Air Malta said it had received a significant number of cancellations on the London Heathrow route when Malta was only accepting the Covid-19 physical vaccine certificate.Malta was recently placed on the UK green travel list, which came into effect on...

A Filipino man was stabbed to death in Mellieħa this morning, the police said.A woman, also from the Philippines and aged 44, was arrested in connection with the incident.The man, aged 44, who lives in Mellieħa, was found dead with stab wou...

The Chamber of Architects will reactivate its investigations into the house collapse in Ħamrun in which Miriam Pace died last year.Following the reading of Magistrate Mifsud’s sentence regarding the role of Perit Roderick Camilleri and Per...

The gathering of a huge crowd in Hamrun for the belated celebrations of the Premier League victory has sparked indignation on the social media.Hundreds of people gathered in the locality on Thursday evening in an activity which was also given extensi...

More than 42,000 passengers made use of the fast ferry service between Malta and Gozo in their first month of operation, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Ian Borg announced on Friday.In a Facebook post, Transport Minister Borg gave an update on ...

A non-profit sea rescue group on Thursday slammed Libya's coast guard after it witnessed the Libyan maritime authorities in what it described as chasing a crowded migrant boat and shooting in its direction in an apparent effort to stop it from crossi...

Yesterday was for many of us the new Freedom Day – it brought freedom from those dreaded facemasks we have been wearing for months, and which have become more of a nuisance in the ongoing heatwave. Although conditions apply, and masks still nee...

What are the new laws being added on for online shopping from non-EU countries as of 1 July?The European Commission has amended EU Directive 2006/112/EC, such amendments came into force yesterday and shall affect the Customs and VAT rules applicable ...

The latest alarming coronavirus variant is exploiting low global vaccination rates and a rush to ease pandemic restrictions, adding new urgency to the drive to get more shots in arms and slow its supercharged spread.The vaccines most used in Western ...

As from today, 1 July 2021, Malta will be accepting the digital app version of the UK NHS vaccine certificate, as well as the paper version of the certificate, a government statement read."This update came following the creation of a verifier app, cr...

Alexandra Mamo has become Malta's first female deputy police commissioner.Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri and Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa on Thursday announced that two new deputy police commissioners were appointed. The second is Ramon Mer...

A court has declared two architects guilty of causing the death of Miriam Pace, who died in the rubble of her home, which collapsed following works on a construction site next door, saying they had “betrayed their oath of appointment as archite...

The news that the two architects found guilty for the death of Miriam Pace manage to come out the courts with 400 and 480 hours of community service respectively and a fine each, and avoid jail-time, has been met with reactions of anger and increduli...

77% of businesses that responded to a survey have trouble finding workers at a variety of levels, a report published by the Malta Chamber in collaboration with Vistage Malta revealsThe report, which dealt with CEO confidence levels, represents a comp...

Neil Agius has posted his first message to supporters and following, the day after completing his world record-breaking swim between the island of Linosa and Malta.Agius completed the mammoth 125.6km swim on Wednesday evening when he waded into Xlend...

People who are vaccinated, as from yesterday, started to walk the streets without wearing a face-mask – provided that a vaccination certificate has been issued and in groups limited to just two persons, with the second person also fully vaccina...

Four new Covid-19 cases were reported by health authorities on Thursday, while three people have recovered from the virus.With no new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, the number of active cases currently stands at 46.2,528 swab tests were carrie...

The Labour government just ignored everybody when deciding how to spend the €320 million funding received from the European Union as part of the Europe’s recovery plan, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said in a parliamentary debate about t...

Lawyer and PN MP Jason Azzopardi has asked a court to admit Vince Muscat, Alfred Degiorgio and George Degiorgio as parties in a libel case filed against him by minister Carmelo Abela over his claims that Abela was the inside man in a 2010 hold up at ...

After talks with the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage (SCH), the Public Works Department was advised to close a WW2 shelter uncovered in Sliema with new concrete slabs as the old ones were in a very bad condition, a spokesperson for the Infrastru...

A quick-thinking police constable saved a kitten’s life after it fell into a pool in a vacant residence in Mellieha on Wednesday.Sharing the story, the Malta Police Force praised PC Clayton Scicluna for his actions.They said that the Mellieha C...

As the nation woke up to the day when masks can be removed in groups of 2 people who are in possession of their vaccine certificate, the Covid-19 certificate generator website crashed due to the influx of people logging in to download their document....

A brawl in Paceville left an 18-year-old Frenchman grievously injured in the early hours of Thursday morning, police said.In a statement, the police said that at around 1:45am on Thursday they were called to Triq id-Dragunara in St. Julian’s ov...

 Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the...

As from Thursday 1 July, all asylum-seekers and third country nationals will be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, the government said.From Thursday, all those who fall under the above category are eligible to receive the vaccine from the Univ...

