Ħondoq ir-Rummien remains one of Gozo’s most picturesque bays, with tourists, Maltese and Gozitans alike all flocking to the quiet beauty spot on the outskirts of the village of Qala throughout summer.The bay, however, remains under the th...

Marsaskala residents have been left fearing a proposed regeneration of their locality, with a saga involving a so-called Regeneration Committee set up by the local council initially as a transport and infrastructure sub-committee and made up by busin...

Gozo is eager and yearning for an active summer season for tourism but does not expect tourist intake to match that from before the pandemic, Gozo Tourism Authority (GTA) President Joe Muscat told The Malta Independent on Sunday. Sources told this ne...

We want our privacy, but then post all that we do on social media for everyone to see.We are living this contradiction these days. At least, many of us are.This is because while, on the one hand, we get angry when our mobile phone number is given to ...

Throngs of students are expected to return to summer schools across Malta in the next few weeks, indicating that parents are less fearful of Covid-19 affecting their children, a number of summer schools have told The Malta Independent on Sunday.With ...

As Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta cradled the European Cup before thrusting it into the air to the backdrop of fireworks, Pep Guardiola and his distraught Manchester City players stood way behind the winner’s rostrum and looked on in anguish...

Gavin MacLeod, the veteran supporting actor who achieved fame as sardonic TV news writer Murray Slaughter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and stardom playing cheerful Capt. Stubing on “The Love Boat,” has died. He was 90.MacLeo...

Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday.Nguyen Thanh Long said scientists examined the genetic makeup of the virus that had infe...

The Coronavirus reproduction rate in Malta has decreased further to 0.25, statistician Vincent Marmara said. In his weekly blog for The Malta Independent on Sunday, Marmara said that the rate of vaccines being administered is a very positive one whic...

Johanna Grech was born on Workers’ Day, 1 May 1967. She is the daughter of the late Pius Grech and Helen née Alden.From a young age she showed straight away signs of sport orientation. “Looking back at my childhood days these were ...

Adrian Hillman, the former Allied Newspapers managing director, was charged in court this morning with money laundering, fraud and other financial crimes.He was granted bail after a sitting which lasted more than three hours.Hillman arrived back in M...

Valletta: Chemimart City Gate Pharmacy, City Gate; Ħamrun: Chemimart International Pharmacy, 650, St Joseph High Road; Qormi: Pinto Pharmacy, 43, St Sebastian Street; Birkirkara (Ta' Paris): Mackie's Pharmacy, L. Casolani Street; Gżira: D'A...

When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of 3,500, the annua...

Three new cases of CVovid-19 were recorded in Malta on Saturday, with two patients recovering.Health authorities said that no deaths were registered, leaving the total number of victims at 419.The number of swab tests carried out was 2,010, for a tot...

Hundreds of people turned up at the PN headquarters on Saturday as the Nationalist party seeks to address the “unjust way” in which water and electricity bills are being formulated.The Nationalist Party on Thursday called on the public to...

A man was grievously injured when his hand was trapped in a lift this morning, the police said.The accident happened in Pietru Pawl Saydon Street, Zurrieq, at noon.The man, a 50-year-old from St Julian’s, was taken to hospital with grievous inj...

An interactive, informative centre in Buskett will act as a reference point on falconry in our islands and host a rehabilitation and reintroduction programme for birds of prey.Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning Aaron Farrugia e...

The Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association (MEIA) hopes that from July, the country will see the “safe and gradual” resumption of events, but not at full capacity, President of the association Howard Keith Debono told The Malta...

The number of new coronavirus infections in the U.K. hit a near two-month high Friday as British regulators authorized the use of the single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.The latest authorization, which takes the number of vaccines in the U...

A man from Rabat is expected to be arraigned in court as he is held suspect by the Police after Customs seized 98,600 smuggled cigarettes and over two kilos of tabacco on which €21,050 were evaded in duty and other taxes.Searches were done by Cu...

