A man and a woman were arrested by the police within 24 hours of allegedly committing a robbery in Gzira.The police said that a 56-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man held up a third person, a 43-year-old man, at the Council of Europe Garden in Gzir...

A Briton was seriously injured in a fight in Sliema on Friday morning, the police said.The incident took place in the Tigne area at around 5am.The Briton, aged 21, was involved in a fight with another man who escaped from the scene.The Briton suffere...

Speaker of the House Anglu Farrugia has cancelled a symposium celebrating 100 years from the setting up of the Maltese Parliament, after noting that four former speakers turned down the invitation to attend.In a letter, Alfred Bonnici, Lawrence Gonzi...

Repubblika organised a small protest in Birkirkara on Friday, using two vehicles with loudspeakers to convey a message."We have a justice minister who is servile to criminal millionaires," Repubblika President Robert Aquilina said.During the press co...

CNN has fired three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.CNN chief Jeff Zucker told staff members of the firing in a memo sent Thursday that reminded them that vaccines were mandatory if they...

A French constitutional court on Thursday validated most aspects of a new law that, starting next week, requires people to carry a special COVID-19 health pass to access cafes, restaurants, long-distance travel and, in some cases, hospitals. But it s...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives has chosen to turn down a request from the Opposition to hold an urgent debate on a motion of no confidence in the Justice Minister, Edward Zammit Lewis, which was filed by the Opposition last Monday.Anglu ...

British police said Thursday they have made 11 arrests in connection with the online racial abuse of England soccer players following their team's loss to Italy in the final of the European Championship last month.Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bu...

The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:___Greece has won its first men’s water polo medal at the Olympics. The only question now is silver...

Restrictions surrounding the mandatory quarantine period in the case of a fully vaccinated person being a close contact of a Covid-19 case have been relaxed, while the government has announced plans for a booster vaccine shot to be given out to selec...

A last-minute legal challenge with Sicilian authorities by another competing operator, which objected to Ponte’s use of the Augusta Port, has forced the ferry operator to delay the start of its Sicily service. Ponte Ferries said in a state...

Virtu Ferries said that it has made no legal challenge against its' rival's application to use a berthing area in Sicily.In a statement, Virtu Ferries said: "A section of the media and social media have associated Ponte Ferries' excuse, for not comme...

95% of Malta's Covid-19 cases are of the Delta variant, with the remaining 5% being of the Gamma variant, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Thursday.Addressing a press conference where he gave details about the Covid-19 situation in Malta, Fearne ...

Former Police Sergeant Simon Schembri has been given financial compensation by the government.In a statement, the Home Affairs Ministry said that on 15 May 2018, Schembri was involved in an incident while on duty, that left him with serious physical ...

Marsascala went some 15 hours without electricity supply between Wednesday and Thursday, leaving residents reeling from the effects of the current heatwave.Many residents of the seaside town took to social media to vent their frustrations, particular...

Premier League champion Manchester City broke the British transfer fee record on Thursday to sign midfielder Jack Grealish from Aston Villa.City paid a fee of 100 million pounds ($139 million), Villa chief executive Christian Purslow confirmed. That'...

Barcelona said Thursday that Lionel Messi will not stay with the club after Spanish league financial regulations made it impossible for a deal to be reached between the club and the player.Barcelona said in a statement that a deal for a new contract ...

Motorcycling great Valentino Rossi is retiring at the end of the season.The nine-time MotoGP world champion announced his decision Thursday at the Styrian GP — at the venue where Rossi took his first grand prix podium in the 125cc class in 1996...

The Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association (MEIA) have lamented on how their industry remains “the only one suffering from sustained discrimination”, seeing as Malta’s health authorities still haven’t permitted the ...

78 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Thursday, as an elderly woman became the 424th person to die in Malta while positive for the virus.204 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active c...

A significant €2.3 million decrease in surplus was registered by the Archdiocese of Malta in comparison to that of 2019 which has been attributed to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.€1.2 million surplus was documented in 2020 whereas &eu...

In an attempt to enable all government schools in Malta to achieve the same teaching standards, 23 teachers from the Govanni Curmi Higher Secondary School (GCHSS) will be transferred to other schools wherein teachers have been struggling to keep up w...

Proposals to protect farmers and the land they farm are being worked on by the Nationalist Party, the PN said in a statement.PN spokespersons Peter Agius and PN candidate Clifford Zahra Fenech have expressed their concerns over the future of around 4...

The government should compensate consumers who suffered frequent power cuts as a result of the government’s irresponsibility, Nationalist Party spokesman Ryan Callus said.Addressing the media, Callus said that the Labour government had won the ...

Moviment Graffitti along with the Maltese Association of Social Workers and aditus foundation today held a symbolic activity in front of the Law Courts to reiterate its position regarding the “inhumane and unjust judgement” whereby two mi...

