Repubblika President Robert Aquilina has called on Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa not to fall for the political pressure exerted upon him by former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his successor Robert Abela, and urged him to be the commissioner to ...

John Dalli has demanded an apology from NGO Repubblika for associating him with corruption during a protest outside the police headquarters on Tuesday. Dalli’s face was one of numerous to be placarded onto the gates of the police headquart...

217 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday – a tally which sees the number of active cases soar over the 2,000 case mark.Just three people were reported as having recovered and no new deaths were reported in the pa...

Emerging data shows that economic and social inequalities have persisted, indeed grown in the EU in recent years, with peripheral regions especially affected, Alfred Sant has stated in the European Parliament.In an intervention during the European Pa...

Malta being placed on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) red list will not have direct consequences on the country’s tourism sector, Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo told The Malta Independent.Malta was placed...

Prime Minister Robert Abela is saying what he was saying a year ago – that the Covid-19 situation is under control.When he said these words last year, Malta was heading into the second wave of the pandemic, which led to more than 400 deaths and...

Minister Michael Farrugia has been admitted to hospital, days after testing positive for Covid-19.A spokesperson for his ministry confirmed with The Malta Independent that Farrugia is currently in hospital and that he is under observation.Farrugia an...

A court has ordered that DNA tests be carried out on the remains of Tumas Fenech after a prisoner claimed that he is the late businessman’s illegitimate son.TVM reported that prisoner Victor Buttigieg filed a case before the Family Court in 201...

Melvin Theuma has told a court that he had rented a flat to one of the men accused of carrying out the failed HSBC headquarters heist in 2010 as the compilation of evidence reopened this morning.Theuma testified in front of Magistrate Monica Vella in...

Malta needs to be open to negotiations with other countries regarding the international minimum level of taxation, with Finance Minister Clyde Caruana sure that the country will not "give up what it has achieved throughout the past decades -- fa...

Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo has defended the government’s decision to offer vouchers as an incentive for English language students to choose Malta.The way the vouchers for English students worked was that for every night that an English la...

Prime Minister Robert Abela continues to fail when it comes to taking the necessary measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19,  PN Leader Bernard Grech said.Malta was placed on the red list by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Contr...

A toddler suffered serious injuries after falling a storey and a half out of a window on Tuesday morning, police said.In a statement, the police said that at around 10:30am it was informed that assistance was needed in Triq ir-Rattan in Mellieha.Prel...

The lifelong disability of a child like Down syndrome no longer needs to be re-evaluated by a medical board at Agenzija Support when the child turns 16 in order to receive social security benefits, it was announced today.Till now, the guardians of th...

Corks popped, beats boomed out and giddy revelers rushed onto dancefloors when England’s nightclubs reopened Monday as the country lifted most remaining coronavirus restrictions after more than a year of lockdowns, mask mandates and other pande...

The British government has decided not to inoculate most children and teenagers against COVID-19 until more safety data on the vaccines become available.Children as young as 12 with severe neuro-disabilities, Down syndrome, immunosuppression and mult...

The 27-year-old Briton who died in Malta last week after finding himself in difficulty while swimming was a “a warm hearted person who loved life”, friends have said.Chris Dodd, from Runcorn, was reported to have “encountered d...

India's excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the South ...

The World Pro Racing, Development and Entertainment Centre was inaugurated on Tuesday, with an investment of around €300,000. Situated at Montekristo Estate in Ħal Farruġ, Luqa, this new centre seeks to provide opportunities to yo...

A France-based migrant rescue organization soon will be getting medical and other assistance aboard its charity ship in the Mediterranean.The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, known as IFRC, said Monday that its teams ...

The floods seen in Europe last week caused havoc, death and destruction. It was a worrying situation, one that shocked European nations.International news report that climate scientists say the link between extreme weather and global warming is unmis...

For the country to remain attractive to visitors it needs to avoid changing protocols which are introduced or making U-turns as much as possible, as although mistakes are anticipated, the protocols need to be sustainable, CEO of the Malta Hotels and ...

146 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Monday, something of a dip in numbers when compared to recent days.15 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, and with no new deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the number of active cases now stan...

Over 2,400 people received their Covid-19 vaccine at the mobile unit on Monday, the first day that such a service is being provided.The surge in the number of cases must have pushed unvaccinated people to get the jab.Malta has seen a rapid surge in t...

PN Żebbuġ councillor Daniel Cordina has insisted that a boundary wall on private property should be built in accordance with the Law, as this is leading to a rat problem in Triq Frank Debono, Marsalforn, Gozo. In a Facebook post, Cordi...

Nationalist MP Kevin Cutajar was forced to take down a Facebook post where seemed to justify a brutal alleged attack on a Somali man in Gozo by blaming it on a “rapid mixing of cultures” which Gozo is seemingly not ready for.Cutajar was c...

