The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, has called on Malta to repeal its blanket ban on abortion, saying that it puts women’s right to health at risk, and said that it is high-time that justice for Daphne Car...

A stretch of undeveloped land at Żonqor Point which was handed over to the American University of Malta as part of a deal will be returned to the government, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Monday.Speaking on TVM’s Xtra, Abela said the...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden is recommending a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose to people over age 80 and those living in nursing homes or getting home care, authorities said Monday, adding it must be administered no earlier than four months after the p...

Robert Abela is fast becoming a replica of his predecessor Joseph Muscat.Soon after taking over Castille, Abela’s undeclared but obvious aim was to distance himself from Muscat, who ended his tenure as Prime Minister with the title of man of th...

As the West warily eyed Russian troop movements near Ukraine, European leaders headed to the region Tuesday for last-minute diplomacy, buoyed by signals from the Kremlin that there was a still way to head off a feared invasion and avoid war.After wee...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has said that the property deal he had a stake in with Christian Borg was over a small Zabbar plot.The Times of Malta on Sunday had reported that Abela had a stake in a property deal back in 2018 which was eventually trans...

571 Air Malta employees have taken up the government’s offer of a voluntary transfer as part of a last-ditch government attempt to save the national airline.In a statement on Monday, the airline said that the total number of applications receiv...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said Monday that Prime Minister Robert Abela had sent a drone to film his Mosta home.“Instead of answering legitimate questions from journalists, he ordered One News to invent a story about me,” he said in ...

The government and the Opposition both stated on Monday that they will be voting in favor of enacting Constitutional through legal amendments on femicide. The amendment were presented by the government last week.Starting off the second reading of the...

Three people have died while positive for Covid-19, as 72 new cases of the virus were reported by health authorities on Monday.Authorities said that a 39-year-old man – one of the youngest victims of the pandemic so far, a 92-year-old man, and ...

Another week has passed since he was last asked the question, but Tourism Minister was still unable on Monday to say how much was spent on the Malta Film Awards ceremony. The gala event reportedly went well over its €400,000 budget, but neither ...

Transport Minister Ian Borg on Monday defended plans to develop Marsascala Bay into a yacht marina by saying that even a Nationalist government had built a marina in Vittoriosa, despite having earlier said it was against such plans, and despite peopl...

January traffic through Malta International Airport increased fourfold over the same month in 2021. However, last month’s passenger numbers remained 62 per cent below pre-pandemic levels (2020), as the effect of restrictions intr...

Almost 1 million people visited Malta during 2021, as number recovered slightly when compared to 2020, but still remain significantly lower than 2019, the last full year before the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe.A total of 969,246 visitors entered Malt...

Two Maltese men have been arrested by police in a major cannabis bust which saw drugs worth some €700,000 and around €300,000 in cash being found in Zebbug.In a statement police said that they had arrested a 39-year-old man and a 36-year-ol...

Veteran journalist Victor Vella has been suspended as the editor of newspapers L-Orizzont and it-Torca by Union Print, although the General Workers' Union insists that this did not happen as a result of his editoral stance with the newspapers.Vella h...

Covid-19 restrictions continue to ease today, and measures announced by the government a few weeks ago come into effect.At the end of January, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne had announced that a valid vaccine certificate will ...

In the last nine years, the Maltese Maritime Registry has doubled its registry tonnage, transport minister Ian Borg said during a press conference on Monday.Elaborating on the subject, Borg said that in 2012 there were around 45 million tonnes regist...

A 1-0 loss to Gudja United on Sunday proved to be the straw that broke the camel’s back for Hamrun Spartans, who have announced that their coach Mark Buttigieg has been relieved of his duties with the team.Hamrun announced the news in a press r...

Prime Minister Robert Abela must answer to the questions concerning his involvement in a property deal with an alleged criminal, who was recently charged with kidnapping, PN MP Jason Azzopardi said today.Times of Malta reported on Sunday that Abela h...