Two bikers were grievously injured in two separate accidents on Wednesday.The first to be hurt was an American, aged 46 of Mellieha, who lost control of the Lexmoto bike he was riding anf crashed into a Smart car being driven in the opposite directio...

Long distance swimmer and environmental activist can now add the title ‘World Record Holder’ to his repertoire, after he arrived in Xlendi in Gozo on Wednesday night, bringing to an end a mammoth non-stop 125.6-kilometre journey.Agius set...

Another scholastic year has come to an end.Thousands of children can now look forward to a summer of fun, playing and staying up longer than usual until they return to their classes in September. They will be almost three long months of a break which...

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has reiterated he is willing to drop a libel suit he had filed against Daphne Caruana Galizia if the slain journalist’s family acknowledges the outcome of the Egrant inquiry.This after Peter Caruana Galizia s...

It’s incredible, Labour MEP Alfred Sant lamented twice in a Facebook post after returning to his residence in Birkirkara, only to find that he had no water supply.He said that he phoned the Water Services Corporation, which knew nothing about h...

Yorgen Fenech’s legal team earned themselves a dressing down from an annoyed judge on Wednesday after failing to subpoena any witnesses for a Constitutional case over Fenech’s repeated bail refusals.Madam Justice Miriam Hayman was less th...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Wednesday that he could “never justify the Panama Papers”, after being asked by journalists whether he would distance himself from former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and the scandals which happened und...

The Government has launched the National Post-Pandemic Strategy which it plans to address “within three years”, Minister for Research, Innovation and the Co-Ordination of the Post Covid-19 Strategy, Owen Bonnici, told The Malta Independen...

As from tomorrow, 1 July, Malta will be recognising and accepting the EU digitial vaccine certificates, but British nationals still need to present a physical copy of their vaccination certificate, for the time being. Speaking during a press con...

A firefighter was grievously injured today after a Civil Protection Department vehicle fell into a valley in Qormi.The accident took place in Wied il-Kbir at around 3:30pm, the police said.The vehicle was being driven by a 22-year-old man from St Pau...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech called on the government to be transparent and publish all the correspondence it had with the Financial Action Task Force.“Since being elected leader of the opposition party, my message has always been that no on...

Malta currently has two cases of the highly-infectious Delta variant of Covid-19, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Wednesday.This means that two out of the 45 active cases which Malta currently has of the virus are infected with the Delta variant...

Five new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Wednesday, while no new recoveries were reported for a second day in a row.No new deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, meaning that the number of active cases of Covid-19 currently stands at 45.2,374 ...

A high degree isolation unit with an investment of more than €1.5 million was inaugurated by Health Minister Chris Fearne together with Parliamentary Secretary for EU funds Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi on Wednesday.During a press conference, Fearne e...

The Nationalist Party has called a General Council between 10 and 17 July. The General Council was due to be held earlier this year but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The PN said the council will include discussions on politics, amendment...

The government is fully committed to continue investing in the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit and the police’s Financial Crime Investigation Department as it seeks to strengthen ways with which it obtains intelligence to fight corruption ...

Neil Agius will be arriving in Xlendi, Gozo between 8 and 9pm today, as he attempts to break a world swimming record.Neil Agius hit the 100 kilometre mark earlier on Wednesday. His team said he was well on his way to breaking the maritime world recor...

Asked about his connection with the Centre Court crowd after his second victory there this week, Novak Djokovic joked: “I seem to be having a really nice connection with the grass.”The five-time champion at the All England Club chuckled a...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Wednesday that the post-Covid economic recovery and resilience plan, will prioritise the environment and the digital transformation.Abela also agreed to the request made by the Opposition for the plan to be discuss...

The government is committed to realising robust economic growth without jeopardising the longevity of Malta’s environment for future generations. The Economic Vision for Malta 2031 encourages activities which protect the environment as a key pi...

The Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey listing of Malta confirms structural weaknesses in Malta’s anti-money laundering framework, “but has no immediate impact on Malta’s ratings or those of its domestic rated banks,&rd...

The government will be aiming to vaccinate 85% of all adults against Covid-19, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne said in Parliament today.A few weeks ago, Malta reached the well awaited herd immunity, at 70%. However, the virus h...

The MFSA has published its Authorisation Process - Service Charter to guide applicants in preparing and submitting applications, aiming to facilitate the authorisation process by engaging with applicants and setting out the authority’s expectat...

Politicians who use propaganda would be ‘shooting themselves in the foot’ if they continue to use such a strategy to try and earn political points, the newly elected chair of the Media Literacy Development Board, Alexander Farrugia, told ...

Medication for In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) processes will now become free of charge as of next year, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister, Chris Fearne, announced in Parliament.IVF is one of several techniques available to help people with...

