Mariella Dimech has been appointed as the first Executive Chairperson of the Authority on the Responsible Use of Cannabis which has been established by means of Act LXVI of 2021, which came into force on the 18th of December 2021, the government...

Three local councils together with several organisations and residents have filed two Court actions against the approval of the massive DB project on the ex-ITS site, a statement by the group of dissenter said. One court action appeals the approval b...

PN MP David Thake has resigned from the Nationalist Party’s shadow cabinet and suspended himself from the party’s parliamentary group pending the outcome of a standards investigation into him.The news comes after Thake was the subject of ...

Politicians should work for all the Maltese and Gozitans, not just for the people in their district, PL MP Oliver Scicluna told The Malta Independent on Sunday.“We should lead by example because certain people will not stop asking favours for v...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines on Monday reported a record high number of new COVID-19 cases for the third day, logging 33,169 infections.The positivity rate, or percentage of tested people whose results came out positive, also soar...

Tennis star Novak Djokovic on Monday won a court battle to stay in Australia to contest the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated against CIOVID-19, but the government threatened to cancel his visa a second time.Federal Circuit Court Judge Antho...

Hospitals worked Monday to save the lives of multiple people gravely injured by smoke in a fire that killed 19 people, including nine children, in a Bronx apartment building.Dozens of people were hospitalized, and as many as 13 were in critical condi...

The number of Covid-19 cases reported by health authorities has continued what appears to be a downward trend, with 563 new cases of the virus reported on Sunday.However, a 63-year-old man became the 488th person to pass away while positive for the v...

In 2019, government started a debate on the decriminalisation and regularisation of prostitution in Malta. The main aim of the reform would be to “protect vulnerable people from being exploited as sex workers and at the same time further enhanc...

Last Sunday Malta woke up to the grim news that a young Polish girl had been found murdered in Sliema.The circumstances of the crime immediately gripped the attention of many, and the social media was taken by storm as everyone wanted to have a say o...

Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” died while on a stand-up tour. He was 65.De...

Justyne Caruana is only the latest in a list of Labour politicians who were found to have breached ethical standards in their behaviour in public life.Caruana resigned in the week leading up to Christmas after the Standards Commissioner established t...

Caretaker governments should not be allowed to pass new laws and issue permits or allocate government land and housing, a draft Bill drawn up by the Opposition proposes. The draft Bill is one of twelve put forward yesterday by Opposition Leader Berna...

Despite challenges and setbacks, including those caused by the global pandemic, many of the recommendations put forward by the Animal Welfare Commissioner have made it to full or partial implementation, while others are in the process of being implem...

Third-round exits in the FA Cup don't come along very often for Arsenal.Unless, that is, Nottingham Forest is the opponent.Failing to transfer its improved Premier League form to the world's oldest knockout competition, Arsenal was beaten 1-0 by seco...

José Mourinho left Italy more than a decade ago as a Champions League winner, Serie A champion and Italian Cup victor after guiding Inter Milan to a memorable “tripletta” — treble.Flash forward a dozen years and the outspoken...

PN leader Bernard Grech has no moral authority to take action against those who “put him” in his role as party leader, Prime Minister Robert Abela said as the opposition leader faces pressure over his handling of one of his MP’s tax...

The current PL government is not capable, or does not want to do the right thing, despite the damage it has caused over the past few months, said Opposition leader Bernard Grech in an interview with NET News on the program Analiżi.“The rea...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's ruling parties are hitting the brakes on plans for compulsory coronavirus vaccinations, saying it may take months for lawmakers to properly debate the contentious measure in parliament.Berlin daily Tagesspiegel on Sunday...

A biker was grievously injured in a crash in Zejtun on Saturday evening, the police said.The accident took place in Toni Zahra Street at 8pm.The biker, an Indian man aged 26, was riding a Sym Symphony which was involved in a crash with a Toyota Vitz,...

