A tribute to the late Robert Arrigo was paid yesterday before the game played between Manchester United and Tottenham.Arrigo, a Spurs fan, was remembered ahead of the game on the initiative of Nationalist whip Robert Cutajar, a Man Utd fan.Cutajar to...

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was hanging on to power by a thread on Thursday, after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony.A bot...

The Nationalist Party said that the prison director should be suspended after he was taken to court on charges of pointing a gun at an ambulance driver.Robert Brincau is charged with slight bodily harm, threatening a man with a weapon, insulting...

Magistrate Nadine Lia has been removed from the Pilatus case, the NGO Repubblika said on Wednesday. President Robert Aquilina told journalists outside the law courts that this is a "historic win".This is the first time this has happened that a m...

The Government Whip gave no clear explanation as to why ministers failed to submit 2021 declaration of assets so far.PN MPs Beppe Fenech Adami, Mark Anthony Sammut and Ivan Castillo on Wednesday all took turns asking why ministers' declarations of as...

Some lines of communications between members of the Cabinet, including the Prime Minister, seem to have experienced some issues these past few days.Or maybe the Transport Minister is being kept in the dark as to what the government’s plans are....

A court has decreed it has sufficient prima facie evidence for the Attorney General to file a Bill of Indictment against five men accused of putting Melvin Theuma on the government's payroll.The case against five men accused of putting Melvin Theuma ...

The director of a private ambulance company has testified that prison director Robert Brincau threatened to kill him and his family, in an angry phone call last August.Charlton Caruana was testifying in criminal proceedings against Brincau, 49, who t...

The trapping research period for seven songbird species opens tomorrow, a Gozo Ministry statement read."After considering the Ornis committee's recommendations, the government is announcing the opening of the research project from 20 October until 20...

Over 10,000 sqm of agricultural land in an area known as Ta' Brija, l/o Siggiewi, which over the years was illegally converted into a large scrapyard is once again being returned to its original state after the Planning Authority (PA) started carryin...

The Agriculture Ministry is consulting experts with the aim of controlling the Oriental Hornet's Population, Minister for Agriculture Anton Refalo said in reply to a question made in Parliament by PN MP Jerome Caruana Cilia.In his reply, the minister...

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag refused to let Cristiano Ronaldo overshadow arguably his team's most complete performance under him in a 2-0 win against Tottenham on Wednesday.Ronaldo headed to the changing room before the final whistle at Old...

The Anti Poverty Forum expressed its concern about the sharp increase in the cost of living, including drastic increases in the basics necessities which include basic food items and medication. This hike in costs has highly reduced people’s pur...

Future fathers who are under the age of 18 should be allowed to recognise their child by law, PL MP Amanda Spiteri Grech said on Wednesday.During a parliamentary session, Spiteri Grech, who is a family lawyer by profession, said that she will make it...

Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo refused to reveal the amount that was spent by the Malta Tourism Authority on Isle of MTV 2022.In response to the parliamentary question made by Nationalist Party MP Mario de Marco, Bartolo said that he could not ...

British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without gutting help for the nation’s poorest residents...

The Nationalist Party has called on Prime Minister Robert Abela to publish his declaration of assets, and those of government ministers and parliamentary secretaries for the year 2021."It is unacceptable that, when 2022 has almost passed, the prime m...

Minister for Home, Byron Camilleri revealed that 143 people have committed suicide since the start of 2017.This was in response to a parliamentary question asked by PN spokesperson for Active Ageing, Paula Mifsud Bonnici.Since the start of 2017, ther...

The PN said that it can no longer remain silent at the way elderly patients in St Vincent de Paul are being treated "as prisoners."PN spokesperson for Active Ageing Paula Mifsud Bonnici said that Minister for Active Ageing Jo Etienne Abela had promis...

One of five days of carers leave will be paid, Parliamentary secretary responsible for Social Dialogue Andy Ellul has said.All employees have the right to unpaid carers' leave of five (5) working days per year, to provide personal care or support&nbs...

31 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Wednesday, and no more deaths were recorded.There are currently 345 active cases in the country.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 115,103 Covid cases in the country, of which 113,556 recovered. ...

All eyes will be on the Finance Minister on Monday, as he will be presenting the budget for 2023. We already know, in the words of Clyde Caruana, that we will have no new taxes, but no existing taxes will be reduced or removed. We also know that the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law Wednesday in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed and given additional emergency powers to the heads of all regions of Russia.Putin didn’t immediately spell out the steps that wou...

Malta is backing a proposal to increase the tuna quotas, a government statement read.Parliamentary Secretary Alicia Bugeja Said attended the European Minister Council meeting for Ministers from the agricultural and fishing sectors to discuss various ...

The tenth edition of the Children’s Dreams initiative was launched, in collaboration with the Goodwill Foundation and the Foundation for Social Welfare Services (FSWS).Minister for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children's Rights...