This truly does feel like the umpteenth editorial that we are writing about the government’s apparent spite against trees.Yet once again, here we are, with yet another situation of mature trees suddenly getting the chop.  This time, it was...

A Libyan man today was charged in the Gozo courts with threatening another person and breaching bail conditions.The police said the 29-year-old resident of Victoria was charged with threatening another person in Zebbug, Gozo, on 28 May at around 10.3...

Looming over Liberdade Square, the giant European Cup replica that supporters of Chelsea and Manchester City crane their necks to photograph is a reminder of the prize being sought in Saturday's Champions League final.And the footballing heritage the...

The Eco-School committee presented an action plan on the Auberge de Castille to Prime Minister Robert Abela after an environmental audit was carried out by students of St Ignatius of Ħandaq College.The committee began its work in January 2021 by...

As fear of repression rises among Belarusians following the arrest of a dissident journalist whose plane was forcibly diverted to Minsk, those who want to leave the country are feeling increasingly cornered.Its land borders already were under tight r...

A man was injured on Friday evening after the bike he was riding crashed into a tree.The accident took place in Triq ix-Xatt in Pieta at 7pm.The biker, a Hungarian man aged 31 who resides in San Gwann, lost control of the Benelli he was riding and cr...

Securing Libya's southern borders is a priority for the country's transitional government as it aims to stem the flow of illegal migrants setting off from its shores, Libya’s interim foreign minister said Friday.Najla al-Manqoush made the state...

The United States and Britain are stepping up calls for the World Health Organization to take a deeper look into the possible origins of COVID-19, including a new visit to China where the first human infections were detected.WHO and Chinese experts i...

A copy of a biography about former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff has been presented to the current incumbent Robert Abela.“It is not a coincidence that Manwel Dimech’s foremost biographer is also Dom Mintoff’s, for the ideological and ...

Former Allied Group managing director Adrian Hillman is set to be charged with financial crimes this morning.Hillman was extradited to Malta on Friday.He is expected to be charged with money laundering, fraud and other crimes in front of magistrate D...

The health authorities will send out Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination appointment invites to youths aged 12-15 after the school exam period, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne said on social media on Friday.The vaccine was the first one granted authorizat...

Six new cases of Covid-19 were found as five people recovered from the virus on Friday.It means that Malta currently has 66 active cases of the virus.Addressing her weekly briefing, health chief Charmaine Gauci said 2,288 swab tests were carried out ...

Aleksandar Stojanovic was supplied with a shotgun, a getaway car and promised €5,000 to murder Walid Salah Abdel Moteleb Mohamed, a court in Gozo heard.Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech presided over the compilation of evidence against Stojanov...

Following strong booking demand coming from the German market, this summer Air Malta will be adding twice weekly direct services to Berlin and Dusseldorf, it said in a statement.Air Malta will start operating to Berlin on the 28th June every Monday a...

The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) has come upmin defence of the chopping down of trees in Attard, saying it was all part of the Central Link Project.In a statement on Friday, ERA said it received an application for a variation to the exis...

Movement Graffitti has claimed that the ERA has rewarded Fortina after it "illegally" started works on their catamaran pontoon in Balluta Bay last Saturday.The NGO said that the oermit conditions were being "secretly changed", allowing Fortina to car...

The Government’s Consolidated Fund reported a deficit of €614 million in the first quarter of this year, while GDP decreased by 0.5%, according to data published on Friday by the National Statistics Office.Between January and April 2021, R...

The European Union must strengthen its focus on SMEs, micro-enterprises and economic sectors such as tourism and aviation if it is to propoerly address the impact of COVID-19, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Miriam Dalli t...

Former Allied Newspapers managing director Adrian Hillman has been extradited to Malta.Hillman is wanted in Malta on charges of money laundering and graft, related to the purchase of a printing press in a deal involving former OPM chief of staff Keit...

Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg and Minister for Tourism and Consumer Protection Clayton Bartolo have announced a regeneration project to embellish the Għadira Bay promenade and create a 1.2 kilometre pedestr...

