A new block of apartments is being proposed within Ġgantija’s archaeological buffer zone, in an area characterised by low-lying housing developments. The application, which is being proposed by Carmel Attard and architect Alexande...

COVID-19 may have restricted club basketball in Malta this year, but a FIBA decision on May 12 to go ahead with this summer’s European Small Countries Championship has brought back the excitement of watching our national team play ...

Universities have turned communication, probably one of the oldest human skills, from an art into a science. Students in business and politics courses are trained to hone their communication skills with their clients, colleagues, the...

Landowners offered an expropriation deal by Infrastructure Malta should be wary of what they sign because the agreement they sign is legally “worthless”, activist group Moviment Graffitti has warned.  The activist group emphasis...

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The annual general meeting of Malta Properties Company plc (MPC) last Thursday, July 15, highlighted the company’s positive performance during 2020. Despite the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, MPC saw revenues grow mar...

American teen tennis star Coco Gauff will miss the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19, she announced on Sunday. Gauff, coming off a run to the fourth round at Wimbledon, tweeted her sadness at missing out on “a drea...

Aston Martin has lifted the covers off its striking new hybrid supercar – the Valhalla.  Built with a variety of learnings made through Aston Martin’s involvement in Formula One, the Valhalla incorporates several intricate and t...

The cardboard beds at the Tokyo Olympic Village are “sturdy”, organisers reassured on Monday, after a report warned they weren’t strong enough for sex. Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan filmed himself jumping repeatedly on a bed t...

A banking union has said a decision by APS Bank to require unvaccinated employees to take a weekly PCR test is in breach of a collective agreement. The Malta Union of Bank Employees said that APS had imposed the measure unilaterally...

Four paintings by renowned artist Emvin Cremona have been loaned by the Central Bank of Malta to be put on show at Il-Ħaġar Museum exhibition in Victoria. Around 90 works – including some from the late artist’s family – are o...

The distribution of funds on a cross-border basis within the European Union is the next important topic of the year for EU fund managers. The relatively new CBDF framework, which will come into force on August 2, will impact alternat...

Australia's two largest cities are set to stay under tight COVID-19 restrictions as Melbourne on Monday extended a five-day snap lockdown designed to curb a virulent outbreak. "These restrictions simply cannot end at midnight tomorro...

It is often argued that you can judge a society by the way it treats its vulnerable or dependent members. These routinely include the poorest and most disadvantaged, the oldest, those with serious ill-health or disability, addicts an...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Monday. Times of Malta reports that residents living close to two currently disused fireworks factories near Għargħur are putting up a legal fight to stop a licence renewal tha...

Malta is once again on the EU’s red travel list as the number of COVID-19 cases continued to spike in recent weeks. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) issues a weekly map classifying each country based on...

It’s 9am on a humid and scorching July morning. Salvu fires up the espresso machine at his temporary residence, a pretty guesthouse by the sea. He is still tired from the jet lag but eager to go out and rekindle his fire for Gozo; ...

The British government on Monday lifted pandemic restrictions on daily life in England, scrapping all social distancing in a step slammed by scientists and opposition parties as a dangerous leap into the unknown. From midnight (2300 ...

The Okee Ortolan Delta from Benghazi to Misurata, the Atlantic North from Ambarli to Misurata, the Aknoul from Skikda to Beirut (all CMA CGM Malta Agency Ltd), the MV Eurocargo Palermo from Catania to Catania, the MV Eurocargo Venezi...

Malta and its government seem to enjoy playing with yoyos. Each time we get our COVID-19 cases down to zero and our vaccination rates to among the best in the world, we fall into the trap of thinking we have beaten the virus. Off we ...