National Book Council chairman Mark Camilleri will be publishing a book which is set to include “previously untold facts about corruption and the government.”He hopes that the new information will lead to new arrests and police investigat...

Sports administrator Louis Borg passed away today. He was aged 85.Well known for being a pioneer in how sport should be part of the education system, he played football and was the founder of the Malta Basketball Association. He remained part of the ...

The case against restaurateurs Florinda Sultana and Albert Buttigieg, who are both charged with money laundering, had to be postponed after the prosecution failed to turn up in court on Monday.Sultana and Buttigieg were, along with their lawyer Stefa...

Lithuania has become the first country to re-impose quarantine restrictions on people entering the country from Malta, only hours after the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) classified the country in its red-list for number of...

A man was remanded in custody on Monday after he pleaded not guilty to stabbing another person in Gozo on Sunday.The incident took place in Triq l-Ewropa in Victoria, at around 4:30pm.The accused, 45, from Victoria, was accused of slightly injuring t...

Malta’s tourism season could take another blow after Malta was placed on the red list by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).The move comes amid a recent surge in the number of Covid-19 cases.Malta currently has over 1...

Police are set to charge a Maltese man for allegedly beating a Somali man before throwing him into the sea in front of a cheering crowd in Gozo.TVM reported that the man – a Maltese national – will be charged with the incident, where the ...

Corinthia Hotels submitted plans to build a low-lying, highly landscaped resort on the site currently occupied by the disused Hal Ferh Holiday Complex, the company said in a statement.The development will comprise a top-tier 5-star hotel having 162 k...

Minister for Education Justyne Caruana has announced that a pilot scheme to extend the hours and days of government run childcare centres will start operating at six centres starting from October 2021.The participating centres in this scheme will ext...

The Planning Authority is set to decide on three planning applications proposing apartment blocks on Thursday.One apartment block is located in Naxxar and is separate from the other two, which form part of a masterplan in an area in St Paul’s B...

PN Whip Robert Cutajar has written to the Chairman of the Parliamentary Economic and Financial Affairs Committee requesting that an urgent meeting be called to place a discussion about the FATF report greylisting Malta on the agenda.This came after P...

Moviment Graffitti is calling for an investigation into expropriations carried out by Infrastructure Malta after the roadworks agency was “again caught trespassing onto a farmer’s land in Żabbar without having reached any agreement w...

Just as the European Union was announcing plans to spend billions of euros to contain climate change, massive clouds gathered over Germany and nearby nations to unleash an unprecedented storm that left death and destruction in its wake.Despite ample ...

Far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported from Australia after she boasted on social media that she planned to breach the country's quarantine rules, an official said on Monday.Hopkins traveled to Australia to appear in a reality t...

A Maltese man was grievously injured in a fight with a Serbian man in St Paul’s Bay on Sunday afternoon, the police said.The fight took place at 2.20pm in Port Ruman Street.It involved a Maltese man aged 59 and a Serbian man aged 39, both resid...

During an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday, PN MP Mario de Marco said that the party had not received any real feedback from the government on the idea of setting up a national task force to tackle Malta’s greylisting.This newsroo...

It will take at least 67 more years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media worldwide if everything stays the same, a global media monitoring project revealed.In 2015, the period remaining to achieve complete gender equalit...

Recently laid electricity and water services, together with skyrocketing land prices, have raised the spectre of development at rural Wardija. Over the past weeks, one of the rural lanes in Wied Safsafa has been dug up, water and electricity connecti...

The government has a lot to answer for after Malta was greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force, but the solution requires a national effort, PN spokesperson for Finance Mario de Marco said.The MP was answering a question about the Nationalist P...

Minister for the Elderly Michael Farrugia has tested positive to Covid-19.The minister announced the infection on his Facebook page.The minister said he will be in quarantine for the next two weeks.

195 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Sunday, as the number of active cases rose to 1,832.Just five people recovered from the virus.This means that the total number of cases reported in the country since the start of the pandemic now stands at 32...

With 81 per cent of the population fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Malta remains the top country per capita in this particular category, international media report.Nearly another six per cent have received the first dose, a report on Greek Reporte...

Sparkling wine, confetti, a midnight countdown: It’s not New Year’s Eve, but it might as well be for England’s clubbers. After 17 months of empty dance floors, the country’s nightclubs are reopening with a bang.From London to ...

As English language schools were forced to close last Wednesday and with most of them switching to online teaching, parents of children who are learning in Malta feel that they are being “scammed”, one parent told The Malta Independent. L...

It was a night to remember.For the winners, and the losers too.The Italians will remember it as the night when they won their second European championship, 53 years after their first.The English will remember it as the night when their dreams of winn...