Eight organisations and several Pembroke residents have joined forces and filed an appeal with the Planning Tribunal against the Environment and Resources Authority's (ERA) approval of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) for the DB Group's projec...

The resilient gaming industry did not feel the impact other sectors experienced, and seems to have weathered the storm, Carl Brincat, the new Chief Executive Officer of the Malta Gaming Authority, told The Malta Business Weekly.This, he said, was par...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday rejected claims by his former chief aide that he botched Britain's coronavirus response and is unfit for office, denying an allegation his government oversaw tens of thousands of needless deaths.Health Secreta...

PwC Malta has taken over as the competent person for Pilatus Bank, the MFSA said."As communicated by Public Notice 30-2018 on 22 March 2018, the Authority appointed a competent person in terms of Article 29(1)(c) and (d) of the Banking Act (Chapter 3...

A man was taken to hospital after suffering injuries while working with a grinder, the police said.The accident took place at 9.15pm on Thursday in a boathouse in Armier, limits of Mellieha.The 65-year-old, who is resident in Marsa, was taken to hosp...

In line with tradition, Malta’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest has led to controversy a few days after the country, despite the expectations of many, failed clinch the microphone-shaped glass trophy. But this time the issue is not...

Moneyval is not the end of the road, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said, highlighting that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) still has to take its decision about Malta.The Finance Minister addressed a press conference on the same day that the C...

Four new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Thursday, as Malta’s vaccine drive continues to progress.Eight people were declared as recovered from the virus, while no new deaths were reported.The number of active cases currently stands at 65.2,3...

Db Group’s City Centre project overlooking St George’s Bay has been recommended for approval by the Planning Authority’s Case Officer.The PA board will decide on the application on Thursday 10 June.The Environment and Resources Auth...

A judge has given the heirs of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia three weeks to present her tax returns after upholding a request by lawyer Peter Caruana Galizia that the acts of the €5 million case for damages her family filed against ...

The Council of Europe has confirmed that Malta has passed the Moneyval assessment, with the country no longer having any “non-compliant” or “partially compliant” ratings.In a statement, the Council of Europe said that Malta ha...

Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg has defended expropriation practices employed when new roads are being constructed, or existing ones are being widened.It has been reported that Infrastructure Malta would, on occasion, start works on private land pri...

The trial in connection with the failed 2010 HSBC headquarters height has been put on hold indefinitely on the grounds that the court still has to hear new “witness or witnesses” testify.Judge Giovanni Grixti made the declaration on Thurs...

Residents of Attard gathered in Triq in-Nutar Zarb to stop Infrastructure Malta from continuing to chop down two large trees on the street, citing the consistent chopping of trees without listening to the residents’ pleas as “dictatorial&...

The Nationalist Party has called on the public to register their utility bills with them as the party seeks to address “the unjust way” in which water and electricity bills are being formulated.In a press conference, PN MPs David Agius an...

Toward the end of HBO Max's “Friends” reunion special, host James Corden asks the six actors to imagine what their characters' lives would be like today.Chandler and Monica would be married. So would Ross and Rachel. With kids, of course....

Haley Bugeja won a prestigous honour on Thursday after being voted as the Best Young Player in Italy’s top tier of women’s football.Bugeja, who is 17 years old, had a breakthrough season at U.S. Sassuolo after signing with the club from M...

Destiny Chukunyere’s manager, Howard Keith Debono, has questioned the motivation behind the “drama’ surrounding Malta’s exorbitant spend on the Eurovision song contest.An investigation has been launched after claims that taxpa...

NGO Moviment Graffitti have objected to a “massive” proposed development in Xewkija, expressing concern over its proximity to a scheduled windmill and over a lack of transport accessibility to the site.The development – which consis...

European Union search and rescue (SAR) authorities have worked to ‘pull back’ migrants away from Maltese shores, a recent study from the United Nations has found.The study, titled ‘“Lethal Disregard”: Search and rescue a...