A man who had been reported missing a few days ago was found “safe and sound”, the police said.Englishman John Davis, who lives in Kercem, had been reported missing on Friday.The police said Sunday that the man was found by officers durin...

An important element of the Valletta Sacra Infermeria of the Knights of St. John was the pharmacy, known as the spezieria. Its role was to prepare the medicines to be used within the Infermeria itself, as well as in other places, such as the Order&rs...

For more than 40 years, Twanny Scerri has been a hallmark of radio broadcasting, first on Malta’s national radio stations and now on Calypso Radio.It was always his wish to be behind a microphone, and his love for Italian music and connections ...

When a priest preaches hate, you know that there’s something very, very wrong. When a priest says that being gay is worse than being possessed by a demon, you know that we still have a long way to go as a country, as far as tolerance goes. Towa...

After four nights in an Australian immigration detention hotel, Novak Djokovic will get his day in court Monday in a deportation case that has polarized opinions and elicited heartfelt support for the top-ranked tennis star in his native Serbia.Djoko...

If you’re planning to go to Gozo in the next few months, you will likely experience delays arriving at Cirkewwa as road works at Ghadira begin on Monday.Infrastructure Malta said on its Facebook page that it is working with the Water Services C...

Thousands of jellyfish washed up at Armier over the weekend, a phenomenon that occurs every year according to marine biologist Alan Deidun.Adult mauve stingers, he wrote on Facebook, come up from the bottom of the sea to lay their eggs before they di...

The number of people requiring hospital treatment is up by four on Saturday, compared to Friday, while two more patients have died, health authorities said.On the brighter side, the number of mpeople who recovered from the virus, for the second day r...

MUMN is seeking a meeting with the Health Minister related to “the problems which employees are going to face regarding the different quarantine days issued to persons (and their children) according to their boosters.”How can parents who ...

Two women were injured when the car they were in crashed into a wall and overturned, the police said.The accident took place in Mdina Road, Rabat, at 11 am on Saturday.The car, a Volkswagen Bora, was being driven by a 25-year-old man of Mosta.The two...

The Nationalist Party on Saturday announced a package of 12 legislative bills aimed to implement the major findings of the public inquiry into the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and to fight corruption.In a press confere...

Valletta: Royal Pharmacy, 271, Republic Street; Ħamrun: Darwin Pharmacy, 152, St Joseph High Road; Santa Venera: Collis Williams St Venera Pharmacy, 532, St Joseph High Road; Birkirkara: Mint Care Pharmacy, 5B-71 Brared Street; Msida: Brown's Ph...

U.K. government advisers have recommended against giving a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80 because data shows that a third shot offers lasting protection against admission to the hospital.For people over 6...

Sliema residents on Saturday gathered in support of Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar and the Sliema Local Council in denouncing what the organisation described as “the Planning Authority’s connivance with developers to ruin Sliema&rd...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry said Saturday that the latest announcement on quarantine letters oblige employers to be aware of their employees’ vaccination status. Consequently, it is imperative that employers have the ...

Polish Ambassador to Malta Tomasz Czyszek has said he was “profoundly touched” by the solidarity shown by the Maltese citizens as well as Poles living in Malta following the gruesome murder of a 29-year-old Polish girl last Sunday.Paulina...

Troops have been deployed to London hospitals. Health care workers infected with COVID-19 are treating patients in France. The Netherlands is under a lockdown, and tented field hospitals have gone up in Sicily.Nations across Europe are scrambling to ...

At least Newcastle’s fight to stay in the English Premier League won’t be hampered by a deep run in the FA Cup.In further embarrassment for a club with the world’s richest owners, Saudi-controlled Newcastle was beaten by third-tier ...

Novak Djokovic's lawyers filed court papers Saturday in his challenge against deportation from Australia that show the tennis star tested positive for COVID-19 last month and recovered, grounds he used in applying for a medical exemption to the count...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Tighter pandemic measures came into force in Romania on Saturday as authorities hoped to quell sharply rising coronavirus cases amid concerns that the next virus wave could overstretch the country’s health care s...