Prime Minister Robert Abela, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech and Speaker of the House Anglu Farrugia saluted the memory of PN MP Robert Arrigo in Parliament on Tuesday evening.Arrigo lost the battle with cancer earlier in the day.The common sentiment...

Long-time Nationalist Party member of parliament and a titan of the Sliema community Robert Arrigo has passed away.He was 67 years old.A prominent businessman and a pioneer in the travel and tourism industry, Arrigo served first as the mayor of Sliem...

Prime Minister Robert Abela will be proposing that Robert Arrigo will be honoured on Republic Day later this year.Arrigo passed away at the age of 67 on Tuesday morning.A prominent businessman and a pioneer in the travel and tourism industry, Arrigo ...

A mental health professional has told a court that the Somali man allegedly abducted and beaten up by police officers in a racially motivated attack last month, had long-standing psychotic tendencies.The compilation of evidence against Rica Mifs...

A court hearing evidence against five men accused of putting Melvin Theuma on the government's payroll, just months after he had helped arrange the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has rejected a request to expunge Theuma's evidenc...

Unless the Nationalist Party does a “Labour” – and co-opt an MP instead of allowing the electoral process to run its course – three PN candidates are vying for the place vacated by Robert Arrigo, who died today.The former PN d...

The father of PN MP David Agius, Twanny Agius, has passed away, Net News reports.Twanny Agius was the President of the Malta Amateur Football Association in 1999, and spent over 20 years in the leadership of the association.Agius had also been a refe...

Tributes have flooded in for “gentleman” Robert Arrigo, who passed away at the age of 67 earlier on Tuesday.Arrigo – who was diagnosed with cancer earlier this summer – was a well-respected figure across the country, having be...

The post-Graham Potter era at Brighton just cannot get going.Make that just two points from four games under Potter's replacement, Roberto De Zerbi, after a lackluster 0-0 draw at home with lowly Nottingham Forest that prompted some jeers f...

Robert Arrigo is the fifth MP to die while serving in Parliament since Independence, The Malta Independent is informed.The other four MPs who died while still serving in Parliament are Pierre Muscat (PN, 1990), Danny Cremona (PL, 1982), Karl Chircop ...

36 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Tuesday, and no more deaths were recorded.Currently, there are a total of 338 active Covid-19 cases.There have been a total of 115,072 Covid cases in the country since the start of the pandemic, of which 113,5...

56 new recruits have joined the police force as constables, after concluding their training course, a government statement read.The training course, that took 6 months in the Disciplined Forces Academy, included physical and academic training.Home Af...

Former Labour Minister Evarist Bartolo writes today that there is still a lot of work to be done to implement the recommendations of the Public Inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.The fifth anniversary of the murder, he writes in...

Malta’s economic success is due to the stability offered by the government, Prime Minister Robert Abela said today.In his speech at the opening of the Malta Future Realised Conference, where the results of the EY survey on Malta’s Foreign...

Twenty-two migrants were found to be in Malta illegally, the police said in a statement.It said that this morning inspections related to illegal migration had continued in St Julian’s.The migrants who were caught without the relative documents ...

There is a lot to be said about Malta’s education system. From being too exam oriented, which could mean that those who learn differently might not be getting their fair chance, to whether we are focusing too little, or from the other end of th...

Malta’s overall Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) attractiveness rating has bounced back to the results seen in 2020, standing at 58%, the EY-Parthenon’s 18th Malta Attractiveness Survey revealed. During the Future Realised Conference on Tu...

A mural dedicated to the memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia was unveiled at the University of Malta on Monday evening.Journalist Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb on 16 October 2017, and the fifth year since her assassination was commemorated on...

Franco Gatti, a member of the Italian singing group Ricchi e poveri, has died, Italian media report.He was 80 years old.Gatti had left the group in 2013 after the death of his son Alessio in 2013.The last time he appeared on TV was in June when, toge...

Why is the Maltese government refusing to provide journalists with the working conditions and institutional protection that would allow them to fully perform their function as watchdogs, the general secretary of the European Federation of Journalists...

Danny Masterson, former star of the long-running sitcom “That ’70s Show,” is about to face three women in court who say he raped them two decades ago at a trial whose key figures are all current or former members of the Church of Sc...

An emotional Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued for millions of dollars in damages, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when he ...

Malta, or, more commonly referred to as the Republic of Malta, is an attractive destination for those who are seeking beauty and charm throughout Europe. Although Malta itself is an island country that is located in the Mediterranean Sea, many refer ...

The compilation of evidence against Jomic Calleja Maatouk, a 36 year-old Żebbug resident accused of plotting to purchase poison and explosives is to continue without awaiting the outcome of a Constitutional case he had filed, a court has ruled.M...

Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo has refused to divulge details on the partnership agreement and its costs between Manchester United and VisitMalta.Bartolo answered a parliamentary question by PN MP Jerome Caruana Cilia, saying that due to the commer...

Prime Minister Robert Abela told Parliament on Monday that justice cannot truly be done if it has been done after many years. Both the PL and the PN spoke in parliament on Monday on the government’s amendments to the Criminal Code to block any ...

Minister for Finance, Clyde Caruana, announced that 80,000 people and 37,000 households will be benefiting from a second cost of living adjustment (COLA).During a press conference on Monday, he revealed that this will be implemented for those people ...

Karim Benzema won the men’s Ballon d’Or for the first time on Monday after a brilliant season with Real Madrid capped by the Champions League and Spanish league titles.Spanish player Alexia Putellas won the women’s trophy for the se...

Gudja United suffered their first defeat of the season as they went down against a spir‐ ited Marsaxlokk side by the odd goal in three, with all goals scored in the second half.It was a very tense match with very nasty tackles and the ref‐...

Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia would not say if the police are or will be investigating allegations of corruption related to the Marsa flyover project.Earlier this month, Times of Malta reported how evidence of a potential corruption in the €...

118 irregular immigrants were deported from the country in September 2022 alone.Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri answered parliamentary questions on the deportation of irregular immigrants, as well as how many people were arrested upon knowledge...

Almost 90% of people use their personal vehicle to travel to their place of work, far dwarfing any other mode of transport, survey results published by the National Statistics Office shows.89% of 174,411 trips done in a single day to go to people&rsq...

In a pre-budget meeting with the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA), Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that in the coming weeks excavation works for the new ITS campus are going to begin in Smart City. Throughout the summer months, a...

MUT President Marco Bonnici questioned a recent Eurydice report which stated that Malta has an average of one teacher for every eight students, saying that the reality is vastly different than that which is being presented. Bonnici said that Eur...

A man has been cleared of charges of trafficking cocaine at a nightclub in 2014, after his unassisted admission was ruled inadmissible and the arresting officers failed to recognise him or the drugs in court, in a case which raises more questions tha...

A statue of Jesus in Girgenti was burned overnight, the NGO Madonna Tal Konsagrazzjoni Girgenti said on Monday.On a Facebook post, the NGO posted photos of the burnt statue, also showing that the cross which was right next to it was also damaged. The...

The University of Malta is waiting to see how much capital expenditure it will receive from the government in the upcoming budget to see how it will proceed on the building of its long-proposed sports complex.This was revealed by University of Malta ...

The PN has proposed two measures for the improvement of the environment in the country, which includes 50,000 square meters added to existing ODZ land each year, and more consistent afforestation in the country. The Nationalist party said that it is ...

‘To protect and serve’ is a motto adopted first by the Los Angeles Police Department in the United States of America and later widely adopted by other polices forces around the globe.  Although the Malta Police Force is not one of th...

Malta on Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, with calls for justice and praise for the courage of a woman whose death shocked Europe and exposed a culture of impunity on the ...

Activists took to the streets of Valletta for a demonstration seeking justice for slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, on the fifth anniversary of her brutal murder.The crowd went from Parliament to the Great Siege Monument, which has become some...

The number of Covid-19 cases in Malta has risen to 320 after 23 new cases of the virus were reported on Monday.Figures by health authorities show that Malta has had 115,036 cases of the virus so far, with 113,514 recoveries.28 new cases of the virus ...

Not only is a sense of leadership in the health sector always required, but so are strong human resources, Prime Minister Robert Abela said, while adding that the government is committed to strengthening this.The Prime Minister held a pre-budget meet...

Waves of explosive-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine's capital as families were preparing to start their week early Monday, the blasts echoing across Kyiv, setting buildings ablaze and sending people scurrying to shelters.The capital's central Shev...

During the third quarter of 2022, sea transport between Malta and Gozo registered increases in passengers and vehicles and a decrease in trips when compared to the corresponding quarter of 2021, the NSO said Monday.Sea Transport between Malta and Goz...

A silent vigil was held at the place where Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed five years ago today.A minute’s silence in Bidnija was followed by readings from pieces which the journalist had written in the run up to the 2017 general election: pi...

Anybody would be a better prime minister than Joseph Muscat was, former Member of Parliament Marlene Farrugia said in an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday.She was asked whether she believes Malta's current Prime Minister Robert Abel...

Media experts Fr Joe Borg and Laurence Grech were critical of the government’s proposed media reform bills as they gave their analysis over how the media sector has changed over the last five years to The Malta Independent on Sunday.Also contac...

Insights is a new data dashboard embedded in the administrator’s portal of Shireburn’s payroll, HR and attendance management solution, Indigo. This new feature leverages Microsoft’s PowerBI, allowing Indigo users to analyse their em...