The National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE) is striving for the attainment of equal treatment, after Covid-19 posed an assertion to human rights and equality, the Commission said during its Online Annual Conference.The conference, wh...

The Marsa junction park-and-ride is open to commuters, Transport Minister Ian Borg said on Thursday, highlighting that he would like more people to use it.Borg paid a visit to the Marsa junction, where he explained that 30 bus voyages per hour in eac...

A project being undertaken within the Faculty for Medicine and Surgery at the University of Malta has the ultimate goal of optimizing methodologies for the early identification of metastatic disease, or cancer that can spread from one body part to an...

A Punic tomb dating back over two thousand years was discovered during works carried out by the Water Services Corporation in the south of Malta near Żabbar.The tomb, which was still sealed, was opened, revealing a number of urns containing the ...

Two relatives who have been playing the Super 5 lottery for over 30 years won a total of €225,000 from the Super 5 draw which was held on 12 May, Maltco said. Since the first ever draw of Super 5 which was held on 24 January 1990, two close rela...

Four new magistrates have been appointed by the President of Malta to the bench after 28 expressions of interest in the posts were received. In a statement, the President’s office said that after a recommendation from the Judicial Appointm...

Famous ballet dancer Carla Fracci has died, aged 84, Italian media report.Fracci was one of the most well-known ballet dancers, linked mostly to the Scala di Milano Theatre.She will be remembered for her interpretations of the most important roles in...

The European Union took on vaccine producer AstraZeneca in a Brussels court on Wednesday and accused the drugmaker of acting in bad faith by providing shots to other nations when it had promised them for fast delivery to the EU's 27 member countries....

Transport Malta said today that one of its officials last Saturday was assaulted in Mriehel.The incident happened in Triq l-Imdina, Mrieħel, where an agency official “was assaulted by employees of a contractor carrying out roadworks”...

As long as the Maltese have their pastizzi, get a few vouchers from the government every now and then and can watch the Eurovision Song Contest, then they are able to close their eyes to all the bad things that happen in this country.This is, general...

Belgium on Wednesday suspended the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for people under age 41 following the death of a person who had received the shot.The government said in a statement it was asking for urgent advice from the Europea...

A restoration project at Chadwick Lakes is bearing fruit and the number of visitors to the site has been increasing significantly on an ongoing basis, according to a statement issued by the Energy and Water Agency and by Nature Trust Malta-FEE, The a...

President of Malta George Vella has spoken about the sense of pride that the people of Malta and Gozo should have for places of invaluable historical, strategic, and cultural nature such as the St Agatha Tower, also known as the Red Tower.During a vi...

Paul Apap Bologna remained silent when asked about Kittiwake Limited, a company which was allegedly set up to funnel money in the United Arab Emirates.Kittiwake Limited is one of the companies that was allegedly involved in money-laundering. Times of...

A public survey into whether Valletta's Royal Opera House should be roofed is expected to yield results in a few weeks' time, Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government told The Malta Independent.Back in 2019, ex-Finance Minist...

 The penalty shootout was going badly for Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea in the Europa League final, beaten by every Villarreal player who stepped up to the spot.At 11-10, it got dramatically worse.The shootout — after a 1-1 dra...

Seven new Covid-19 cases were registered today, while six patients have recovered, health authorities said.The number of active cases is now 69.There was also one death reported, a 60-year-old man, who takes the total number of victoms to 419.In all,...

The Ministry for Finance and Employment said that yesterday, Malta received from the European Commission the nominal amount of €177 million in financial support in the form of loans given on favourable terms under the SURE Instrument. These loan...

The EU has a long-standing commitment to gender equality. But too little has been done to mainstream gender: in other words, to systematically and actively promote gender equality in policy-making and in spending the EU budget. Necessary prerequisite...

Opposition leader Bernard Grech today pledged that a Nationalist party in government would give back €50 million to consumers after reports have shed light on the fact that they could have paid “extra charges” on their electricity an...

