The Medical Association of Malta expressed its disappointment at the amateurism and lack of foresight of the Ministry for Tourism as the number of Covid-19 cases rise sharply again, with 55 reported on Thursday. Just 10 days ago, MAM said in a statem...

A man died on Thursday evening after he was caught beneath a plough in a field in Qormi, the police said.The accident took place in Bajjada Street at around 8pm.The 46-year-old, who resides in Qormi, was given first assistance by a medical team but w...

Several Marsaskala residents together with Moviment Graffitti have taken the Planning Tribunal’s (EPRT) ruling giving the go-ahead for the construction of a waterpolo pitch, a clubhouse and a restaurant in Marsaskala to court. The development w...

A Syrian teenager was grievously injured when he was hit by a car in Hamrun on Thursday evening, the police said.The 19-year-old was hit by a Peugeot 107 driven by a 19-year-old of Hamrun.The accident took place in Guze Pace Street at 7.30pm.The Syri...

Italy on Thursday agreed to allow the disembarking of 572 rescued migrants following a charity ship's desperate plea that food was running short and tensions rising on the crowded Ocean Viking.Hours earlier, Luisa Albera, search and rescue coordinato...

Pfizer is about to seek U.S. authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the latest worrisome coronavirus mutant.Research from mu...

Over the past few weeks, we have seen several incidents where fires were caused by fireworks, with the result that several green areas, some of them protected, were ravaged. Such incidents highlight three points: the first is that fireworks can be ve...

The majority of people who tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday were not vaccinated, but none of the patients have required admission to hospital, sources have told The Malta Independent. This newsroom is informed that, out of the 55 new cases, 3...

Elon Musk probably tested everything imaginable when creating the Tesla, from the tires to the self-driving, but there is one thing that he did miss during the testing process. That is, whether or not you can play at an online casino while the Tesla ...

55 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Thursday as case numbers continued to shoot upwards.Just six meanwhile have recovered, and with no new deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, it means that the number of active cases currently stands at 159.It...

Malta’s grey listing by the Financial Action Task Force and the efforts required to get out of this predicament require a national consensus and unity, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said on Thursday.He was addressing an event themed ‘Ne...

Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar and Moviment Graffitti strongly condemn the Planning Authority permit granted to the running of a motorway through Marsalforn Valley. Martin Saliba PA CEO, took on the role of Infrastructure Malta promoter i...

Malta’s Coalition on Human Trafficking and Prostitution Reform called on Minister Owen Bonnici to change the police on prostitution adopted by his predecessor Rosianne Cutajar.Bonnici took over the responsibility for the nation’s ref...

A set of numbers written on a piece of a boat which was lying on the seabed proved to be the unlikely source of inspiration for a man seeking a lottery jackpot. In a statement, Maltco said that this source of inspiration resulted in a regular Ma...

The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official so...

The law courts were evacuated on Thursday morning after police received an anonymous bomb threat.In a statement, the Court Services Agency said that the court administration received a phone call from the Valletta police station at around 9:45am stat...

Independent MP Godfrey Farrugia was left in a state of lamentation after an unwelcome visitor chose one of his bird cages as a venue for lunch.That unwelcome visitor was in fact a snake which had made its way into one of Farrugia’s bird cages a...

The barn owl project has entered its third and final phase, as the process for the first owlets to be released into the wild has commenced.This was announced by Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning Aaron Farrugia during an activi...

England has broken through its semifinal ceiling at major soccer tournaments. A title match awaits for the first time in 55 years.Harry Kane converted the rebound after his initial penalty was saved in the 104th minute to give England a come-from-beh...

The Labour Party has launched what it said were 100 ideas with which it would like to take the country forward.The ideas cover several aspects of our everyday life, be it the economy, the environment and good governance, among other topics. While it ...

Today the Planning Authority is to decide the application to widen the road from Victoria, Gozo, to Marsalforn, yet another unjustified destruction of agricultural land in order to make space for more cars, in a stretch that is rarely ever congested,...