Energy Minister Miriam Dalli said today that it is “unacceptable” that in this day and age Malta is experiencing power cuts with such frequency, and that she has demanded an explanation about the situation from Enemalta. “The issue ...

In what will be determined as a blow for event organisers, standing events will continue to be barred throughout the month of August, although the capacity for seated events is set to increase from later this month.Addressing a press conference, Heal...

Four former Speakers of the House of Representatives have turned down an invitation by the current Speaker Anglu Farrugia to take part in a symposium he will be organising next week.Farrugia will be holding a symposium on the 100th anniversary of the...

The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:MEDAL ALERTSpanish teenager Alberto Gines Lopez has won the first Olympic gold medal in sport climbing, r...

The man who coined the term 'Blockchain island' for Malta back in 2016 has said that the term has become a 'moniker of the most nefarious significance.'Steve Tendon, in an email to members of the Blockchain Island Club (BIC), which he had founded bac...

Malta Enterprise CEO Kurt Farrugia together with Energy and Enterprise Minister Miriam Dalli announced that the MicroInvest scheme has been extended to “provide a further support structure for businesses during the pandemic.” Since t...

The President and the Prime Minister have held separate meetings with the family of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The meetings were held a week after the publication of the report compiled by three judges entrusted with a public inquiry ...

Total inbound visitors for June 2021 were estimated at 70,300, while total nights spent amounted to 639,768, the NSO said.During the month under review, a total of 59,639 inbound tourists visited Malta for holiday purposes, followed by 6,606 tourists...

Close relationships which could lead to favouritism between businessmen and politicians are “not okay”, Chamber of Commerce President Marisa Xuereb told The Malta Independent when asked about the business-related findings from the Daphne ...

The Naxxar local council recently proposed the enactment of a by-law to tackle the rising number of caravans along the coast road, however this has fallen through due to the government stalling on the issue, Naxxar mayor Anne Marie Muscat Fenech Adam...

How has Brexit impacted importation and logistics sector? Franco Azzopardi, CEO of Express Trailers explains the repercussions and the new challenges that Brexit brought about in an interview with Dayna Camilleri Clarke.What are the new importation s...

Italy stepped up pressure Wednesday on fellow EU nations to open their ports to migrants rescued by humanitarian ships as political tension simmers in the Italian government's coalition over a sharply rising number of arrivals this summer on the coun...

We have known it for quite a while that most politicians think of the rest of the population as being in their grasp and can be easily manipulated.They smile, pose, shake hands and mingle with others simply because they need the people’s vote t...

An 84-year-old man was grievously injured when the car he was driving crashed into a wall, the police said.The man, from Ghaxaq, was driving his Peugeot Partner along tal-Barrani Road at 3.30am when the accident happened.He was taken to Mater Dei Hos...

The U.K. plans to offer coronavirus vaccines to 16 and 17-year-olds in the next few weeks after the independent body of scientists that makes vaccine recommendations to the government changed its advice.The four nations of the U.K. all accepted the c...

Australia’s most populous state is reporting the worst day of its outbreak of the coronavirus delta variant, with a record 262 new local infections and five deaths from COVID-19.New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Thursday tha...

82 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Wednesday, while 293 people recovered, the health authorities said.This brings the active cases down to 1,333. No new deaths were registered.Since the start of the pandemic, 34,590 cases of the virus were regi...

Melvin Theuma has been asked to show proof that he owned a Mosta flat allegedly used in the 2010 HSBC bank heist as a safehouse by the criminals.Theuma, the self-confessed middleman in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, made a brief app...

Former Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil has said that the President of Malta George Vella should resign from his post.Busuttil, who currently occupies the position of Secretary-General of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, said: "Such is the s...

The Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation has categorically denied that patient data or information was ever to be transferred to any third party, including the Blockchain Charity Foundation."All patient information is treated as strictly confidentia...

A fraud who posed as a priest collecting money for charity wept in the dock as he was remanded in custody pending sentencing after pleading guilty to defrauding a 90-year-old man of some €3,000.This afternoon, Dillon Kenneth Junior Bartolo, 28, ...

The Commission for the Rights of Persons with a Disability (CRPD) received 24% fewer complaints from persons with a disability in 2020, when compared to 2019.In 2020, the CRPD received 475 requests for investigations into discriminatory issues, while...

Minister for Gozo Clint Camilleri has announced the extension of the 2020 Gozo Employment Refund Scheme.The main objective of this scheme, which is a key measure of the budget, is to drive the creation of sustainable jobs in Gozo on a full-time basis...

A legal notice implementing new social standards, regulating the operations of long-term homes for the elderly will be published in the coming days, Minister for Senior Citizens and Active Ageing Michael Farrugia said.He made this statement while bei...