An investigation has been launched after concerns were raised about the possibility of taxpayer money being spent to boost Destiny’s Eurovision odds with bookmakers. Minister Carmelo Abela ordered an audit of expenditure after he received repo...

Countries reliant on tourism are racing to reopen borders and revive economies decimated by the pandemic.The World Travel & Tourism Council estimates that the sector lost nearly $4.5 trillion and 62 million jobs last year. Airlines alone lost $12...

Inter Milan coach Antonio Conte left the newly-crowned Serie A champion by “mutual consent” Wednesday, just weeks after leading the Nerazzurri to their first league title in more than a decade.Conte was reportedly unhappy about the club&r...

Healthcare workers employed with Steward Health Care have called on the government to honour its promise and transfer them to the public healthcare system.All employees who on 1 January of this year should have been transferred from Steward Health Ca...

A man was arrested by the police in connection with an investigation into trafficking of weapons.The man, aged 41 of Birzebbuga, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon after the police were tipped off.Officials from the Major Crimes Unit and Rapid Interve...

Former Olympic swimmer Neil Agius announced that he will be attempting to swim from Tunisia to Sicily, covering a 150km open water world record distance in under 60 hours.Agius will swim an additional 50km when compared to his 2020 Sicily to Malta sw...

Works on a state-of-the-art aquatic sports facility in the north of the island are at an advanced stage and will be completed in time for the summer season. This was announced by Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning Aaron Fa...

Representatives from the European Commission and OLAF today applauded Malta’s EU funds management, Labour MEP Cyrus Engerer said. “They confirmed that their experience working with Maltese authorities in this regard has been a positi...

UEFA has opened disciplinary cases against Super League rebels Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus that could lead to bans from the Champions League.Proceedings are now active for “a potential violation of UEFA’s legal framework," UEFA sa...

The family of the late Miriam Pace, who died tragically in a construction incident in March 2020 in Santa Venera, have signed a settlement agreement with the developers of the project MCZMC Developers Limited.54-year-old Pace was tragically killed on...

The residents of Ħal-Farruġ and eleven NGOs reiterate their objection to the demolition of an existing farm on ODZ to be replaced by a warehouse complex. Over 600 objections, including by the Saint Sebastian’s firework factory and the...

Over the past few weeks the situation with regard to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malta has improved tremendously.In March, we reached a peak of having more than 500 cases registered in one single day, the number of people in hospital was h...

Pardoned middleman Melvin Theuma had been told that an individual involved in freemasonry had to pay Vince Muscat €100,000 for Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder.Theuma was testifying on Tuesday in the compilation of evidence against alleged ...

The Maltese government is ready to ship the 1.2 billion dinars currently held in Malta to be used for "the good and wellbeing of the Libyan people who have endured so much suffering over the years," Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo  has ...

Three new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Tuesday, as an elderly woman passed away.Authorities said that a 77-year-old woman had passed away at Mater Dei Hospital in the last 24 hours.Five people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning th...

A Marsaxlokk restaurant has denied ever installing or finding secret cameras in its restrooms.It comes after it emerged in court on Monday that police had found over 14,000 photos of women in the possession of Albert Buttigieg – the restaurant&...

Former Inter and Italy defender Tarcisio Burgnich has dies, aged 82, Italian media report.Considered as one of the best ever defenders produced by Italy, Burgnich started his career with Juventus before moving on to Inter, where he formed part of the...

Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech slammed the prosecution for presenting boxes of paperwork in the money laundering case against Nexia BT.The magistrate refused to accept three large boxes of documentary evidence, telling prosecution that they shoul...

Over 35,000 non-Maltese people have been vaccinated in Malta and contributed to Malta's successful vaccine rollout, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne confirmed on Tuesday.Fearne shared the statistic while responding to a parl...

Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government José Herrera today launched a new scheme to financially aid feast associations, in order to make the sector more resilient during challenging times.Up to €150,000 will be g...