European leaders expressed dismay, media rights advocates demanded justice and the Netherlands reeled in shock Wednesday after a veteran Dutch crime reporter was shot in the head in downtown Amsterdam following a TV appearance.Peter R. de Vries, cele...

The Malta Business Registry is working closely with other stakeholders to help Malta to overcome the difficult situation brought about by the FATF grey listing, CEO Joseph Farrugia said.“We are a standalone entity, and we oversee everything whe...

Mayumi Santos Patacsil from the Philippines has been accused of the murder of Marcelino Montalban Saraza, her partner of four years.The 44-year-old woman was arraigned before magistrate Doreen Clarke at 1pm Wednesday afternoon by Inspector Godwin Sce...

The number of Delta variant cases in Malta has risen to 10 in the past couple of days, Superintendent for Public Health Charmaine Gauci said on Wednesday.The increase is significant: just two days ago Health Minister Chris Fearne said that there was ...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech hit back at Prime Minister Robert Abela, saying that he has paid all his taxes, while stating that the latter is not taking Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar’s situation seriously.This morning, the Prime Minister s...

Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar will be treated like every other tax-payer if the tax commissioner finds any shortcomings in terms of her fiscal reports, Prime Minister Robert Abela said today.Cutajar has been under the spotlight after she was found guilt...

The Office of the Prime Minister has spent over €1 million on consultancies related to public relations and communications since 2013. Information to this effect was tabled in Parliament by Prime Minister Robert Abela in reply to a parliamentary...

New Central Bank regulations will mean that cheques for amounts below €20 cannot be issued as from the beginning of next years. A number of changes to procedures on cheques and bank drafts will come into force from 1 January 2022 after a di...

In 2018 and 2019, the asylum process was severely impacted by the high influx of persons seeking protection, overcrowding at reception centres and IT and record keeping weaknesses, the National Audit Office said.The NAO audit traced the efficacy of t...

25 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Wednesday – the highest number of cases in two months.With five recoveries reported and no new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, the number of active cases currently stands at ...

An unvaccinated 19-year old is being treated in Mater Dei hospital for Covid-19, Health Minister Chris Fearne remarked. The Minister remarked that the patient is a student who is learning English in Malta and that he was not vaccinated. He is also no...

A 39-year-old Spanish motorcycle was grievously injured in a traffic accident on Wednesday morning.The accident took place on Regional Road, Santa Venra, at around 8:15am, the police said.The man lost control of his Peugeot Citystar and fell. He was ...

Three teenagers were taken to hospital on Tuesday evening after an accident in Ta’ Qali, the police said.The driver, a 19-year-old man, lost control of a Mazda Demio which crashed into a wall at around 9.15pm.With him in the car were two passen...

Anger is mounting in the UK as travel restrictions imposed by Malta on 12-17 year-olds are forcing people to cancel their holidays to the island, a UK report says.Inews.co.uk reports that an NHS NHS worker and a postman, who were both planning to tak...

“Malta will continue to enhance and promote good governance across every sphere of public life and across its key institutions and decision-making authorities, affirming itself as a trustworthy, transparent, and efficient economic partner in th...

Ecommerce is heating up and so is the race for leadership in this space. Here in Malta, companies constantly strategize to excel in this sector and our economy depends on the type of innovation that bright minds can bring. Research suggests that incr...

The rise of the pandemic has allowed us to rethink many things in our pre-Covid lives. The acceleration of remote working is one concept that has been bubbling for years between employees and major corporations. More than one year after the first wav...

The Union of Professional Educators (UPE) has been left fuming at news that some independent schools are making it mandatory for educators to get vaccinated.In a statement, the UPE said that it was “shocked” to find out of what was being ...

The medicine required for the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis has now arrived in Malta and is ready to be distributed to patients who need it after a €3 million investment, Prime Minister, Robert Abela, and Deputy Prime Minister, Chris Fearne ...