The past few days have seen power cuts in a number of localities, the PN said, criticising the Labour government’s handling of the situation.“At a time when families needed stable electricity provision, the government gave them darkness a...

The Labour Party has described the PN as 'blackout experts', arguing that they are not credible when it comes to the energy sector.This was in response to a PN statement on the recent blackouts."It is an undisputed fact that energy provision interrup...

China suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball league games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan, as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.While the...

The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:World champion the Netherlands is out of the women’s handball competition at the Tokyo Olympics aft...

A new sea transport service between the Grand Harbour and Esplora was inaugurated as part of a project to restore the Kalkara coast near the facility, which was done through an investment of €2.5 million.During the inauguration, Prime Minister R...

One of our duties as journalists is to inform the public about various issues.Here is a lesson for some people out there, particularly those who comment beneath our stories on Facebook: hate speech is a crime.We say this because, over the past few da...

The PN's Executive Committee has elected Rudolph Marmara as its new Executive Organisational Secretary.This election came about after the post was vacated by Michael Piccinino, who was elected Secretary General.Marmara will be responsible for the org...

Jesmond Saliba has been appointed as the new Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations.Jesmond Saliba has worked in the public, private, and voluntary sectors where throughout his career he was entrusted with the policy-making of various entities and ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign, including from President Joe Biden and other onetime Democratic allies, after an investigation found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and worked to retaliate against one o...

The Speaker of the House Anglu Farrugia has refused the Nationalist Party's request to convene Parliament with urgency to discuss a motion of no confidence in Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis, the PN said in a statement.The Speaker noted that wha...

Assistant Commissioner Ian Abdilla, who is a former head of the economic crimes unit, has been suspended from the police force.Replying to The Malta Independent, the police said: "The Malta Police Force has suspended an MPF official in line with...

The Malta Development Bank has provided support to over half a billion euro in loans since the first scheme was launched back in late 2018, it said in a statement.These loans were taken up by close to 650 local businesses, operating across the local ...

Calls for the dismissal of Edward Zammit Lewis from his ministerial post continued on Tuesday evening, as Repubblika held a protest outside the Justice Ministry. "On his Wikipedia page, Minister Edward Zammit Lewis describes himself as being one...

The Speaker and Clerk of the House have hit back at the NGO Repubblika, describing a protest they had filed for not being allowed into Parliament last week as “unfounded” and “baseless.”In a counter-protest filed on Tuesday, t...

69 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported by health authorities, as the number of vaccinated persons exceeded 400,000.134 people meanwhile have recovered, and with no deaths reported in the last 24 hours the number of active cases currently stands ...

In view of heatwave that hit the Maltese Islands, Enemalta is postponing all maintenance works that are regularly scheduled on its distribution system, with the exception of those considered to be essential."All of Enemalta's engineers and technician...

The Public Inquiry Board has said that three pages were missing from the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry report that was published last week.In a statement issued through the Department of Information, the board said that pages 23, 61 and 261 from the...

A fishing trawler allegedly rammed a small fishing boat, leaving its two occupants in the sea, after it deemed the vessel to be in its way.Taking to social media, one of the two who ended up in the sea recounted how his first recreational fishing tri...

The significant increase in energy demand over the past weeks, together with the high temperatures caused damages on the low-voltage network, which effected a number of Enemalta clients in different localities, Enemalta said in a statement."Enemalta ...

A host of lengthy power cuts throughout the night have forced some to seek refuge in their air-conditioned cars in a bid to avoid Malta’s summer heat.Dreading more sleepless nights, the recurring lengthy power cuts across the island have forced...

Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo said the government is targeting sustainable quality tourism as it looks ahead to better times after the Covid-19 pandemic, which put the industry on its knees.Replying to questions by The Malta Independent, Bartolo s...

A 67-year-old Swieqi resident fell from a height of around one storey at 12.45pm, a police statement read.The man was working in a construction site on Naxxar road, San Gwann.The man suffered grievous injuries. Investigations are ongoing.

Employers have called for a ban on the government carrying out any public sector recruitment up to six months prior to a general election unless it is in critical professions, as a pre-election drain on human resources is forcing companies to opt for...

The police received reports of a man damaging cars on Cassarino road, St Paul's Bay, at 11.30pm on Monday night.In a statement, the police said that upon arrival at the location, they found a man, 25-years-old from Nigeria, nearby with a long metal r...

The €10 million Infrastructure Malta (IM) project that sought to rehabilitate Malta’s four main tunnels is now in its final stages, and is expected to be completed by the end of September, an IM spokesperson told The Malta Independent.Tech...

In a landmark judgement, the Agricultural leases board has ordered the eviction of two farmers from a field which they were renting under a protected pre-1995 lease. The judgement means that Nazzareno Pulis and Antonia Pulis, whose family has been re...