The two rugby pitches in Marsa used for domestic matches and national team training are to be passed on to the Malta Rugby Football Union through a management agreement, the Sports Ministry has confirmed with The Malta Independent.In January Kevin Bu...

The person who, last March, took the decision to charge two former directors of Zenith Finance with money laundering in their personal capacity, despite being aware that they had made no personal gains “will bear the consequences”, the di...

The police superintendent who led the investigations into a Zebbug man, who stands charged with attempting to purchase military-grade explosives on the dark web, has told a court that the accused had been arrested as part of an anti-narcotics operati...

An NGO has claimed that the Armed Forces of Malta instructed a merchant vessel not to rescue some 90 migrants who were in distress in Malta’s search and rescue zone.The NGO Alarm Phone, which monitors migrant crossings in the Mediterranean, sai...

The British charity Abortion Support Network has supported 269 clients from Malta who were seeking information, logistics and financial support to access an abortion, which remains completely criminalised in Malta, the network said.“The charity...

In 2021, the number of final deeds of sale relating to residential property amounted to 14,362, statistics by the National Statistics Office showed. This is an increase over the 11,057 that were registered in 2020.The total value of the deeds of sale...

German investment flows into Malta do not seem to have been impacted by the country’s greylisting, Germany’s ambassador Walter Hassmann told The Malta Independent in an interview “I haven’t seen any drastic results, though suc...

The latest news in the Marsascala yacht marina proposal saga puts the ball squarely in the government’s court. Will it listen to the locality, or do whatever it wants?Minister Ian Borg, according to a statement by Moviment Graffitti, had pledge...

The company which owns and runs the American University of Malta (AUM) registered €3.3m in financial losses in 2020, accounting records seen by The Malta Independent on Sunday show.Financial records show that Sadeen Education Investment Limited ...

The Labour Party has always shown that it is united, PL deputy leader for Party Affairs Daniel Micallef told The Malta Independent on Sunday in an interview.Micallef was asked about speculation regarding internal issues within the party since th...

We first had the Justice Minister vehemently telling us that there is no point in including “femicide” as a separate criminal offence.We already have the crime of voluntary homicide that carries the highest possible punishment, irrespecti...

Four people died with Covid-19 on Sunday.Two of the latest victims were women aged 77 and 83 and the other two were men aged 65 and 66. The total number of deaths now stands at 589.116 new cases were registered on Sunday, while 207 people recovered f...

Robert Abela and Bernard Grech will in this year’s general election become the fourth pair of party leaders since Malta’s Independence to face off on the ballot sheet of the same district.Indeed, the PL and PN leaders will both have their...

The last thing a greylisted country needs is a shadow being cast over the Prime Minister, "that he could have been involved in money laundering schemes," the PN said in a statement.The Times of Malta reports that Abela was involved in a property deal...

All unpaid taxes and social security contributions which businesses have accumulated during the pandemic will be allowed to be paid over eight years under a nationalist government, PN leader Bernard Grech on Sunday.He was addressing a political event...

Prime Minister Robert Abela took aim at the Opposition on Sunday, claiming that the PN is stuck in the past.Abela was addressing a Labour Party political activity in Tarxien."The PL believes in investing in people to grow the economy. The PN is ancho...

Five men were arrested over drug trafficking and possession in Gozo.Following days of observation, the police conducted a search in an Għajnsielem establishment. Suspected cocaine was found in the possession of three men aged 22, 30 and 59. Anot...

Coeliac disease is a condition, which causes serious inflammatory problems in the gastrointestinal tract upon consumption of gluten, found in wheat, barley and rye. Gluten free products have become increasingly available in supermarkets over the year...

Gudja United grabbed three valuable points in their quest against relegation when they faced a difficult opponent named Ħamrun Spartans. In the end it was the Southern team that prevailed over the reigning Champions who are now completed ruled o...

