A long-serving member of Parliament was stabbed to death Friday during a meeting with constituents at a church in England, in what police said was a terrorist incident. A 25-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attack, which united Britai...

Four years ago today, at around 3pm in the afternoon, a bomb went off and the country came to a halt.That Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally assassinated because of the stories she was working on as a  journalist is today, and in truth always h...

A prisoner serving time has been caught with a dossier with information about the children of politicians, journalists, TV personalities, members of the judiciary and other prominent people in society, TVM reports.The information, which also includes...

Today marks four years since the brutal murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb attack in Malta that shook the world, a group of civil society organisations said.“Our thoughts are with Caruana Galizia’s fam...

Protests erupted in Italy on Friday as one of the most stringent anti-coronavirus measures in Europe went into effect, requiring all workers, from magistrates to maids, to show a health pass to get into their place of employment.Police were out in fo...

A court in Naples has convicted the captain of an Italian commercial ship of abandonment-related charges for returning 101 migrants rescued at sea to Libya in 2018, in a ruling praised by human rights organizations.But the court absolved the captain ...

A number of Covid-19 restrictive measures are to be eased as from Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne announced.The Covid-19 situation remains under control, Fearne said. He said that since the Covid situation is under control, and a high numb...

British Conservative lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death on Friday during a routine meeting with constituents at a church in eastern England, an attack that united the U.K.'s fractious politicians in shock and sorrow. A 25-year-old man was arre...

The government’s discussions with Steward Health Care have not yet concluded, but they are close, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne confirmed with The Malta Independent.In September Fearne had also said that the two sides were close. The budge...

Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne kept his lips tightly sealed as to when an election will be called.Asked if he could give an indication as to when the election would be called, whether it would take place in November given the uncertainty the situ...

The Embassy of the United States of America has called for a “thorough, transparent, timely, and credible conclusion to the investigations into the murder” of Daphne Caruana Galizia. In a statement on the eve of the fourth anniversar...

The work to build an enabling environment for press freedom should follow a clear timeline aimed at bringing about cultural, political and legislative reform, the Daphne Caruana Galizia said Friday. “As we approach the fourth anniversary of Dap...

The number of hospitalisations of Covid-19 patients has returned to double digits as 25 new cases of the virus were reported by health authorities on Friday.24 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently st...

Malta would have faced a downturn in tourism even if the Coronovirus pandemic had not hit, as the number of available beds was growing higher than the actual demand, a study presented to the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association shows.Presenting t...

Orsetta Spinola, a member of CHANCE (Civil Hub Against Organised Crime), said on Friday that the true assassins of Daphne Caruan Galizia are still at large.Working with Repubblika, Libera, CHANCE and the European Network of Civil Society Organisation...

British health officials said Friday that 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have the coronavirus because of problems at a private laboratory. The U.K. Health Security Agency said the Immensa Health Clinic Ltd. lab in the ...

The time has come for the national broadcaster to be independent of government, Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech said today.He was speaking to journalists after meeting the Broadcasting Authority members, a day after he urgently requested to me...

The Air Malta flight transporting 135,690 AstraZeneca vaccines to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, has arrived, Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo said on Facebook.In a statement on Thursday, the airline had said that the charter flight was the longest non-st...

The sprawling Marbella estate where Boris Johnson has been staying this week, lent to him by environment minister Zac Goldsmith, has been held by an opaque offshore structure with links to Malta, The Guardian reports.The Pandora Papers “su...

The University of Malta Faculty of Laws has removed all capping of students for Master of Advocacy elective units following the chaos created on Thursday. Law students enrolled in the M.Adv course can now register for elective units of their choice a...

The Malta Police Union has issued industrial directives instructing officers to cease from helping Transport Malta and LESA to move cars which are obstructing certain areas.The union said that since Transport Malta officials have as much powers as th...

The suspect in a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people and wounded three in a quiet Norwegian town this week is facing a custody hearing Friday. He won't appear in court because he has confessed to the killings and has agreed to being held in ...

Maltese authors Charles Casha, Joseph Debono, Rita Saliba and Trevor Zahra received the Nazzareno Vassallo Award 2021 organised by CareMalta as part of the Vassallo Group’s 75th anniversary. The ceremony took place at San Anton Palace under the...

Antonio Palumbo, who heads Palumbo Shipyards, has won a lengthy eight-year legal battle in Sicily after the Messina Court of Appeal this week overturned his conviction in a case involving the illegal dumping of waste, the company said in a statement....

Following a decision by the ORNIS Committee not to recommend the opening of a finch trapping season this year, the Framework Law that permits such a research derogation has been repealed a few hours ago through Legal Notice 387 of 2021, BirdLife Malt...