A judge has dismissed the AG's appeal against a magistrate’s decision not to impose a freezing order over two of Allied Newspaper’s top management officials charged with fraud and money laundering, saying that it was not necessary as none...

3,527,000 guest nights in Malta were spent in accommodation booked via four platforms (Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or Tripadvisor) in 2019, data issued by Eurostat shows.In 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the tourism sector, g...

Several large fires broke out in fields in Nadur valley as the village celebrated the feast of St Peter and St Paul, known traditionally as Mnajra, on Tuesday eveningVideos received by The Malta Independent show villagers looking over the valley as f...

Gozo’s tourism industry experienced a ‘very good’ long weekend, the Gozo Tourism Association’s CEO Joe Muscat told the Malta Independent.Over the past year, tourism was among the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic,...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently approved drafting a document on receiving Communion in the Catholic Church. It will include a section regarding standards for politicians and public figures who support laws&nbs...

A very worrying statistic emerged this week on Eurostat, revealing that Malta had the highest amount of early school leavers in the European Union in 2020.In 2020, the highest shares of early leavers from education and training were recorded in Malta...

A 20-year-old Syrian suffered serious injuries after he fell a storey off scaffolding while carrying out some works, police said on Wednesday.Police said that the accident happened at around 9:10am in Triq Wied Ghollieqa in Kappara.Preliminary invest...

England is unburdened by the weight of agonizing history: Germany has finally been beaten in a tournament again.No need to endure more penalty heartache or disallowed goals this time.Just like in the 1966 World Cup final, England triumphed over ...

A 28-year-old man from Croatia who resides in Rabat, Gozo, was taken before the courts in Gozo today, for threatening, violently resisting and attacking two police officers at 00.15am on Triq Putirjal in Rabat, Gozo, a police statement read.He was al...

A report by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has revealed that Malta experienced a 39% decrease in asylum applications and a 21% increase in pending cases in 2020 when compared to 2019.The statistics emerging from the report show that a tota...

Ukraine had reached the round of 16 at the European Championship with two losses and the worst record of the advancing teams.And now the quarterfinals, too.Ukraine eliminated previously unbeaten Sweden 2-1 on Tuesday with a goal in stoppage time at t...

Britain’s new health secretary said he is confident that England is on track to remove the country's remaining coronavirus restrictions on July 19, stressing that the rapid vaccination rollout is “breaking the link” between soaring ...

Serena Williams bit her upper lip. She held her left hand over her mouth and tried to hold back tears while getting ready to serve.It was the first set of her first-round match Tuesday at Wimbledon, and Williams knew this stay at a tournament where s...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has requested to attend a meeting with the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) in order to hear their views and discuss the way forward following Malta's greylisting by the FATF.The meeting is exp...

A grass fire took root at Ramla Bay in Gozo on Tuesday.The police were informed at around 2pm and CPD officials went on site. No injuries were reported.Some beachgoers tried to assist in putting out the fire.Photos and video by Christine Seychell

Six new cases of Covid-19 were registered on Tuesday, while no new recoveries were recorded.The number of active cases currently stands at 40.No new deaths were registered.In total, 659,488 doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered, 357,171 o...

Food prices in Malta were 12.2% higher than the European Union average in 2020, figures released by Eurostat show.Eurostat issued a release which allows for the comparison of consumer price levels between EU states in different areas. The data covers...

An e-scooter rider was grievously injured early on Tuesday morning after she was hit by a car.The accident took place at the Ferries, Gzira, at 1.45am.The rider, a French woman who resides in Pieta’, was hit by a Volkswagen driven by a 23-year-...

Two men were injured during an argument in St Julian's the police said in a statement.The argument took place at 2.45am on Tuesday, and the police were called to St George's Bay. The police found one man unconscious and another with injuries.Police i...

With the scholastic year coming to an end, and with temperatures rising, more and more people will be flocking to the seaside for a swim and for, hopefully, a breeze.It is that time of the year when many people enter into holiday mode. Many, includin...

36 Civil Protection Department officers have undergone 2 weeks of intensive rope access training at some of the most common rescue locations around the Maltese Islands, the Civil Protection Department said on Facebook."Training was conducted in part ...

When you train on the Sir Bobby Charlton Pitch, it’s hard to escape the burden of past glory.And when Gareth Southgate is your coach, it’s even harder for the England players to escape the anguish that can come from playing Germany at a t...

When Sweden and Ukraine meet in Scotland on Tuesday at the European Championship, Mikael Lustig will feel right at home.The Sweden defender was a frequent visitor — and winner — at Hampden Park in a successful eight seasons at Celtic unti...

PN leader Bernard Grech challenged Prime Minister Robert Abela to “denounce” his predecessor Joseph Muscat, whom he blamed as being the person who led the country onto the FATF’s greylist.Speaking in Parliament on Monday morning abo...

