An application for a garden centre which would take up just over 7,500 square metres of agricultural land will be decided by the Planning Authority on Tuesday.The site of the application is at the end of Sqaq tal-Hofra in Attard on what is described ...

Police recruits who have tattoos should, under a reform which forms part of the transformational strategy of the Police Force, be allowed to join the corps, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri said on Monday.Taking to his Facebook page, Camilleri s...

The Armed Forces of Malta said that it had intercepted two Tunisian fishing boats in Maltese waters on Sunday.The boats were found to be fishing in Malta’s Fisheries Conservation and Management Zone west of Gozo.The two fishing vessels were boa...

As dozens of African migrants traversed the Mediterranean Sea on a flimsy white rubber boat, a small aircraft circling 1,000 feet above closely monitored their attempt to reach Europe.The twin-engine Seabird, owned by the German non-governmental orga...

One of the cornerstone measures for curbing the Covid-19 pandemic has been the wearing of face masks.For a number of months, it was mandatory for everyone the moment they stepped outside of their doorstep.  Even now, with over 90% of those eligi...

Describing someone’s legacy is tough, especially when one is talking about one of Malta’s fiercest pens, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was brutally killed four years and a day ago in a car bombing.It is a legacy which one might say is shape...

Staff shortages is forcing some hotels to keep rooms empty, while at the same time facing demands for higher wages, President of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association Tony Zahra said.Zahra was contacted by The Malta Independent on Sunday after...

Lamin Jaiteh, the injured construction worker who was found dumped on the pavement with grievous back and arm injuries, has been discharged from hospital, the woman who found him said on social media on Sunday.In a case which shocked the country and ...

The campaign of spoof callers against individuals involved in the Daphne Caruana Galizia case and in the media scene has continued, despite police investigations – with Jason Azzopardi saying that they have now resorted to using Daphne Caruana ...

10 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Sunday.18 people, meanwhile, have recovered, meaning that the number of active cases has gone down to 271.11 patients are currently being treated at Mater Dei Hospital, with one person i...

Four years ago, Malta was in shock.Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had been brutally murdered metres away from her home in Bidnija.Her car had been blown up.Within minutes, Malta was at the centre of the world’s attention.Intern...

Monday’s budget presentation by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana saw a bumper attendance of MPs – but it ultimately wasn’t the government’s plan for the coming year which caught the eye for some, but more it was the fact that ma...

Newcastle will have to get used to the taunts they faced from Tottenham fans.“No noise from the Saudi boys," they chanted at St. James' Park.The celebratory noise quickly faded Sunday from the supporter base now directly associated with the Sau...

Victor Osimhen soared in for a towering header nine minutes from time and Napoli extended its perfect start to Serie A with a 1-0 win over Torino on Sunday.After Napoli captain Lorenzo Insigne had seen his weak first-half penalty attempt saved and Gi...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech criticised the government on Sunday, saying that the Nationalist Party will not allow Castille to manipulate people and present the government’s lies as the truth, nor will it allow the Labour government to feel ...

Hibernians easily disposed of bottom of the table side Sliema thanks to a brace by the best player on the field of play Jurgen Degabriele and thanks to a great goal from Wilfried Domoraud, who had a very good performance yesterday.Jurgen Degabriele c...

Elena Grech, the head of the European Commission Representation in Malta, would have loved to spend some time living in a top European city.When she was young, she imagined herself in a completely different profession than the one she took up later i...

The budget for 2022 was presented last Monday and, as usually happens each year, it was dissected by the constituted bodies and the public at large. It has been described as a social budget, one that looks mostly at the lower ends of society, and one...

A small section of stand at Dutch top-flight club NEC Nijmegen's Goffert Stadium collapsed Sunday as fans of visiting Vitesse Arnhem celebrated their team's 1-0 victory. There were no reports of any injuries.Arnhem players were celebrating on the pit...

A 57-year-old woman suffered grievous injuries after she fell into a quarry early on Sunday morning.Police said that the woman, from Marsascala, fell into the quarry while she was walking along a narrow pathway with some other people.The quarry is lo...

John was born on 7 April, 1941, son of Paul and Innocenza. He is married to Pawlina nee Mangion. They first met when John was an 11-year-old and she was still 9.‘It wasn’t an easy ride to get her since at that time parents were rather str...

In a vigil held four years since the tragic death of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, President of NGO Repubblika Robert Aquilina said that although certain progress has been made, the police commissioner and attorney general should “take tho...

The fourth anniversary of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia is being commemorated today.The investigative journalist was killed in a car bomb outside her home in Bidnija on 16 October, 2017.Her murder had triggered a political crisis which,...

A man fell to his death on a construction site in Hamrun on Saturday morning, the police said.The man, a Bulgarian aged 50, who resided in St Paul’s Bay, fell three storeys.He was certified dead on site by a medical team.The accident took place...