The murder of Paulina Dembska is one which shocked the nation.The Polish language student was found dead last week in a garden in Sliema which she used to frequent to feed the colony of cats that lives there, with an autopsy later finding that she ha...

As countless millions of people in Europe waste hours in lines for COVID-19 tests and scour their nasal passages with self-test kits at home, at the other end of the chain, workers are straining to meet the demand.At NG Biotech, production lines are ...

ABBA party leader Ivan Grech Mintoff said Saturday that there is no connection between the party and the suspect in the murder of a Polish woman.In a statement, Grech Mintoff said that “the blatant attacks on Christian entities (parties, church...

An investment company has been handed a hefty fine by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) over a number of anti-money laundering shortcomings which saw millions be invested without robust controls in place.Southern Cross SICAV plc were fi...

The number of Covid-19 recoveries reported on Friday exceeded the number of new cases found for the first time in almost a month, health authorities shared in their latest update on the pandemic.786 new cases of the virus were reported by health auth...

There needs to be more action to avoid as much violence in society as possible, as well as to increasingly protect women, said Opposition leader Bernard Grech on a video post on Facebook.This is in light of the fear which has been reigning women afte...

The Malta Police Union is dismayed and disappointed by the plea deal struck in the HSBC heist case.Darren Debono, known as it-Topo, sensationally pleaded guilty to his involvement in the 2010 heist on the eve of the beginning of the trial b...

The police will issue online hate speech charges against Fr David Muscat, the priest who said on Facebook that being gay is worse than being possessed by devil, MaltaToday reports.It is expected that he will be arraigned towards the end of January.Re...

Novak Djokovic isn’t alone in having his visa canceled after flying in for the Australian Open without the required evidence to support a medical exemption to the country’s strict COVID-19 vaccination rules.Djokovic was denied entry when ...

The Malta Developers Associated has objected to a planning application filed by Marsaxlokk Football Club, saying that the proposal gives the club an unfair advantage over private developers. The application is for the football club to expand its...

Police have appealed for assistance in finding an elderly Englishman, who has been reported missing.John Davis, aged 71, lives in Kercem, Gozo.He was last seen in Cirkewwa wearing a brown-red shirt, black trousers, and sandals.  He was carrying ...

Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, has...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna has issued a formal warning to controversial priest David Muscat, referred to in Canon Law as a penal precept, instructing the priest to cease making inflammatory and hurtful comments in public forums or face prohibition f...

The Planning Authority has categorically denied claims of “collusion” made in public in relation to illegal works carried out on the former Barracuda Restaurant in St Julian’s. As a matter of fact, the PA said in a statement, althou...

NFT or Non-fungible Token is a type of token representing any particular asset in digital form. The term non-fungible means the items that are irreplaceable for their innovative attributes. Now, this could be anything, starting from art to real estat...

Germany's leaders are set to consider possible new restrictions and changes to quarantine rules on Friday as the new omicron variant advances quickly.Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the country’s 16 state governors are likely to build on restriction...

There is no room for hateful acts or comments which are based on sexuality, Minister for Inclusion and Social Wellbeing Julia Farrugia Portelli told The Malta Independent on Friday.She was asked about what she has described as "homophobic" towards ga...

The government signed a €2.9 million investment agreement with the Inspire Foundation, to further assist persons with disabilities, Inclusion Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli said. The investment saw a €1.1 million increase from the precedi...

The Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA) said a long list of toys are being recalled as they do not comply with safety requirements. They include toys obtained via online purchases.The products are being recalled as they do n...

The Celebration of Life for beloved doctor Victor Calvagna will take place on Wednesday 12 January, Puttinu Cares has announced. The funeral will be held at the Mosta rotunda at 3:30pm. Calvagna passed away on Tuesday, a week after he was h...

Disgraced former minister Justyne Caruana is set to receive a €30,000 ‘golden handshake’ after she resigned in the wake of a damning standards report, according to reports. To make matters worse, this will be the second time in the s...