The Nationalist Party has called for the immediate resignation of Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis after "colluding with criminals" and referring to labour voters as 'fools', the party said in a statement.During a press conference, PN MP Karol Aq...

A Marsa shop owner has testified how he served as the go-between to hand over money to the brother of two men accused with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder.Joseph Brincat known as Sukku testified how Lawrence Pace, known as il-Lolly, used to giv...

Malta is one of 16 countries to be added to the United States’ ‘very high risk’ travel list as the country grapples with the Delta variant of Covid-19.The directive was issued by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, whi...

News reports last week revealed the kind of communication between Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis and Yorgen Fenech, the man who stands accused in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.While a number of whatsapp chats so far appear to ...

Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo and MTA Chairman Gavin Gulia announced a €35,000 investment to continue the restoration works at Auberge de France.Birgu Mayor John Boxall said that although the restoration works had been started by the local co...

Germany will start offering coronavirus vaccinations for all children and teenagers aged 12 and older, top health officials said Monday.German Health Minister Jens Spahn said after a meeting with the 16 German state health ministers that “we ke...

The governor of the area including Italy’s capital, Rome, sought on Monday to assure residents that a powerful hacking intrusion into the region's website, into its second day, won’t interrupt COVID-19 vaccinations.The Lazio region govern...

The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:___MEDAL ALERTAthing Mu has won the 800-meter gold medal for the United States in her first Olympics afte...

Edward Zammit Lewis has defended himself amidst calls for his resignation over ties to alleged Daphne Caruana Galizia murder mastermind Yorgen Fenech, saying that nothing new had been revealed in stories published over the weekend.Reports by MaltaTod...

64 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Monday, with the number of active cases decreasing.168 people have recovered, while nobody passed away in the last 24 hours – meaning that the number of active cases currently stan...

The PN have pledged to eradicate the ever-pervading obstacles of accessibility to Malta from the minds of Gozitans.The party’s Gozo spokesperson Chris Said, the MP Joe Ellis and the candidate Alex Borg on Monday addressed a press conference out...

Suspended police officer Glenn Carabott, who is currently facing rape charges, was granted bail by a court on Monday.In a decree in the criminal court, Judge Aaron Bugeja granted Carabott bail against a €5,000 deposit and a €5,000 personal ...

The Nationalist Party has filed its motion of no confidence in Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis, it said in a statement.“Edward Zammit Lewis is not worthy to serve as a government minister after the news emerged that he was conspiring and l...

The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life has issued guidelines to regulate the use of advertising and promotional material by the government and public entities.Earlier this year, the Commissioner had issued a number of guidelines for public con...

The popular show L-Erbgħa Fost il-Ġimgħa will be replaced by a new show called ‘Topik’, which will be hosted by the former presenter of Popolin Quinton Scerri.The news comes after it emerged on Sunday that L-Erbgħa Fos...

There have been many objections to the uprooting of mature trees around the island due to the countries several recent large-scale infrastructural projects with many arguing that Malta’s future generations will have to reap an increase in pollu...

The family of the late Brigadier Alfred Gatt has made a public appeal for help after Gatt’s Military Cross was lost while it was being taken to the National War Museum last week.Gatt is one of only nine Maltese to be awarded the Military Cross ...

Two Turkish mothers who were recently jailed for passport offences have filed an appeal, claiming that their six month jail sentences were too severe and that they were, essentially seeking asylum from the Erdogan regime in Turkey.On 28 July, Ra...

Civil society NGO Repubblika is urging the public to attend a protest on Tuesday where it will step up its call for Justice Minister Zammit Lewis to resign.The minister is under fire after the publication of more Whatsapp conversations he shared with...

Britain opened its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from the U.S. and the European Union on Monday as travel industry leaders urged the government to further ease restrictions and allow people to enjoy the benefits of a successful Covid-19 inoc...

A 74-year-old man was grievously injured in a traffic accident in Zurrieq on Monday.The accident took place on Triq il-Wied, at around 9:15am.The man was driving a Toyota Belta that was involved in a collision with a Ford Fiesta that was being driven...

A relative of pardoned middleman Melvin Theuma refused to testify on Monday in the compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech since she is facing separate criminal proceedings.The relative, whose name cannot be published, is accused of financial c...

The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:MEDAL ALERTDiscus thrower Valarie Allman won the first track and field gold medal for the United States a...

A Nationalist MP, an NGO head and journalists have been the target of hate speech on the social media, incidents which yet again show how this tool is being used to spew venom against others.Nationalist MP Karol Aquilina said he has written to the po...

In a bid to demonstrate their indebtedness to government employees who work in the psychoeducational sector (such as: student counsellors and learning support educators) - Minister for Education Justyne Caruana presided over the signing of a new 'Stu...