An elderly man was critically injured after falling one storey on a construction site.The accident took place in Clarence Street, Pieta’, on Saturday at 12.15pm.The man, aged 77 of San Gwann, was given first assistance before being taken to hos...

Valletta: Royal Pharmacy, 271, Republic Street; Marsa: Vivien Pharmacy, Patri Magri Street; Qormi: Drugshop Dispensary, Vjal De La Cruz; Birkirkara: Remedies Pharmacy, Tumas Fenech Street; Gżira: O'Hea Pharmacy, 128, Manoel de Vilhena Street; St...

Eight new Covid-19 cases were registered on Saturday, while 19 patients have recovered, health authorities said.Ten patients remain in hospital, down from 11 on Friday, with one in intensive care.The number of active cases has dropped slightly to 279...

Russia’s daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1,000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections.The national coronavirus task force on Saturday reported 1,002 deaths in the previous day, up from 999 on F...

The announced 2022 Budget measures for the Ministry of Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development (MESD) will aim create new opportunities, support enterprises, strengthen the energy and water sector and offer a better quality of life through mor...

A goal by Yuri Messias six minutes from time gave Gżira United a narrow win over troubled Ħamrun Spartans. It was a hard fought contest with the Maroons finally edging through as Ħamrun suffered their fourth defeat out of six matches. ...

There seemed to be no route to goal for Mohamed Salah when he received the ball at a standing start just inside the area with three opponents around him.The Liverpool forward is in the form of his life, though, and after a series of feints, deft touc...

A controversial goal led to Inter Milan's first defeat of the season in a 3-1 loss at Lazio in Serie A on Saturday.Felipe Anderson scored a late winner while Inter fullback Federico Dimarco was down injured.The goal infuriated Inter but the rules say...

Four years ago today, at around 3pm in the afternoon, a bomb went off and the country came to a halt.That Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally assassinated because of the stories she was working on as a  journalist is today, and in truth always h...

Moviment Graffitti today described the Electrogas power station project a “blood-soaked deal”.In an activity just outside the power station in Delimara, on the fourth year anniversary from the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination, th...

A prisoner serving time has been caught with a dossier with information about the children of politicians, journalists, TV personalities, members of the judiciary and other prominent people in society, TVM reports.The information, which also includes...

Today marks four years since the brutal murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb attack in Malta that shook the world, a group of civil society organisations said.“Our thoughts are with Caruana Galizia’s fam...

Leaders from across the political spectrum came together Saturday to pay tribute to a long-serving British lawmaker who was stabbed to death in what police have described as a terrorist incident.Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the leader o...

Robust journalism is essential for a healthy democracy, ADPD chairman Carmel Cacopardo said on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the brutal killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.During an activity held today, Deputy Secretary General S...

Protests erupted in Italy on Friday as one of the most stringent anti-coronavirus measures in Europe went into effect, requiring all workers, from magistrates to maids, to show a health pass to get into their place of employment.Police were out in fo...

Everyone should have access to technology and the internet, including those in the most vulnerable layers of society or in remote and peripheral regions, MEP Josianne Cutajar said . As well as being an important digital right, we should seriousl...

A court in Naples has convicted the captain of an Italian commercial ship of abandonment-related charges for returning 101 migrants rescued at sea to Libya in 2018, in a ruling praised by human rights organizations.But the court absolved the captain ...

An Egyptian man was charged in the Gozo courts with causing slight injuries to a third party.The police said in a statement that the man, aged 28, a resident of Munxar, was accused of causing slight injuries to a man on 15 October and of carrying a p...

A long-serving member of Parliament was stabbed to death Friday during a meeting with constituents at a church in England, in what police said was a terrorist incident. A 25-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attack, which united Britai...

A number of Covid-19 restrictive measures are to be eased as from Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne announced.The Covid-19 situation remains under control, Fearne said. He said that since the Covid situation is under control, and a high numb...

British Conservative lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death on Friday during a routine meeting with constituents at a church in eastern England, an attack that united the U.K.'s fractious politicians in shock and sorrow. A 25-year-old man was arre...

The government’s discussions with Steward Health Care have not yet concluded, but they are close, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne confirmed with The Malta Independent.In September Fearne had also said that the two sides were close. The budge...

Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne kept his lips tightly sealed as to when an election will be called.Asked if he could give an indication as to when the election would be called, whether it would take place in November given the uncertainty the situ...

The Embassy of the United States of America has called for a “thorough, transparent, timely, and credible conclusion to the investigations into the murder” of Daphne Caruana Galizia. In a statement on the eve of the fourth anniversar...

