Over half of the COVID-19 patients at Mater Dei Hospital were found to be infected during testing when they were admitted for other conditions, Times of Malta can confirm. Public health chief Charmaine Gauci said on Thursday that the...

Malta’s leading business lobby wants business owners to have the right to ask workers to prove that they have been vaccinated.  Without that right, employers will be forced to manage workers’ quarantine “blindly” after a rec...

In teaching about justice, human rights and sustainability issues, the question I am most frequently asked is ‘But what can I do’?  I am normally reluctant to immediately answer the question. The issues involved are often an ide...

Hopefully, last year taught us we need to change the way we think about politics. A political scientist at Harvard, Erica Chenoweth, has famously stated a rule, that once a peaceful protest movement encompasses 3.5 per cent of the po...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index started the year in negative territory, as activity across 19 equities yielded an overall drop of 2.1%, to close the week at 8,023.942 points. Only four equities headed north, while 12 closed in the ...

Good governance should be the order of the day for any politician, newly co-opted MP Andy Ellul has told Times of Malta. Ellul is the latest recruit among Labour’s parliamentary group following the resignation of popular doctor Sil...

France is considering cancelling the Dakar rally after an explosion in Saudi Arabia that badly injured a French driver and prosecutors are investigating as a suspected terror attack, the foreign minister said.  French prosecutors sa...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta reports that a priest who made homophobic comments online, Fr David Muscat, is to be charged with hate speech by the police. The newspaper also reports ...

Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley boasted of his team’s “unbelievable job” after the visa crisis engulfing Novak Djokovic, in a video leaked to the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper on Saturday. Addressing the camera in the internal ...

In 1993-94 Hibernians won the seventh championship in their history.  After a rather lean period lasting 12 years, they finally satisfied their long-suffering supporters in what proved to be one of the toughest league campaigns in t...

A soup kitchen in Valletta served more than 30,000 meals to 8,600 guests in its first four months of operation, data released on Saturday indicated. Two out of every three guests at the Soup Kitchen OFM are male, the figures show, wi...

Times of Malta was recently involved in a project called Europe Talks, in which people passionate about certain issues were invited to have a conversation with someone on the other side of the debate. The pan-European event, steered ...

I have been following the raging controversy stemming from all the correspondence being regularly exchanged in the Times of Malta between those in favour of abortion and those against. Both sides are miles apart and can hardly compro...

The CES tech show in Las Vegas closed its 2022 edition on Friday, after pushing ahead with a significantly downsized gathering despite surging COVID cases. Industry behemoths like Amazon and Google stayed away over the virus risk, bu...

Generosity I wish to thank the Mission Fund and also the benefactors for the generous sum of money (€3,500) for the poor and also Mass intentions. I also wish to thank the public for supporting the Mission Fund and encourage them t...

Sidney Poitier, Hollywood's first major Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died at 94, prompting an outpouring of grief from the entertainment industry and beyond. Stars including Denzel Washing...

Despite manufacturing activity having gained some momentum during the latter half of 2021, the lingering concerns on yet another COVID infectious wave are rendering economic predictions for 2022 somewhat cloudy. As we continue to str...

In Memoriam MERCIECA – VINCENT. Trea-sured and loving memories of a dear husband and father. Fondly remembered today the 33rd anniversary of his passing. Always in our hearts and prayers. Mona, Martin, Rachel and respective familie...

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Malta’s worsening COVID-19 situation was among the most worrying in Europe at the end of the year, according to the EU’s infections agency. Malta was classified as being of “very high concern” with a score of nine out of 10, ...