One of the first studies to track whether COVID-19 vaccination might affect women’s periods found a small and temporary change.Research published Wednesday tracked nearly 4,000 U.S. women through six menstrual cycles and on average, the next pe...

A Romanian man was sentenced to 21 months in jail in connection with a theft in Santa Venera, which took place in November 2015.In a statement, the police said that the man was arrested in Spain and brought over to Malta.Electronic equipment and jewe...

An investigation has been launched into what a controversial priest wrote about gay persons on Facebook, police sources have confirmed.Mosta priest Fr David Muscat has angered many after he wrote that if the person who is a suspect in the murder of a...

Two more Covid-19 patients have died as a result of the virus, health authorities announced on Thursday, while 1,144 cases were reported.Authorities said that a 56-year-old woman and a 67-year-old woman had died while Covid-19 positive, taking Malta&...

The PN and the NGO Repubblika have said that the Attorney General has an obligation to explain the decisions which it has taken in connection with the botched HSBC heist.The statements come after Darren Debono, known as it-Topo, sensationally pleaded...

MSC Cruises has said in a statement that the MSC Grandiosa will not enter Malta on Thursday after a “limited number” of positive Covid-19 cases were identified on board the ship.The company however denied reports that there were “hu...

On a tennis court, Novak Djokovic’s timing is perfect. But when he arrived in Australia to play the first Grand Slam of the year holding documents allowing him to enter the country without a COVID-19 vaccine, his timing hardly could have been w...

Mr Justice Giovanni Grixti has jailed Darren Debono known as it-Topo, after he pleaded guilty this morning to involvement in an unsuccessful 2010 attempted armed robbery at the HSBC headquarters.Debono’s lawyers and the Attorney General’s...

PN MP David Thake has filed a libel case against a One News editor and a One News journalist over a news article published under the title 'Thake iħallas biss wara li nkixef li ma ħallasx il-VAT' (Thake only pays after it is revealed that h...

The situation at Mater Dei Hospital pertaining to Covid-19 has been described as “stable”, with Public Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci saying in an interview that the majority of people are in hospital not due to Covid-19, but for o...

Jose Mourinho was left gesticulating in apparent disapproval after two grievous errors from his Roma players handed AC Milan a 3-1 win in Serie A on Thursday.First, striker Tammy Abraham stuck out his arm to block a shot that resulted in a penalty fo...

PN Whip Robert Cutajar has said that plans by the Lands Authority to lease out land in Mellieha for beekeeping has raised questions and doubts.The issue surrounds a lease by the Lands Authority of an agricultural site located outside the development ...

The AX Group plans to list one of its companies on the Malta Stock Exchange to help raise funds for two major projects, Group CEO Michael Warrington said during an interview.The Group recently underwent a reorganisation, consolidating its property as...

Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) has increased its Covid-19 testing capacity in the laboratory of Gozo General Hospital (GGH), through the introduction of a second rapid PCR analyser. The introduction of extra rapid testing capacity enables admitted ...

The Italian government approved a measure Wednesday requiring people older than 50 to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, as the country struggles with nearly daily new records of fresh infections fueled by the omicron variant.Earlier in the day, ...

A cyclist was grievously injured after he was hit by a car in St Paul’s Bay on Wednesday evening, the police said.The accident happened in Mosta Road at 9pm.The cyclist, a man aged 37, was hit by a VW Passat driven by a 35-year-old man of Dingl...

The government has finally given a sliver of information about the presence of the omicron variant of Covid-19.In a tweet last Monday, Health Minister Chris Fearne said that two thirds of the Covid-19 cases which were sequenced by the health authorit...

The government should immediately say that it is extending the wage supplement scheme to counter the effects of Covid-19 until March, and not leave the private sector in the dark, PN deputy leader Robert Arrigo said Thursday.Addressing a press confer...