The wind was howling. The rain was lashing down. The challenges were flying in. And, for once, Mohamed Salah was having a quiet day.Everything was set up at Turf Moor for Liverpool to drop vital points against Burnley in its improbable attempt to ree...

Milan surged to the top of Serie A with a 1-0 win over Sampdoria on Sunday.After beating city rival Inter Milan 2-1 in the previous round, Milan was third in the standings going into its game against Sampdoria and trailed leader Inter — which w...

In 2019, she was the first woman in more than 12 years to be entrusted with delivering sports news on TVM’s 8pm new bulletin.Joanna Camilleri, who had won the gold medal for Malta in judo at the Games for Small European Nations in 2007, joined ...

The election hype is mounting again, in similar fashion as it did towards the end of summer last year.That time, it was the Nationalist Party, which was pushing the idea of a November election, and the momentum had increased so much that it spurred P...

PARIS (AP) — Paris police fired tear gas Saturday against a handful of demonstrators on the Champs-Elysees Avenue who defied a police order by taking part in a vehicle protest against virus restrictions inspired by Canada’s horn-honk...

Six persons died with Covid-19, health authorities reported Saturday, while the number of new cases reached 107.The latest victims are four men - two aged 66, and two others aged 80 and 96; and two women aged 86 and 89.In all, 585 persons have dies w...

A man died on Saturday in hospital after he fell down a staircase the night before, the police said.The accident took place in a residence in Qasam Street, Swieqi, at 8.30pm.The man, aged 87, was taken to hospital with serious injuries on Friday.On S...

Marsascala residents have again expressed themselves against a marina in the locality’s bay, hoping that the government will listen to their pleas.On 20 January 2022, the Marsascala Local Council met with Minister Ian Borg on the issue of the y...

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Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations Jesmond Saliba has announced that the Office of the Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations (OCVO) will be launching the ‘The Victor Calvagna Child Volunteer of the Year’ Annual Award.Calvagna die...

The Office of The Commissioner for Animal Welfare is inviting members of the public to share their pet adoption stories.The idea is to encourage others to adopt animals and take care of them in their homes.“Whether you've adopted a cat, a dog, ...

Independent candidate Arnold Cassola has sought an explanation from the Commissioner for Children on the presence of two ministers in a school.In his letter to the commissioner, Cassola said that Covid protocols have prevented parents from entering a...

The Labour party is a government which believes in a policy of wealth and prosperity, rather than austerity – an attitude adopted by the Nationalist Party, Labour Whip Glenn Bedingfield said on Saturday.During a press conference which was held ...

The Nationalist Party has said that the government confirmed that it is deliberately stealing money from the public through taxes.In a press statement published on Saturday, the PN said that Finance Minister Clyde Caruana confirmed this on the spot o...

Hibernians were in a dominant mood when they easily disposed of Valletta by a 4-1 scoreline. It was a deserved win for the Paolites and above all another three points in the bag.Not the same can be said of their opponents Valletta who are now in dire...

The gulf between the two Manchester clubs was at its most stark in the English Premier League on Saturday.A few hours after United's latest disjointed display in a 1-1 draw at home to Southampton, City coped just fine with resting key players in a 4-...

Chelsea extended Europe's domination of the Club World Cup by beating Palmeiras 2-1 after extra time on Saturday to win the intercontinental title for the first time.Kai Havertz, the forward who scored Chelsea's winner in last season's Champions Leag...

Edin Dzeko's second-half equalizer at Napoli secured for Inter Milan a 1-1 draw and the Serie A lead on Saturday.Napoli could have gone on top with a win. Instead, Inter has a one-point lead over Napoli with a game in hand, and third-placed AC Milan ...