The EU needs rules against vexatious legal actions intended to silence critical voices, according to the Parliament's Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs committees.In a draft report endorsed on Thursday with 63 votes for, 9 against, and 10 abstentions...

Konrad Mizzi’s refusal to attend Public Accounts Committee sittings that are delving into the Electrogas project is an insult to the people and to all Parliamentarians.Mizzi played a key role in the project, which was under his responsibility a...

A court has rejected government's effort to muzzle two teachers’ unions, turning down an application for a warrant of prohibitory injunction that would stop industrial action by educators.The State had filed for the injunction against teachers&...

Business & Professional Women (Valletta) Malta (BPW) on behalf of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW),  the Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society (MFWS) and Women Political Leaders (WPL) are pleased ...

A Nationalist Party study found that 80% of electricity bills issued by Enemalta have been miscalculated and overcharged people by amounts varying from €10 up to €300. PN chief spokesperson Peter Agius said that he “dreams of a day wh...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has written to the Broadcasting Authority, asking for an urgent meeting to be held no later than 15 October, over the situation at PBS.The meeting was called due to the circumstances within PBS, “where there is a...

Maltese language film Luzzu has been chosen as Malta’s Oscar candidate for the Best International Feature Film category in the prestigious film competition.The Malta Academy Selection Committee chose the film as its entry to the 94th Academy Aw...

19 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported by health authorities in their daily update.15 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 289.9 patients are currently receiving treatment at Mater Dei...

Air Malta will transport 135,690 AstraZeneca vaccines to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, in what will be the longest and farthest non-stop flight.In a statement, the airline said that the charter flight to Kigali will carry 135,690 AstraZeneca vaccines don...

Both of the fast ferry services which connect Gozo to Valletta have been suspended owing to the inclement weather hitting the Maltese islands.Virtu Ferries announced that “due to unfavourable sea conditions” they had to suspend their serv...

Independent authorities will be set up to manage the aviation, maritime and land sectors, which will replace Transport Malta as we know it today, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg said.Addressing a press conference, Borg said that this was...

Thirty-two irregular migrants who were held aboard Captain Morgan and Supreme Cruises' tourism boats in 2020 filed an application before the First Hall of the Civil Court in its Constitutional Jurisdiction , arguing that their human rights were breac...

Teatru Malta has launched their new season programme, featuring a production in commemoration of Oliver Friggieri a year after his death. Teatru Malta’s artistic director Sean Buhagiar, Minister for the National Heritage, Local Government ...

There is no reason why the site earmarked for the American University of Malta’s Zonqor campus and the Inwadar Park announced during the Budget should overlap, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has said.Speaking in an interview with The Malta Inde...

Geologist Peter Gatt has questioned why Malta has seemingly given up on oil and gas exploration, especially when the country’s Mediterranean counterparts have discovered such reserves in the last decade or so.Gatt was reacting to a statement ma...

The police were called out to the homes of Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi and a journalist in the early hours of Wednesday, after receiving spoof calls impersonating their numbers and indicating that they were in distress.The incident is an escalatio...

The Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism was awarded to the journalists from the Pegasus Project coordinated by the Forbidden Stories Consortium. The award ceremony held in the Press Centre of the European Parliament was opened by the Preside...

Law students camped outside their faculty office overnight to secure their course choices after the capping of places in elective study units.Some students are known to have spent the whole night outside the faculty door, while others who turned up i...

The Nationalist Party said today that the recent changes at the top posts of Enemalta are nothing more than a continuation of Joseph Muscat's legacy and a smokescreen for scandals and abuse.“The appointment of Jonathan Cardona is a&nb...

Norway’s domestic security agency says a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people appears to have been an act of terrorism.The agency, known by its acronym PST, said Thursday that Wednesday night's attack in a small Norwegian town “cu...

Bojan Cmelik has been convicted of the 2018 murder of Hugo Chetcuti by a jury of his peers and sentenced to life imprisonment with periods of solitary confinement.Mr. Justice Aaron Bugeja read out the judgment in court, taking just under an hour.A pe...

The Malta Independent on Sunday, last Sunday, reported that Labour Party MP Silvio Grixti received a direct order worth €37,200 from Transport Malta.The payment was for “consultancy fees” which, in the words of Grixti himself, transl...

An elderly woman was grievously injured when she was hit by a car in Floriana on Wednesday evening, the police said.The accident took place in St Publius Street at 7.20pm.The woman, aged 86 of Naxxar, was hit by a BMW 1161 driven by a 22-year-old man...

Romanian doctors sent an open letter Wednesday titled “a cry of despair” as the country's overwhelmed and deteriorated health care system copes with a record-setting surge of coronavirus infections and deaths.The College of Physicians of ...

MP Konrad Mizzi has again ignored a request by the Public Accounts Committee to appear before it to respond to questions about his role in the controversial Electrogas power station project.This is the second time he failed to appear before the commi...