PL MP Oliver Scicluna has taken to Facebook to express his anger and offence at people offering him their vote in exchange for favours, saying that this is a practice and mentality which needs to stop.Scicluna, who has been an MP for almost a year no...

Darren Debono ‘it-Topo’ has pleaded guilty over his role in the failed 2010 HSBC heist ahead of Vince Muscat’s trial, which is set to begin on Thursday.MaltaToday reports that Debono pleaded guilty during an urgent sitting held on W...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia saw another day of rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on Thursday amid fears that changes to testing requirements could mask the full scale of the outbreak.The country reported 72,000 cases, up from 64,000 a day ...

922 cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Wednesday as two more patients passed away while positive for the virus.During the last 24 hours, a 65-year-old man and a 69-year-old woman died while they were positive for Covid-19, bring...

The family of a Polish woman who was murdered in Malta on Sunday only learnt about the case from the media. Relatives of Paulina Dembska also told Polish newspaper Fakt that they did not get the help of a psychologist.Dembska, 29, was found dead at S...

PN MP Hermann Schiavone has announced that he will be retiring from politics after the end of this legislature.In a social media post, Schiavone said he had discussed his decision with party leader Bernard Grech.He said he has come to the conclusion ...

National airline Air Malta has said that it will not be cancelling any of its routes, but that it will be decreasing the number of flights operating on some of them owing to a downturn in bookings.Air Malta is operating 16 routes this winter, and tho...

Novak Djokovic’s chance to play for a 10th Australian Open title was thrown into limbo Thursday when the country denied him entry and canceled his visa because he failed to meet the requirements for an exemption to COVID-19 vaccination rules.Th...

St Julian’s mayor Albert Buttigieg today condemned the Planning Authority’s delay in issuing a ‘stop notice’ on the works taking place at the Barracuda restaurant in Balluta Bay, despite the architect requesting a suspension o...

The National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE) has expressed its sorrow and outrage at the femicide of Paulina Dembska, saying that it is a wake-up call for all to address gender inequality in our society. The commission said that ...

Legal reforms are not enough to tackle problems related to violence, Minister for Equality, Research and Innovation Owen Bonnici said on Wednesday.In comments to The Malta Independent in the wake of the murder of a Polish woman, Pauline Dembska, last...

Squandering of money has become a serious problem in the country, as endless reports of power and tax abuse by officials have been consistent throughout the years, PN candidate Joseph Grech said in a press conference on Wednesday.The cliques and frie...

The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss the chance to grill Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the government's COVID-19 policies Wednesday as soaring infections strain the U.K. health system....

Surveys done on overall sales in restaurants over the Christmas period were lower than those of the year 2020, particularly with regards to Christmas Eve dinners, the secretary of the Association of Catering Establishments, Matthew Pace, told The Mal...

A vigil for murder victim Paulina Dembska was held in Sliema on Tuesday evening, where the victim's family asked the hundreds present to pray for their daughter.Dembska was found dead in Independence Garden in Sliema at around 6:20 am on 2 January.Th...

The NGO Repubblika has claimed to have information which that political pressure is being put on members of the police force to not arraign any Labour politician – past or present – on charges of corruption before the next general electio...

Robert Abela has done it again.Once more since he took over the reins of the country from Joseph Muscat, he has shown total disregard to the democratic process.It was announced on Monday that the Labour Party had approved the nomination of lawyer And...

French President Emmanuel Macron has provoked outcries in parliament and protests from election rivals by using a vulgarity to describe his strategy for pressuring vaccine refusers to get coronavirus jabs.Macron used the French word “emmerder,&...

A man was grievously injured when machinery toppled onto his foot while he was working in a quarry, the police said.The accident took place in Wied Filep, Naxxar, at 5pm on Tuesday, the police said.The 53-year-old Mgarr resident was taken to hospital...

Like many people, Alberto Pérez of Madrid used a home test to discover that his headache and cold-like symptoms were caused by COVID-19.Unable to contact his local health center, where calls went unanswered and online appointments were booked ...