Malta is planning repatriation flights for 250 Italians who are being held in quarantine after testing positive to Covid-19 or having been in touch with an infected person, Italian news agency Ansa reports.Apart from Italian nationals, a number of Ge...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said that the low number of Covid-19 cases in hospital confirms that the situation is under control.Speaking on ONE Radio on Sunday, Abela said that "although the pandemic remains a struggle, from what health experts are t...

Prime Minister Robert Abela needs to denounce Joseph Muscat's legacy for the honour and reputation of the country and for the dignity of the people, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said on Sunday.Speaking in a brief radio interview on NetFM, he was a...

Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday.An official with the South African soccer team also tested positive, as did a fourth memb...

Thousands of Gozitan families have received their water conservation kit over the last seven weeks, as part of the national conservation campaign: 'Water - Be the Change', which was touring localities in Gozo.Through this campaign, more than 12,000 G...

Beppe Galea has been elected chairman of Europe's largest youth political organisation on Saturday.Galea won the European Democrat Students (EDS) post with 98% of the vote.This is the first time that a Maltese is occupying such a position. He will le...

A man was grievously injured in a motorcycle accident on Triq Valletta, Qormi at 1pm on Saturday.The 51-year-old man from St Paul's bay was involved in an accident with another vehicle.The man was taken to Mater Dei Hospital. Investigations are ongoi...

The past two weeks have been truly chaotic with regard to Covid-19 and travel, with the scenario changing so fast and often that it was hard, if not impossible to keep up.The rapid changes did not only leave us scratching our heads but also gave Malt...

Over 100,000 people protested across France on Saturday against the government’s latest measures to push people to get vaccinated and curb rising infections by the delta variant of the coronavirus.In Paris, separate protest marches by the far-r...

Rescue workers labored to deal with damage laid bare by receding water Saturday as the death toll from disastrous flooding in Western Europe rose above 160 and thoughts turned to the lengthy job of rebuilding communities devastated in minutes.The dea...

In 2020, the MFSA issued a Discussion Paper proposing a comprehensive, enforceable cross-sectoral Corporate Governance Code for listed entities and persons authorised by the Authority. The Authority put forward several proposals regarding the scope a...

The Labour government has buried the country in the same problems that it was facing 30 years ago, and the time has come for it to re-emerge with stronger foundations under a Nationalist administration, PN leader Bernard Grech said Satuday.Closing th...

Two hundred and six new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Saturday, with five patients who have recovered, health authorities said.The sharp rise in the number of active cases continues to reach 1,642, when just two weeks ago the number was only 23.In ...

The Health and Tourism Authorities are proceeding with technical arrangements for the verification of the United States CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card.As from Monday 19th July 2021, Malta will recognise the United States CDC COVID-19 Vaccinatio...

A man was seriously injured in a traffic accident in Attard on Friday afternoon, the police said.The accident took place in Mdina Road at 4.30pm.It involved a Subaru Sambar driven by a 41-year-old man of Marsascala and a Seat Arona driven by a 28-yea...

Mark Anthony Sammut has been confirmed as president of the Nationalist Party general council.He was confirmed with 79% of the votes cast.The PN also elected its executive committee members:Paula Mifsud Bonnici – 845 votes Julie Zahra – 82...

European nations are scrambling to ramp up vaccination drives, using a carrot-and-stick approach to persuade the reluctant to get their shots as the more transmissible delta variant drives a surge in infections.Greece became the latest to enact new r...

The Italy-England Euro 2020 final is still grabbing headlines and a meme used by the Malta police force may lead to some controversy on the social media.To warn against strong winds this weekend, the Malta Police uploaded a meme showing Italian defen...

The Office of the President said that Mrs Miriam Vella, the wife of the President of the Republic, was discharged from Mater Dei Hospital this afternoon after she was admitted to hospital for observation last Tuesday. Tests showed she was suffering f...

A €500,000 regeneration project in Santa Luċija has been announced by Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Miriam Dalli.Addressing a press conference at an unused part of the Garden of Serenity, Minister Miriam Dalli ...

The U.K. recorded more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in six months Friday amid a warning from the British government’s top medical adviser that the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 could hit “quite scary&...

What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors.Just 7% of our genome is un...

The death toll from disastrous flooding in western Europe rose above 150 on Saturday as rescue workers toiled to clear up the devastation and prevent further damage.Police said that more than 90 people are now known to have died in western Germany's ...

A post on Facebook advertising free lessons has angered the Union of Professional Educators.The post was uploaded by Audrey Demicoli, a Labour Party candidate."What does it take to become a professional teacher? Not much, according to Audrey Demicoli...