As part of the €7 million investment in the creative and culture sectors for 2022 by Arts Council Malta, Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government José Herrera and Arts Council Malta (ACM) Director Funding and Stra...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Health authorities in Denmark said Friday that they were considering “winding down” the country's coronavirus vaccination program in the spring and see no reason now to administer a booster dose to childre...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured in a crash in Rabat on Friday morning, the police said Saturday.The accident took place in Gorg Borg Olivier Road at 10.45am.The biker, a 48-year-old man from St Paul’s Bay, was involved in a crash with a T...

The examination period is very much upon our country’s younger generations at the moment, as children of most, if not all, ages across the country contend with their mid-yearly tests and exams.This editorial is born out of something related to ...

ADPD – The Green Party said that the Central Link project failed to adhere to the modern principles applied in European countries whereby roads encourage sustainable mobility while supporting and improving the quality of life of communities.Add...

Around 75% of the 340,000 emergency calls received by the 112  hotline last year were hoaxes, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri said on Friday.The minister said the emergency hotline should not be misused as people's lives were at stake.Ther...

Vaccinated travellers can enter Britain without taking any coronavirus tests starting Friday, after the government scrapped one of the final restrictions imposed over the past two years in response to COVID-19.British residents and visitors who have ...

Silvio Zammit, accused of soliciting a €60 million bribe in return to influence then European Commissioner John Dalli to lift a retail ban on smokeless tobacco, has died, the Sliema local council said.He was 57.Zammit, a restaurateur, was well-k...

Three more men have died while positive for Covid-19, as health authorities reported 143 new cases in their daily update on Friday.Authorities said that three men aged 80, 85, and 92 respectively had died while positive for the virus, therefore takin...

Maltese MEP David Casa has presented the updated report on the Social Climate Fund to the European Parliament, a €72.2 billion initiative to ensure that the transition to a greener economy is also a social one. The report is expected to be table...

The 'exaggerated processes' of due diligence, which have become longer and more detailed due to Malta's position on the FATF grey list, are negatively affecting Maltese businesses as well as possible foreign investors, PN spokesperson Peter Agius sai...

Malta’s 2020 statistics for renewable energy used for heating and cooling accounts for 23.027%, on par with the total average of renewable energy used for the same purposes within the European Union in the same year, that of 23.090%.Eurostat st...

A Turk was grievously injured in a construction site accident in Kalkara on Friday, police said.In a statement, police said that the man, a 41-year-old Turk who lives in Gzira sustained injuries after he fell around a storey-and-a-half at a construct...

A man was grievously injured this morning when the car he was driving crashed into plastic barriers and heavy machinery parked on the side of the road, the police said.The accident happened in Ghajn Dwieli Road, Paola, at 3.45am.The man was driving a...

The Hal Far race circuit will be able to host four or five motorsports events annually, documents filed with the Environment and Resources Authority show.A Project Description Statement (PDS) was filed with the ERA detailing the circuit proposal. The...

New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women.It's an uncommon outcome for any pregnancy but women with COVID-19 face an elevated risk. Authorities believe vaccination can help pre...

Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri said that plans on when and how police officers will vote are the responsibility of the Electoral Commission, not the ministry.At the end of last month, police officers were informed that they would be forced to ...

Discussions are underway with the Malta Union of Teachers after on a collective agreement for Junior College lecturers which led to an industrial dispute."The collective agreement has to be sustainable; it has to be one with added value benefitting t...

MADRID (AP) — Spaniards removed their facemasks or stuffed them into their pockets for the first time in nearly two months after the country’s outdoor mask mandate was lifted Thursday. Italians face a similar treat Friday.Both countries h...

The recent Public Accounts Committee meetings are quickly becoming a bit of a farce.The committee is looking into a report drawn up by the National Audit Office about the awarding of the tender of Malta’s gas-fired power station to Electrogas.K...

European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli is expected to visit Malta to attend the Special Olympics Malta event which will take place between May 14 and May 17.The upcoming Special Olympics in Malta will seek to showcase the skills and abilitie...

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola visited the site of Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination and met with members of the Caruana Galizia family during her first official visit to the country since taking office.Speaking with The Ma...