With all the talk of inflation and war, people do not seem to be addressing the effect this is having on people’s retirement.Retirement is supposed to be a time when an individual can relax and indulge in the life they have built for themselves...

Friday started with the anticipation of a long and arduous trial by jury, involving two men who had been accused of murdering journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.By the end of it, the two men had changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to a com...

We have young people who are programmed to go to exams, and not learning how to live in a society, PN Shadow Minister for Education Justin Schembri said.The Malta Independent on Sunday spoke with Schembri on the current state of the education in Malt...

Nationalist Party Bernard Grech had several angry words for those – both outside and within – attempting to undermine his party, saying that by weakening the PN, one is weakening the country.Speaking at a political activity in Mosta on Su...

Prime Minister Robert Abela, said that the sentencing of the two men accused of being the triggermen for the car bombing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was “another step towards justice”.The two men accused, Alfred and George Degior...

Gzira United kept marching on and are now joint second with Birkirkara after a solitary goal scored by Jefferson de Assis proved to be the winning goal.The Maroons deserved the maximum points since they were the better team all throughout. As regards...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said Liverpool fans needed to improve their aim after coins were allegedly thrown at him — and missed — during his team's 1-0 defeat at Anfield on Sunday.Liverpool, meanwhile, said City fans...

Victor Osimhen continued his comeback from injury with his second goal in as many matches to help free-scoring Napoli beat Bologna 3-2 and move back to the top of Serie A on Sunday.Napoli had to come from behind, and goals from Juan Jesus and Hirving...

Lack of resources and hospital mismanagement are two situations that are causing mental health issues to nurses, Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses president Paul Pace said, insisting that nurses should be offered protection from factors that cause s...

A European Honey-buzzard which hatched in Finland earlier this summer and was being GPS-tracked as part of a post-doctoral research project into the migratory behaviour of Honey-buzzards, was shot down last Saturday near Rabat, Malta, BirdLife said. ...

A woman was arrested on Saturday after she was allegedly found to be trying to import heroin into Malta, the police said.The woman, aged 22, from Portugal, was arrested at Malta International Airport on a flight from Paris.The police said that she wa...

It was a quiet Monday afternoon like any other when news started to filter through that a bomb had gone off in Bidnija.What we immediately started to fear was confirmed just minutes later when it became known that the person who was in the car that h...

She is a familiar face on television, during which she has presented a myriad programmes and for a time also served as a newscaster.Her favourite singer has performed many times in Malta and the team she supports in Malta is an easy guess, although s...

A man was grievously injured early on Sunday after he lost control of the car he was driving and crashed into a barrier.The police said the accident took place in Louis Wettinger Street, Mellieha. At 12.15am.The driver, a 38-year-old man, was driving...

The honeymoon is finished even before any marriage of political convenience in Italy could be formalized.The resounding victory by far-right leader Giorgia Meloni in the Sept. 25 general election isn't sitting well with 86-year-ol...

One of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sisters has said that the guilty plea made by two men accused of killing the journalist arrived “five years late”, but is a step towards full justice.“Their guilty plea is five years late, but y...

The Media Reform Initiative (MRI) notes with satisfaction that, following pressure made by the Institute of Maltese Journalists, the Council of Europe, various international organisations and over 100 journalists, editors and activists in Malta, the ...

Billionaire Peter Thiel, Republican political patron, is said to be seeking Maltese citizenship, the New York Times reports today.Thiel has declared a two-bedroom apartment that he rents himself as his address while he works toward a goal he has...

The two men accused of being the triggermen in the fatal 2017 car bombing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia have pleaded guilty to her murder after a dramatic day at the Valletta law courts, just two days short of the fifth anniversary of the jour...

One of the three sons of murdered journalist Matthew Caruana Galizia said he is relived that two men have been sentenced for his mother’s murder, but he believes that five years is too long.Caruana Galizia was speaking to journalists after two ...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said the conviction of two men in connection with the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was a "step forward", and he promised the government's commitment to see the delivery of full justice.In a statement, Abela ...

Valletta: Chemimart City Gate Pharmacy, City Gate; Marsa: San Raffael Pharmacy, 247, Qormi Road; Żebbuġ: De Rohan Pharmacy, Sant' Antnin Street; Birkirkara: St Jude Pharmacy, 213, Valley Road; San Ġwann: Lourdes Pharmacy, Naxxar Road; ...

For workers and professionals to live a better quality life, it is necessary for the government to invest in new economic niches, said the PN in a statement on Saturday.“In this way we not only create work, but we create better quality work, wi...

On the fifth anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination we should appreciate more investigative journalism’s contribution to supporting democracy. Investigative journalism contributes immensely towards accountability through gr...

League leaders Hamrun Spartans lost their hundred percent record yesterday when they were blocked by a gallant Birkirkara side in a rather tense and nervy match. Although the game failed to produce any goals, it was still a delight to watch with both...