A man was seriously injured in a traffic accident in Attard on Friday afternoon, the police said.The accident took place in Mdina Road at 4.30pm.It involved a Subaru Sambar driven by a 41-year-old man of Marsascala and a Seat Arona driven by a 28-yea...

Max Verstappen out-dragged Lewis Hamilton at the start of Formula One's experimental first sprint qualifying race to take the pole for the British Grand Prix and spoil the homecoming of the seven-time champion.Hamilton initially seemed fine with the ...

The Malta Chamber’s Sustainable Mobility committee agreed on a pathway towards the electrification of the vehicle fleet, the chamber said in a statement.In view of the proposed national cut-off date for Malta to phase out fossil fuel vehicles, ...

Many interesting and relevant points were raised on Thursday during a public consultation conference organised by MIMCOL on the country’s economic vision for the next ten years. The vision, unveiled some weeks back, aims to boost Malta’s ...

One cannot tolerate public discrimination and hate speech in the EU against LGBTI citizens and other minorities and it is even more unacceptable that such discrimination and injustice is being set into a national law, as in Hungary, Alfred Sant state...

The European Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, ITRE, voted in favour of a report based on public private partnerships at European level in order to allow the European Union and member countries to engage in private partnership...

Festivals Malta has announced the dates of the second edition of ‘Mużika Mużika’, which will take place on 24, 25 and 26 March 2022.The follows the much-awaited return of the Festival Kanzunetta Maltija with the first ...

Minister for Social Accommodation Roderick Galdes announced the first intergenerational housing project in Malta.This project, established by a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Housing Authority and Salesians Don Bosco, will start in a few w...

In one flooded German town, the ground collapsed under family homes. In another, floodwaters swept through an assisted living center, killing 12.Rescue workers across Germany and Belgium rushed Friday to prevent more deaths from some of the Continent...

235 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported by health authorities, while new details have been given about the cases reported on Thursday.6 people have recovered, while no new deaths were – for another day – recorded in the last 24 hours...

The AMP Lost & Found festival has been postponed for another year as organisers blame uncertainty on travel international and an unclear past to hosting mass events for the decision.The festival, which takes place at Café del Mar in St. Pa...

A 46-year-old man has been reprimanded by the court after it ruled that he insulted and threatened Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi.John Borg, a loyalist to former Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia, had been outside party headquarters waiting for t...

Brothers Robert and Adrian Agius, known as Tal-Maksar, and their associate Jamie Vella have been denied bail by the court.In a ruling delivered today, Magistrate Caroline Farrugia Frendo turned down their bail requests. She insisted bail is not an au...

Thursday’s newly recorded cases saw 56 Maltese Nationals test positive for Covid-19, while more than 50% of the cases were tourists, the Health Ministry informed The Malta Independent.Malta is continuing to see a surge in new Covid-19 cases. Mo...

Virtu Ferries have issued a set of guidelines for travellers to Sicily after the regional president ordered mandatory testing for Covid-19.Sicily region president Nello Musimeci signed the decree on Wednesday, Italian news agency Ansa reports.The sam...

A young British man died while swimming in a pool in St Paul’s Bay on Thursday evening, the police said.In a statement, the police said it was informed at 7.45pm about a person who found himself in difficulty while swimming in a pool in Triq it...

The government has announced a €1 million investment project that is set to see the installation of the latest technology LED lighting in the fortified city of Mdina. This investment is part of a larger €3 million project aimed to beautify ...

A woman suffered grievous injuries when she was hit by a car in Pieta last night.The police said that the accident took place in Triq ix-Xatt at around midnight.The woman, aged 61 of St Julian’s, was hit by a Peugeot driven by a 53-year-old man...

Public Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci has in many ways been the face of Malta’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.With tireless work and a no-doubt packed schedule, for many months when the pandemic first hit Malta she faced the public...

More than 60 people have died and dozens were missing Thursday as severe flooding in Germany and Belgium turned streams and streets into raging torrents that swept away cars and caused houses to collapse.Among those killed were nine residents of an a...

Italian lawmakers approved renewed funding to train the Libyan coast guard as a human rights group released a report Thursday outlining fresh accusations that the coast guard returns the migrants it rescues at sea to horrific detention camps in the N...

222 cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Thursday, with no details being given on where these cases have emerged from.With 10 recoveries and no new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, the number of active cases currently stands ...

The public inquiry board into the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has drafted its report.The board, made up of retired judge Michael Mallia along with former chief justice Joseph Said Pullicino and Madam Justice Abigail Lofaro, sai...

In the presentation of the strategy ‘A Future Proof Malta’, Minister for Economy and Industry, Silvio Schembri, said that the Government is willing to listen to all stakeholders to ensure a sustainable economy for Malta, but given its siz...