New appointments have been made at the helm of Enemalta, with Jonathan Cardona taking over as CEO and Jonathan Scerri being appointed chairman.The company confirmed the appointments in a statement, saying that they had come into effect as from Monday...

65- year-old Antony Vella has been served with a suspended sentence together with a €20,000 fine and a ban on owning pets after eight of his dogs were found neglected in his Zejtun home. Vella was sentenced to two years imprisonment, suspen...

A 32-year-old Colombian DJ residing in Paceville has been denied bail after being accused of rape after meeting the alleged victim at a nightclub. The accused and the victim’s name could not be revealed due to a court ban. Magistrate ...

18 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities, as the number of people in intensive care has dropped to zero.13 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 285.7 patients are curren...

Expenditure on social benefits will near €1.2 billion in 2022, with the majority of them going to 95,000 pensioners, Solidarity and Social Justice Minister Michael Falzon said today.Addressing the media, Falzon said that the government continues...

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses said today it will not be bullied by the government's legal action.It is evident that the law Courts are being continuously used against MUMN so that professional health care workers are deprived from improved c...

Health authorities have warned bathers against swimming at Qui Si Sana in Sliema after a sewage overflow into the area.In a statement, the Environmental Health Directorate, within the Superintendence of Public Health, notified that until further noti...

Malta will be sending 135,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Rwanda, the Permanent Secretary for the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on Wednesday.Christopher Cutajar tweeted about the delivery to the African nation, saying that the v...

A few days ago, it was announced that Malta was put back on the European Union’s travel green list after spending most of the summer on the red and orange list after a spike in Covid-19 cases.This return to the green list happened after the num...

The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life has concluded that former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat did not commit a breach of ethics when he travelled to Italy with his family on a holiday funded by a third party in August 2020. At that time Muscat...

A lawyer for the two brothers indicted for the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has demanded the cancellation of all criminal proceedings against them, claiming that the evidence used was obtained illegally.This emerged in an application f...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry has noted the lack of significant improvement on the original white paper on the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use that was published earlier this year. The Chamber said that the...

Malta’s sexual health policy has gone back to the drawing board after it was found to be based on twelve year old research, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Tuesday.Fearne said that the public health department are now undertaking a new stu...

Given the success of previous free transport initiatives aimed at specific groups in society, the new free transport measure is aimed at a new bracket of people who are vehicle dependent, Transport Minister Ian Borg said in Parliament. Throughou...

In a judgement delivered on 30 June 2021 in the names of MSD (Darlington) Limited vs Dipartiment tal-Kuntratti, the Court of Appeal upheld an appeal lodged by the Department of Contracts (‘DoC’) and confirmed an evaluation committee&rsquo...

There has not been an update in the concession agreement the government has with Steward Healthcare for the administration of what were previously public hospitals, Health Minister Chris Fearne said today.Asked why more funds have been allocated in 2...

The jury in the trial of Bojan Cmelik have retired to reach their verdict after the presiding judge finished summing up the evidence and arguments made in the week-long trial.Cmelik, 38 from Serbia -also known as Bojan Mitic - is accused of the wilfu...

Another hat trick for Cristiano Ronaldo, another win — and qualification for the World Cup — for Denmark.And yet more crowd trouble in a game between England and Hungary.There was a sense of familiarity to the World Cup qualifiers in Euro...

A prosecutor in the jury trial of Bojan Cmelik, who stands accused of the murder of Paceville impresario Hugo Chetcuti has asked jurors to “screenshot” the first surgical intervention, saying that if not yet morally convinced that the cau...

The Nationalist Party today accused the government for not tackling the issue of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey-listing by failing to provide a coherent plan in the budget for 2022 as a way forward. Addressing a press conference, the PN&...

The Budget for 2022 shows how that Labour Party remains the “most credible force” to lead Malta, Prime Minister Robert Abela said in his post-Budget press conference outside Castille on Monday night.Abela emerged from Castille, flanked by...

In his reaction to the 2022 budget, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said that the government failed to present a budget with a clear strategy and direction. It instead presented a budget with no sense of credibility. In a press conference on Mon...

17 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities, as case numbers continue to remain largely stable.7 people, meanwhile, have recovered, meaning that Malta currently has 280 active cases of the virus.7 patients are currently being treated...

For a budget that is the last one to be presented during this legislature, this was certainly not your typical pre-election budget. Not that that is a bad thing. For pre-election budgets have become a thing of the past over the past seven or eight ye...

The British government waited too long to impose a lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, missing a chance to contain the disease and leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, lawmakers concluded Tuesday in a hard-hitting report.The d...

Another budget day – the ninth under a Labour administration – is upon us.Finance Minister Clyde Caruana will take to Parliament this evening to lay out the government’s economic plan for 2022 in what is his first budget speech.The ...