Accepting the invitation of the President of the Republic of Malta, the civil authorities and the Catholic Church of the country, Pope Francis will make an Apostolic Journey to Malta from 2 to 3 April 2022, a statement by the Curia read."The Pope wil...

If you want to see dinosaurs running in the streets of Valletta, here's your chance.The trailer of the upcoming movie "Jurassic World Dominion" was released today, and it looks like the film is going to be a great adventure.The film, partly shot in M...

Four people died while positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, the health authorities said.Three were men, who were aged 62, 74 and 82 and one was a woman aged 92. The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic has now risen to 576.118 new Cov...

 The European Commission's winter forecast projects Malta to have the highest economic growth in the EU in 2022Malta's Real Gross Domestic Product is expected to grow by 6% this year, dropping to 5% growth next year."Malta is expected to reach p...

A light aircraft was forced into an emergency landing on Malta International Airport’s main runway this afternoon.Malta International Airport said in a statement that its Rescue and Firefighting Services Team was dispatched to the scene immedia...

The head of the World Health Organization insisted Wednesday that “COVID isn't finished with us,” appealing for more support to fight the pandemic after his agency reported that new infections fell but virus deaths rose worldwide over the...

Winter signing Dušan Vlahović scored late for defending champion Juventus to squeeze into the Italian Cup semifinals with a 2-1 win over Sassuolo on Thursday.The former Fiorentina striker did well to go past Mert Müldür and was ...

Diogo Jota is squeezing every moment out of his understudy role in the Liverpool attack.Even with Egypt striker Mohamed Salah back available after a month away at the African Cup of Nations, Jota still started and scored both goals in a 2-0 victory o...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna celebrated mass on the Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck at the Collegiate Church of St Paul's Shipwreck in Valletta.Archibishop Scicluna dedicated his sermon to explaining the kind of love that Malta should endorse, reflect...

An elderly woman was seriously injured in a traffic accident on Wednesday at 5pm, the police said in a statement.The accident occurred on Triq Misraħ il-Barrieri, Santa Venera. A 75-year-old woman from Birkirkara was hit by a Ford Ranger being d...

Bob Saget's death last month stemmed from an accidental blow to the head, his family said in a statement Wednesday.The comedian and “Full House” star was found dead Jan. 9 in a Florida hotel room. He'd performed in the area the night...

A large number of organisations came together last Sunday to commemorate the 1,971 people who are known to have died at sea or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean last year. There are probably many more people who perished while tryi...

John Dalli was charged in court on Wednesday with trading in influence and bribery in connection with the snus scandal, an issue that dates back to 2012 when he was an EU Commissioner.Dalli has pleaded not guilty to the charges.The bulk of the three-...

The government has no intention to harass anyone and wants to work to strengthen the diplomatic services, Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo said today.Diplomatic Service members have been instructed by the UHM Voice of the Workers not to use any means...

The Public Accounts Committee descended into a farce-like shouting match yet again, as Konrad Mizzi and the PN MPs on the committee butted heads throughout the two hour meeting.The committee is looking into a report drawn up by the National Audit Off...

A 25-year-old Rabat man, Luke John Milton, has been charged in connection with the abduction of Carlos Schembri last month.He was granted bail by Magistrate Charmaine Galea after his arraignment. Bail was secured by a deposit of €3,000 and a per...

A Bill presented in Parliament by the government aims to introduce cyberstalking and cyberbullying as specific offences in the Criminal Code.The Bill, tabled by Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis, seeks to protect those who fall victim to any type ...

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A 92-year-old woman is the latest person to die while positive for Covid-19, as health authorities reported 172 new cases of the virus.304 people have meanwhile recovered from the virus, taking the number of active cases down to 2,097.79 Covid-19 pat...

The European Commission said on Wednesday it has decided to refer Malta to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failure to comply with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.The Directive requires Member States to ensure that u...