Au revoir France, this summer belongs to Yann Sommer.The Switzerland goalkeeper, who left in the middle of the European Championship’s group stage to be with his wife for the birth of their second daughter, made the biggest save of his life aga...

Spain first gifted Croatia a bizarre own-goal, then threw away a late 3-1 lead. Alvaro Morata made sure it didn't matter in the end.Morata and Mikel Oyarzabal scored in extra time Monday to give Spain a 5-3 win over Croatia and a place in the Europea...

Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery Monday as they worked atop a precarious mound of pulverized concrete, twisted steel and the remnants of dozens of household...

The Public Broadcasting Services did not block any football matches, noting that cuts in transmission of foreign channels which broadcast matches from Euro 2020 are imposed on them by conditions established by UEFA, PBS Executive Chairman Mark Sammut...

Six new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Monday.No new recoveries or deaths were registered in the past 24 hours, meaning that the number of active cases now stands at 34.1,316 swab tests were administered on Sunday, taking th...

Legal reforms to the laws on sexual offences will come into force in the coming weeks, the government said in a statement.Minister for Social Justice, Solidarity, Family and Children's rights, Michael Falzon, along with Minister for Justice, Edward Z...

The NGO Repubblika has called on MPs from both sides to give up their seats in parliament and allow themselves to be replaced by technocrats who would lead a so-called ‘Government of National Solidarity.’Speaking in a press conference out...

Neil Agius launched his attempt at a world record breaking swim for a staggering 130km in 50 to 55 hours on Monday.The swim aims to raise awareness about plastic pollution at sea and is part of the Wave of Change campaign.Neil left from Linosa, a sma...

95% of carers and nurses in elderly care homes are vaccinated, Minister for Senior Citizens and Active Ageing Michael Farrugia said in response to a Parliamentary Question.PN MP Maria Deguara asked the minister to say whether the carers working in go...

Shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Monday, two years minus two weeks from the last time a meaningful match was played at Wimbledon, a voice blared over the loudspeakers: “Good afternoon and welcome to Centre Court.”Then came an announcement welco...

More Covid-19 measures will be relaxed as from today, while no new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Sunday by health authorities.Two people were reported to have recovered, and with no new deaths reported for another day, the number of active cases...

Residential properties belonging to private owners and properties belonging to registered voluntary organisations situated along a number of streets in high traffic volume town centres can benefit from a Planning Authority restoration grant sche...

Malta had the highest percentage of early school leavers in 2020, figures issued by Eurostat show.The share of 'early school leavers’ is a term that refers to early leavers from education and training (aged 18-24).  The indicator shows the...

Labour MEP Alfred Sant has expressed his support for the principles upheld in the Matić report on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health, and stated that an open debate on abort...

The foundations for the first frequency converter station have been laid, a government statement read.Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg and Parliamentary Secretary Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi visited works carried out by Infrastructure Malta for the Grand...

A 72-year-old woman was seriously injured after she was hit by a car in Paola on Monday morning.Police said in a statement that the accident happened at around 8am in Triq San Guzepp in Paola, saying that preliminary investigations showed that a 72-y...

A Canadian man was arrested last Friday in connection with importation, trafficking and aggravated possession of cannabis, the police said Monday.The police said they were informed by the Customs Department that three boxes with 18,000 cigarettes con...

New Malta travel rules effectively 'rule out' holidays for families with children aged 12 to 17, it has emerged, a report in the UK says.Mylondon.news reports that in an email to a concerned traveller seen by My London, Visit Malta, the official...

Australia was battling to contain several COVID-19 clusters around the country on Monday in what some experts have described as the nation’s most dangerous stage of the pandemic since the earliest days.Sydney in the east and Darwin in the north...

A man was grievously injured on Sunday evening in a hold-up in Paola.The police said the incident took place in Antoine de Paule Square at 10pm.The victim, a foreigner aged 46 who resides in St Paul’s Bay, told police that he had been approache...

A small fire broke out in an apartment on Censu Tabone Street, St Julian's, on Monday morning, the police confirmed with The Malta Independent.CPD officials put out the fire and there were no injuries.

It was very heartening to see the results of a survey carried out by the National Council for the Maltese Language and the Department of Maltese within the University of Malta in collaboration with the National Statistics Office last week.The survey ...

Tunisian naval forces recovered two bodies and picked up 178 migrants from the Mediterranean on Sunday after the boats transporting them broke down on the perilous crossing from Libya to Europe, a Tunisian Defense Ministry spokesman said.The spokesma...

A photo of two nurses embracing each other at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic has become a symbol for the difficulties that the health professionals went through to take care of patients who were taken ill because of the virus.The Central Bank ha...

Although the news that Malta has been grey listed by the Financial Advisory Task Force (FATF) is not positive, all stakeholders should come together, share information between them and execute a plan of action so that the country would make it back o...