It was late on Christmas Eve last year when the European Union and Britain finally clinched a Brexit trade deal after years of wrangling, threats and missed deadlines to seal their divorce.There was hope that now-separated Britain and the 27-nation b...

As expected, constituted bodies gave their immediate reaction to the budget speech.Overall, there was positive feedback, particularly on social measures and others related to employment.But it was also pointed out that the budget failed to address th...

A woman was grievously injured on Monday afternoon when she was hit by a car, the police said.The accident happened in Sir Paul Boffa Avenua, Paola, at 2.45pm.The woman, aged 69 of Paola, was hit by a Suzuki Swift driven by a 34-year-old man of Tarxi...

Starting from October 2022, public transport will be made free to all residents of Malta and Gozo. This is the next step in tackling the problems of traffic congestion, the Finance Minister said.This would result in workers saving upwards of €30...

A 21-year-old Tarxien resident was arrested in connection to a store theft, the police said in a statement.During the night between Saturday and Sunday, a man had broken through a store door and stole a number of airsoft rifles, airsoft ammunition an...

Students across Malta and Gozo will benefit a 10% increase in their stipends. Those students who work up to 25 hours a week, will also benefit from this increase. These two measures will see a total investment of €5 million.The government is set...

The Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) will rise by €1.75 per week, as per the established formula. This increase will be given to all workers.In addition, the government said that it will start meeting stakeholders to discuss a new mechanism to h...

Some 95,000 pensioners, including retirees, disabled and others who receive a non-contributory pension will be getting a €5 weekly increase in their allotment, or €260 per year.This includes the €1.75 cost of living adjustment, which m...

Thunder had not rumbled in five months before September announced a change in season with three thunderstorms in the first 10 days of the month, the Met Office said in a statement.The first showers of the meteorological autumn also hit the Maltese is...

The list of free medicines will continue to be extended as from next year.The list will include oncology treatment for cancer patients, treatment for osteoporosis (20,000 patients), blood circulation medicinals (7,000 patients), psychiatric medicine ...

The government has committed to an afforestation project in the Inwadar park that extends from Xghajra to Zonqor in Marsascala. This project will see tens of thousands of trees planted.The project will make this a woodland area bigger than Buskett, t...

The government has announced tax relief measures when purchasing certain types of properties.Stamp Duty and Capital Gains tax will be removed on the first €750,000 when selling and purchasing one of the following property types: Those built more...

Malta is expected to recover more quickly from the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is forecasting a real growth of 6.5% and 8.6% in nominal terms in 2022, while the growth is expected to be 4.7% and 4.5% in 2023 and 2024.The...

Additional facilities will be rented out at Mater Dei Hospital to address the growing demand for acute and elective services in the most efficient and effective way.Despite the challenges Malta faced during the global pandemic, the government remaine...

The waiting list for social accommodation has been brought down to fewer than 1,800 persons, while the number of new applications has dropped by more than a half.This has happened after 700 social accommodation apartments were distributed by the Hous...

The government plans to build on the positive results the EcoHive group of projects has achieved given that the year 2021 was the best year in terms of recycling in its 19 years of existence.The waste-to-energy plant which forms part of the EcoHive p...

Following on the introduction of the agency responsible for food, the government plans to develop further the national policies for a strong food chain across the island.In order to incentivise the increase of land used for farming and also increase ...

A new income tax rate of 7.5% for artists will be introduced from basis year 2022.For the purpose of artists’ income tax, the government will introduce a mechanism that sets artists’ income over an average of 3 years.The government will b...

The Attorney General’s Office will be given additional prosecution functions in coordination with the police, the Finance Minister announced.This will be in line with a view to developing a specialised prosecution service in the Attorney’...

The government is carrying out work on drastically reducing the number of people living in the Marsa migrant centre. This process is at an advanced stage with the aim of completely shutting down the centre.  Among the measures the government has...

Malta obtained a dramatic 97th minute equaliser against Cyprus through substitute Jurgen Degabriele to earn its fifth point in the World Cup qualifying group.The result also leaves Mangia’s side just above Cyprus in the standings, with two matc...

As Germany became the first country to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, its former under-21 team coach was crying tears of joy after his first win in charge of Turkey.Stefan Kuntz was unable to keep his emotions in check after Burak Yilmaz’s pen...

A worker was critically injured after marble slabs fell on him, the police said.The accident took place in a factory at the Hal Far industrial estate on Monday at 2.30pm.The worker, a 21-year-old Eritrean who lives in Birzebbuga, was taken to hospita...

Eleven new Covid-19 cases were registered on Monday, while 22 patients have recovered.Health authorities said that seven patients are receiving treatment in hospital, one of whom is in intensive care.The number of active cases has now dropped to 270,...