spit in the face”...

Up to one-third of COVID-19 survivors will acquire the condition known as long or long-haul COVID-19. The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation estimates that long COVID will add as many as 22 million individuals to the U.S. popula...

Pope Francis’ trip to Canada to apologize for the horrors of church-run Indigenous residential schools marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church’s missionary legacy, spurred on by the first pope from the Americas and the discovery of...

Jordan Azzopardi on Saturday was accused of trafficking 130g of cocaine which he disposed of during a police car chase on Friday.Azzopardi, previously out on bail after being accused of running a secret drugs ‘factory’ in Wardija, was arr...

Carmel Cacopardo, Chairperson of ADPD-The Green Party has called for the immediate impeachment of President George Vella after failing to give his assent to the IVF Bill approved by parliament earlier this month.In a blogpost posted earlier today, Ca...

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A three-year-old girl who was riding as a passenger was injured in a traffic accident in Xemxija on Friday afternoon, the police said.The girl was in a Mitsubishi Pajero, which was involved in a collision with a Ford Transit, driven by a 44-year-old ...

Animal Liberation Malta said Saturday that three dolphins died at the Mediterraneo animal park last year in the span of one month. This happened between August and September 2021. This information was kept secret although we know that the Maltese Vet...

The timing of the Sannat horse racing event, to be held in connection with the feast in the locality, has been changed after public uproar.The Malta Independent on Friday reported that the traditional horse racing event in honour of the St Margaret f...

NEPTUNES VIDEOSLOTS.... 5SLIEMA FRANK SALT.......... 6(2-2), (0-1), (1-1), (1-2) It looked like it was going to be another direct encounter lost for Sliema. But Dino Zammit had other plans. He was brought in the team to make the difference and h...

Charles Leclerc used help from Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. to beat Formula One leader Max Verstappen and take pole position for the French Grand Prix on Saturday.Sainz had nothing at stake since he was starting from the back of the grid after m...

The Nationalist Party electoral commission said that 10.5% of eligible councillors voted in the election to appoint the party’s deputy leader.Only one candidate is contesting the post, Alex Perici Calascione, who needs a simple majority to secu...

Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for the export of millions of tons of desperately needed Ukrainian grain — as well as some Russian grain and fertilizer — across the ...

A man was grievously injured in a traffic accident in Mellieha early on Saturday morning, the police said.The accident involved a Volkswagen T-Cross, driven by a 41-year-old man of Mellieha, and a Mazda Demio driven by a 19-year-old woman of Mgarr.Th...

The health authorities on Saturday reported 106 new Covid-19 cases, and two more deaths.The number of cases registered so far in Malta is now 112,089, with 106,878 people who recovered.The number of active cases is now 4,030, while the number of deat...

Another summer has arrived, and Europe is once again baking.Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered last Tuesday amid a heat wave that seared swaths of Europe, as it registered a temperate of 40.2 degrees celsius – ...

Truck drivers and Britons heading off on holiday by ferry faced hours-long waits at the port of Dover on Friday, with authorities blaming French officials for the chaos — a claim France denied.Dover authorities said a lack of French border offi...

ADPD – The Green Party on Saturday expressed its concern about the impact that tourism is having on climate change.Addressing a press conference in Sliema, chairperson  Carmel Cacopardo referred to the impact of tourism and air travel on c...

The drug kingpin Jordan Azzopardi has been re-arrested by police after a car chase developed in Madliena.He was arrested on Friday at around 4pm. The police said in a statement that the man, who resides in Madliena, is being held in connection with t...

Emergency workers recovered three bodies from a school hit by a Russian strike in eastern Ukraine, officials said Friday, one of a string of attacks on the nation.The casualties in the city of Kramatorsk followed a barrage Thursday on a densely popul...

The number of tourists who visited Malta in the second quarter of 2022 was 86% of the total in the same quarter of 2019, before the Covid pandemic hit, a survey carried out by the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association shows.MHRA President Tony Zah...

The ink had barely dried on a presidential decree putting a premature end to the Italian Parliament's term, but that didn't keep Italy's politicians from rushing into campaign mode Friday following the collapse of Premier Mario Draghi’s go...

The murder of journalist Daphne Caruaua Galizia deeply affected the person who blew the whistle on the Panama Papers scandal, according to an interview published by a German media house on Friday.The interview with the whistleblower, who was only ide...