June brought the anticipated reopening of tourism, with Malta International Airport welcoming 190,505 passengers by the end of the month, the MIA said in a statement.This figure marks an improvement over the traffic handled in the previous months, bu...

A biker and a cyclist were grievously injured in separate accidents that took place within minutes of each other on Tuesday evening, the police said.At 8pm, in St Paul’s Road in Naxxar, a biker on a Honda was involved in a collision with a BMW ...

England is shouldering rising expectations. Denmark is powered by resilience and recovery.And emotions will be high at Wembley Stadium before their European Championship semifinal match even kicks off Wednesday when there will be a moment to remember...

A woman is to be charged in connection with the murder that took place in Mellieha last Friday, the police said.The woman, from The Philippines and aged 44, will be charged before Magistrate Doreen Clarke,The murder took place in Triq il-Fortizza las...

The British government plans to give itself powers to turn asylum-seekers back at sea or send them abroad while their applications for protection are processed, a move intended to deter migrants from making perilous journeys across the English Channe...

One of the Netherlands’ best known crime reporters was shot Tuesday evening in a brazen attack in downtown Amsterdam and was fighting for his life in a hospital, the Dutch capital's mayor said.Peter R. de Vries, who is widely lauded for fearles...

Facing a wall of nervous blue-and-white clad Italy fans behind the goal, Jorginho took his trademark hop and skip before calmly stroking in the winning penalty.So much for the pressure of a shootout in the European Championship semifinals.A dash of I...

Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar was found to have been in breach of ethics over a Mdina property transaction involving Yorgen Fenech, who now stands accused of being a mastermind in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.It has been alleged that ...

Malta is a lovely island where you can enjoy beautiful beaches, a decent climate, a lot of clubs, and... casinos. Most tourists that come here would not want to miss the opportunity to enter some of the prestigious casinos that this country offers. H...

The competition between EU states to draw corporations who operate across borders, intensified somewhat in recent years. Now, countries like Malta, Hungary, Cyprus and Andorra all provide highly attractive options to businesses - and the main questio...

Fr. Mark Montebello’s recently released biography of Dom Mintoff has been blasted by his two daughters, who described the biography of the former prime minister as “profoundly unethical and immoral”.Anne McKenna and Yana Mintoff hav...

A study conducted by the University of Malta’s Faculty of Theology has found that there are increased divergences in the importance of religion between youths and other age groups, continuing to confirm how younger demographics are giving less ...

A bus driver is to be called in for disciplining by Malta Public Transport after a customer using a wheelchair complained about what he described as “dismissive and discriminatory action”.The customer expressed his frustration on the soci...

131 out of the 162 suicides - the equivalent of 80% - which were registered in Malta in the last six years were men, information tabled in parliament shows.Data tabled by Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri in answer to a Parliamentary Question ask...

PN MPs Karol Aquilina and Therese Comodini Cachia stated that Prime Minister Robert Abela is not being honest with the people and has no credibility moving forward after his “lack of action” with regards to MP Rosianne Cutajar. &ldqu...

11 new Covid-19 cases were reported by health authorities on Tuesday, with the daily case numbers remaining in double figures for the third day running.No new recoveries were reported, while no deaths related to the virus were recorded in the past 24...

A tax investigation into MP Rosianne Cutajar and her role in brokering an Mdina property for Yorgen Fenech has been ongoing since February, Times of Malta reports.The story first broke in December 2020. The property deal, which was the subject of an ...

The Labour Party has launched what it said were 100 ideas which build on the past but look to the future.The greatest recognition the PL can give to its forefathers it to continue building on their success but carrying out reforms that serve tod...

Prime Minister Robert Abela needs to take action on the “failing” prison system now as no more lives should be lost and more help should be given to inmates to rehabilitate themselves, the PN said in a statement. This comes after a female...