The work to build an enabling environment for press freedom should follow a clear timeline aimed at bringing about cultural, political and legislative reform, the Daphne Caruana Galizia said Friday. “As we approach the fourth anniversary of Dap...

The number of hospitalisations of Covid-19 patients has returned to double digits as 25 new cases of the virus were reported by health authorities on Friday.24 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently st...

Malta would have faced a downturn in tourism even if the Coronovirus pandemic had not hit, as the number of available beds was growing higher than the actual demand, a study presented to the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association shows.Presenting t...

Orsetta Spinola, a member of CHANCE (Civil Hub Against Organised Crime), said on Friday that the true assassins of Daphne Caruan Galizia are still at large.Working with Repubblika, Libera, CHANCE and the European Network of Civil Society Organisation...

British health officials said Friday that 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have the coronavirus because of problems at a private laboratory. The U.K. Health Security Agency said the Immensa Health Clinic Ltd. lab in the ...

The time has come for the national broadcaster to be independent of government, Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech said today.He was speaking to journalists after meeting the Broadcasting Authority members, a day after he urgently requested to me...

The Air Malta flight transporting 135,690 AstraZeneca vaccines to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, has arrived, Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo said on Facebook.In a statement on Thursday, the airline had said that the charter flight was the longest non-st...

The sprawling Marbella estate where Boris Johnson has been staying this week, lent to him by environment minister Zac Goldsmith, has been held by an opaque offshore structure with links to Malta, The Guardian reports.The Pandora Papers “su...

The University of Malta Faculty of Laws has removed all capping of students for Master of Advocacy elective units following the chaos created on Thursday. Law students enrolled in the M.Adv course can now register for elective units of their choice a...

The Malta Police Union has issued industrial directives instructing officers to cease from helping Transport Malta and LESA to move cars which are obstructing certain areas.The union said that since Transport Malta officials have as much powers as th...

The suspect in a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people and wounded three in a quiet Norwegian town this week is facing a custody hearing Friday. He won't appear in court because he has confessed to the killings and has agreed to being held in ...

Antonio Palumbo, who heads Palumbo Shipyards, has won a lengthy eight-year legal battle in Sicily after the Messina Court of Appeal this week overturned his conviction in a case involving the illegal dumping of waste, the company said in a statement....

Following a decision by the ORNIS Committee not to recommend the opening of a finch trapping season this year, the Framework Law that permits such a research derogation has been repealed a few hours ago through Legal Notice 387 of 2021, BirdLife Malt...

The EU needs rules against vexatious legal actions intended to silence critical voices, according to the Parliament's Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs committees.In a draft report endorsed on Thursday with 63 votes for, 9 against, and 10 abstentions...

Konrad Mizzi’s refusal to attend Public Accounts Committee sittings that are delving into the Electrogas project is an insult to the people and to all Parliamentarians.Mizzi played a key role in the project, which was under his responsibility a...

A court has rejected government's effort to muzzle two teachers’ unions, turning down an application for a warrant of prohibitory injunction that would stop industrial action by educators.The State had filed for the injunction against teachers&...

Business & Professional Women (Valletta) Malta (BPW) on behalf of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW),  the Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society (MFWS) and Women Political Leaders (WPL) are pleased ...

A Nationalist Party study found that 80% of electricity bills issued by Enemalta have been miscalculated and overcharged people by amounts varying from €10 up to €300. PN chief spokesperson Peter Agius said that he “dreams of a day wh...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has written to the Broadcasting Authority, asking for an urgent meeting to be held no later than 15 October, over the situation at PBS.The meeting was called due to the circumstances within PBS, “where there is a...

Maltese language film Luzzu has been chosen as Malta’s Oscar candidate for the Best International Feature Film category in the prestigious film competition.The Malta Academy Selection Committee chose the film as its entry to the 94th Academy Aw...

19 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported by health authorities in their daily update.15 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 289.9 patients are currently receiving treatment at Mater Dei...

Air Malta will transport 135,690 AstraZeneca vaccines to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, in what will be the longest and farthest non-stop flight.In a statement, the airline said that the charter flight to Kigali will carry 135,690 AstraZeneca vaccines don...

Both of the fast ferry services which connect Gozo to Valletta have been suspended owing to the inclement weather hitting the Maltese islands.Virtu Ferries announced that “due to unfavourable sea conditions” they had to suspend their serv...

Independent authorities will be set up to manage the aviation, maritime and land sectors, which will replace Transport Malta as we know it today, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg said.Addressing a press conference, Borg said that this was...

Thirty-two irregular migrants who were held aboard Captain Morgan and Supreme Cruises' tourism boats in 2020 filed an application before the First Hall of the Civil Court in its Constitutional Jurisdiction , arguing that their human rights were breac...