Business investment decisions are affected by corporate tax rates. Countries around the world have realized this, and the world average on corporate taxation in 2020 was between 23.85%, a huge reduction on the average of 40.11% in 1980.There were som...

An area in Xaghra, Gozo, that was set alight by fireworks is not a protected zone, but investigations are ongoing to assess the damage caused, the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) told this newsroom. On Saturday 19 June, 2021, a fire broke o...

The compilation of evidence against brothers Adrian and Robert Agius, known as Tal-Maksar, and their associates Jamie Vella and George Degiorgio continues this morning. Robert Agius and Jamie Vella are charged with supplying the bomb that killed...

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation has called for further investigation into whether Yorgen Fenech’s 17 Black received funds from a network of shell companies used to embezzle funds and pay bribes around the world.It said new evidence sugges...

In Ecommerce, there is an increasingly close range of tools used by both European and U.S. businesses as we see the globalization of the industry accelerate. TRUiC announced new updates to it's set of free AI tools for entrepreneurs, making it the mo...

Luis Enrique thought for a couple of seconds, looked straight back at the questioner, and gave the curtest of replies.“No,” said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than ...

One million swab tests have been taken since the start of the pandemic, Health Minister Chris Fearne said.This means that, on average, every citizen has been tested twice for Covid-19.The first case of the virus was registered in Malta on 7 March 202...

Britain plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday, even as he acknowledged that lifting the restrictions will drive surging coronavirus cases higher.Johnson said leg...

Queen Elizabeth II has awarded the U.K.’s highest civilian award for gallantry to the National Health Service, offering a handwritten message of thanks to the public organization and its workers on its 73rd anniversary.In a message written on W...

There was public outrage last week when a court found two architects responsible for causing the death of Miriam Pace but only sentenced them to community service. In his judgment, Magistrate Joe Mifsud acknowledged that the March 2020 incident had a...

Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them.Fearing that the surging contagion could strain health care services as s...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has handed the equality and reforms portfolio previously held by Rosianne Cutajar to Owen Bonnici, the government announced on Monday afternoon.The move confirms that Cutajar has been shown the door by Abela from Cabinet, ...

Almost half of the new cases of Covid-19 being found in Malta are cases imported from abroad who are not vaccinated, Health Minister Chris Fearne said.The number of active cases in Malta has jumped to 79, having been at 28 cases just over a week ago....

Italian entertainment icon Raffaella Carra' has died, Italian media report.She was 78.The news of her death was given by her long-standing partner Sergio Iapino.Carra' was a singer, dancer, actoress and a TV presenter in a career spanning between the...

12 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Monday for the second day running.One person has recovered from the virus, while no deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours.This means that the number of active case currently stands a...

Parliament’s Standards Committee on Monday morning agreed to publish a report by the Standards Commissioner George Hyzler into Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar over her ties to Yorgen Fenech.The report was sent to Speaker Anglu Farrugia on Friday, st...

The EU digital vaccination certificate is now available for download for Maltese citizens. Those who have already downloaded their Maltese vaccination certificate need to login to the same website again, and re-download their certificate. This time r...

Two schemes to help the arts and entertainment sector were launched on Monday, one of which will see the government double the money received from ticket sales. The scheme will cost €2 million.The Event Support Scheme was launched Monday morning...

The Malta International Airport will see a three-fold increase in the number of desks and people working to reduce overcrowding at the airport, Minister for Tourism and Consumer Protection, Clayton Bartolo, told The Malta Independent. Pictures of ove...

Pet groomers are set to be professionally regulated at law in light of the recent incident involving a healthy family pet which died suddently following a regular grooming session.Speaking in Parliament on Monday, Animal Rghts Minister Anton Refalo s...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has called on Prime Minister Robert Abela to demand Cutajar’s resignation as a Labour MP, and to kick her out of Labour’s parliamentary group if she refuses to do so. In a Facebook post and PN statemen...

The Police have renewed an appeal for information about the whereabouts of Marcel Pisani, who has now been missing for over six months.In a statement, police said that while searches for Pisani have not stopped, they have thus far unfortunately not p...

The expected average duration of working life for 15-year olds in Malta is higher than the EU average, having stood at 36.9 years in Malta in 2020.The expected average duration of working life for 15-year olds in the European Union (EU) was 35.7 year...

72% of people in Malta aged 16-74 participated in social networks in 2020, according to a survey conducted by Eurostat in the first quarter of that year.This places Malta well above the EU average of 57%. Social network participation includes activit...

It seems like the authorities fumbled a bit with the UK vaccine certificate situation.Malta had initially announced that it would not accept a digital certification, only a printed version of it. This then changed after a verifier app was created and...

A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a traffic accident in Naxxar on Monday.The police said there was a collision between a Kawasaki motorcycle driven by a 33-year-old man from Gzira and a Toyota van driven by a 77-year-old man from Mosta.The acci...

€512,870 were raised during Sunday’s TV Marathon in aid of Dar tal-Providenza. Because of certain restrictions still being enforced by Health Authorities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole programme was produced on the same lines...

The government MPs sitting on Parliament’s ethics committee will take the position that the Standard Czar’s report on Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar should be published “immediately,” a government spokesperson has told The Malta I...

PL MP Rosianne Cutajar has hit out against the report by Standards Commissioner George Hyzler, which found her to be in breach of ethics, saying that it was unjust.The breach was over a controversial Mdina property transaction she was involved in tog...

Two architects who were involved in the tragedy of Miriam Pace last year were only given community service and fined by a court, but they could still lose their warrant. The decision now rests with the Chamber of Architects, which has reactivated its...

An inmate at Corradino Correctional Facility died nearly three weeks after she was found unconscious in her cellPrison officials had at the time described it as a suicide attempt. The woman had been hospitalised on 16 June after being given firs...

12 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Sunday, as no more people recovered from the virus.No new deaths were reported.The number of active cases has now risen to 68.682,731 vaccine doses have been administered so far. 362,262 of these were first do...

England may soon abandon legal requirements for wearing masks, a government minister said Sunday as the nation waits for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce plans for easing COVID-19 measures.Johnson is expected in the next few days to upda...

The more time passes, the more it is felt that the environment needs to be protected.But this is because the more time passes, the more it is given the side. Years of neglect are followed by more years of neglect.Successive governments have tried to ...

A survey carried out by statistician Vince Marmara shows that the Labour Party enjoys 55.9% of popular support, with the Nationalist Party trailing on 42.4%.Publishing the results on Facebook, Marmara said that the scientific survey used the Multiple...

As long as PL MP Rosianne Cutajar remains in her position, Malta's reputation will continue to be damaged, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said on Sunday.Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar has been found to be in breach of ethics by the Standards Commissione...

TV presenter and animal rights activist Moira Delia has taken to Facebook over her frustration regarding the lack and state of garbage collection in St Julians.In a video posted on Facebook by Delia, excessive amounts of rubbish can be seen on both s...

Pope Francis was hospitalized in Rome on Sunday afternoon for scheduled surgery on his large intestine, the Vatican said. The news came just three hours after Francis had cheerfully greeted the public in St. Peter’s Square and told them he will...

Max Verstappen is driving in the same dominant way that Lewis Hamilton did for so long.And he is even starting to sound like him.“When you go into the weekend and everyone sees you as a favorite, it’s not easy to deliver,” Verstappe...

Malta has the lowest youth unemployment rate in the EU, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Sunday.Prime Minister Robert Abela referred to Eurostat unemployment statistics. He said that work is the basis for many things. The Eurostat statistic shows ...

An accident on Triq D'Argens, corner with Triq Manoel De Vilhena in Gzira left a motorbike rider grievously injured.The accident occurred at 11.15am between a motorbike and a car.The motorbike rider, a 66-year-old man from Sliema suffered grievous in...