Teatru Malta has launched their new season programme, featuring a production in commemoration of Oliver Friggieri a year after his death. Teatru Malta’s artistic director Sean Buhagiar, Minister for the National Heritage, Local Government ...

There is no reason why the site earmarked for the American University of Malta’s Zonqor campus and the Inwadar Park announced during the Budget should overlap, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has said.Speaking in an interview with The Malta Inde...

Geologist Peter Gatt has questioned why Malta has seemingly given up on oil and gas exploration, especially when the country’s Mediterranean counterparts have discovered such reserves in the last decade or so.Gatt was reacting to a statement ma...

The police were called out to the homes of Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi and a journalist in the early hours of Wednesday, after receiving spoof calls impersonating their numbers and indicating that they were in distress.The incident is an escalatio...

The Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism was awarded to the journalists from the Pegasus Project coordinated by the Forbidden Stories Consortium. The award ceremony held in the Press Centre of the European Parliament was opened by the Preside...

Law students camped outside their faculty office overnight to secure their course choices after the capping of places in elective study units.Some students are known to have spent the whole night outside the faculty door, while others who turned up i...

The Nationalist Party said today that the recent changes at the top posts of Enemalta are nothing more than a continuation of Joseph Muscat's legacy and a smokescreen for scandals and abuse.“The appointment of Jonathan Cardona is a&nb...

Norway’s domestic security agency says a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people appears to have been an act of terrorism.The agency, known by its acronym PST, said Thursday that Wednesday night's attack in a small Norwegian town “cu...

Bojan Cmelik has been convicted of the 2018 murder of Hugo Chetcuti by a jury of his peers and sentenced to life imprisonment with periods of solitary confinement.Mr. Justice Aaron Bugeja read out the judgment in court, taking just under an hour.A pe...

The Malta Independent on Sunday, last Sunday, reported that Labour Party MP Silvio Grixti received a direct order worth €37,200 from Transport Malta.The payment was for “consultancy fees” which, in the words of Grixti himself, transl...

An elderly woman was grievously injured when she was hit by a car in Floriana on Wednesday evening, the police said.The accident took place in St Publius Street at 7.20pm.The woman, aged 86 of Naxxar, was hit by a BMW 1161 driven by a 22-year-old man...

Romanian doctors sent an open letter Wednesday titled “a cry of despair” as the country's overwhelmed and deteriorated health care system copes with a record-setting surge of coronavirus infections and deaths.The College of Physicians of ...

MP Konrad Mizzi has again ignored a request by the Public Accounts Committee to appear before it to respond to questions about his role in the controversial Electrogas power station project.This is the second time he failed to appear before the commi...

New appointments have been made at the helm of Enemalta, with Jonathan Cardona taking over as CEO and Jonathan Scerri being appointed chairman.The company confirmed the appointments in a statement, saying that they had come into effect as from Monday...

65- year-old Antony Vella has been served with a suspended sentence together with a €20,000 fine and a ban on owning pets after eight of his dogs were found neglected in his Zejtun home. Vella was sentenced to two years imprisonment, suspen...

A 32-year-old Colombian DJ residing in Paceville has been denied bail after being accused of rape after meeting the alleged victim at a nightclub. The accused and the victim’s name could not be revealed due to a court ban. Magistrate ...

18 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities, as the number of people in intensive care has dropped to zero.13 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 285.7 patients are curren...

Expenditure on social benefits will near €1.2 billion in 2022, with the majority of them going to 95,000 pensioners, Solidarity and Social Justice Minister Michael Falzon said today.Addressing the media, Falzon said that the government continues...

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses said today it will not be bullied by the government's legal action.It is evident that the law Courts are being continuously used against MUMN so that professional health care workers are deprived from improved c...

Health authorities have warned bathers against swimming at Qui Si Sana in Sliema after a sewage overflow into the area.In a statement, the Environmental Health Directorate, within the Superintendence of Public Health, notified that until further noti...

Malta will be sending 135,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Rwanda, the Permanent Secretary for the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on Wednesday.Christopher Cutajar tweeted about the delivery to the African nation, saying that the v...

A few days ago, it was announced that Malta was put back on the European Union’s travel green list after spending most of the summer on the red and orange list after a spike in Covid-19 cases.This return to the green list happened after the num...

The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life has concluded that former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat did not commit a breach of ethics when he travelled to Italy with his family on a holiday funded by a third party in August 2020. At that time Muscat...

A lawyer for the two brothers indicted for the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has demanded the cancellation of all criminal proceedings against them, claiming that the evidence used was obtained illegally.This emerged in an application f...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry has noted the lack of significant improvement on the original white paper on the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use that was published earlier this year. The Chamber said that the...

Malta’s sexual health policy has gone back to the drawing board after it was found to be based on twelve year old research, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Tuesday.Fearne said that the public health department are now undertaking a new stu...