Chris Scicluna, more known as part of the Chris and Moira duo – has died, his wife has said.He was 62."With a shattered and a broken heart we say goodbye to my beloved husband.. CHRIS", Moira has written on Facebook."Father to our daughter Mich...

Moviment Graffitti has filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Planning Authority’s (PA) FOI Officer to demand access to all electronic communication between the PA’s CEO Martin Saliba, all members of its Executive Council, an...

Convicted bank robber Darren Debono told a court this afternoon that he would not testify about his accomplices, despite benefiting from a plea deal over the 2010 HSBC heist, saying he feared for his son’s safety.Magistrate Monica Vella ordered...

The Labour Party often boasts of having been the party to set up the Office of the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life. And Robert Abela has often said that he is a PM who takes decisions, who can make heads roll when required, as seen in the c...

The route favoured by the organisers of the Malta Marathon was “not compliant with today’s realities”, Transport Malta chairman Joe Bugeja said on Thursday at a press conference where the marathon’s replacement – a chari...

Quarantine for primary and secondary contacts of positive cases could be removed as from 7 March, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne has announced.Fearne said that, as from 21 February, quarantine for primary contacts in the same household will be re...

Robert Abela’s government is a tool in the hands of criminals and a threat to the Maltese public’s security, said the Nationalist Party in a statement on Thursday, following the news of the re-arrest of convicted bank robber Darren Debono...

The NGO Repubblika has called for the resignation of Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg following the re-arrest of convicted bank robber Darren Debono, known as ‘it-Topo’, after he refused to answer questions about his accomplices in the...

No Covid-19 related deaths were reported for the first time in a month, statistics issued by the health authorities show.The last time no deaths were reported was on Monday, 17 January.It is only the third time this year that no deaths related to Cov...

We have lost the best people from the disciplined forces, and this situation needs to be addressed, PN MP Beppe Fenech Adami said today.The PN last week announced that should it be elected to government, it would allow members of the disciplined forc...

A former soldier dismissed after a video emerged of him making fun of the army had faced over 20 disciplinary charges during his military career, Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi has testified.Godwin Schembri, who was a bombardier, had faced discipl...

After dropping out of the Champions League, Barcelona now faces a difficult task just to qualify for the round of 16 in the Europa League.In its first appearance in the second-tier European competition in nearly two decades, the Catalan club was held...

Sports development in Malta will receive a boost as all proposed sports infrastructural projects will be exempt from needing to pay the Planning Authority’s (PA) Development Planning Fee (DPF) and an Environment Fee.This was announced by Minist...

Inflation is expected to rise to 2.7% in 2022, up from 0.7% in 2021, the Central Bank of Malta said in its Outlook for the Maltese Economy 2021-2024.This will largely reflect the impact of import price pressures on all subcomponents of inflation exce...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne provided details on refunds for in-vitro fertilisation medications during a press conference on Thursday.Prime Minister Robert Abela has announced on Sunday that the government will be refund...

British authorities will offer a coronavirus vaccine to almost six million children from age 5 to 11, officials said Wednesday.The government said young children will be offered a low-dose COVID-19 shot on a “non-urgent” basis beginning i...

VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government said Wednesday that it plans to end most of the country's COVID-19 restrictions on March 5, though wearing masks will remain obligatory in some places.Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced the decision at a ne...

The Nationalist Party has often been accused of changing its mind quickly. The Labour Party has been very much in the forefront in pointing out times when the PN says one thing one day, and then says the opposite the next or else puts forward a diffe...

The priest was beloved by his parishioners — yet for years he made a one-word ritual mistake, repeatedly, that has caused confusion and anxiety for thousands of Catholics in the Phoenix area now worrying that they were improperly baptized.Under...

The Nationalist Party, if elected to government, plans to work together with the Commission on Aging to conduct research that will lead to a better inclusion of elderly LGBT people in the community. The aim of the research is to help identify recomme...

A woman was grievously injured after she lost control of the car she was driving and it overturned, the police said.The accident took place in Gharb Road, Ghard, on Wednesday at 11.30pm.The woman, aged 31, of Zebbug, Gozo, was taken to Gozo General H...

An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen from a shop in Paola on Wednesday evening, the police said.A hooded man armed with a knife entered the shop, in De Paule Square, at 10pm, demanding money from the cashier, a 50-year-old woman.He then made off ...

Alleged kidnapper Christian Borg used two individuals inside LESA and Transport Malta to help erase around €3million in traffic fines which a car hire company which he owned had against it, PN MP Jason Azzopardi claimed in Parliament on Wednesda...

A motorcycle rider died on Triq Aldo Moro in Marsa this morning, after metal objects being carried by a truck fell over him as the vehicle overturned.The victim is a 28-year-old man from Nepal who resides in Msida.  He was named by TVM as Ajay S...

The visit by Pope Francis in April could be one of the last official appointments for Archbishop Charles Scicluna before he is given a top appointment at the Vatican.In January, The Malta Independent had reported that the possible promotion of Sciclu...

An organising committee with the participation of Transport Malta and Sport Malta has begun meeting to organise a marathon on 6 March, 2022, the Transport and Sports ministries said in a statement.The marathon will be called: TRAN|SPORT MALTA CHARITY...

Although economic activity is slowly recovering, many enterprises are experiencing cash flow problems as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic PN MP Claudio Grech said during a press conference on Wednesday. Referring to the proposal announced by PN...

An 86-year-old woman has died while positive for Covid-19, as 117 new cases of the virus were reported on Wednesday.301 people have also recovered from the virus, taking the number of active cases down to 1,380.41 patients are currently being treated...

Jason Micallef, who is the Executive Chairman at One Productions, has categorically denied that anyone ordered a ONE news drone to capture footage of Opposition Leader Bernard Grech's private residence.The drone allegations began when Prime Minister ...

Nationalist MP Joe Ellis is abusing of his parliamentary privilege and his position in the highest institution for the benefit of his companies, revealed as such through the parliamentary questions he has been making in Parliament, Gozo Minister Clin...

The United States Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried has expressed her appreciation at the efforts of the Maltese Government on the implementation of the action plan of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)...

When a breakthrough is proving elusive, Liverpool can still prosper from a set piece.After 75 minutes of caution — even tedium — in the Champions League at Inter Milan, Andy Robertson swung in a corner that was met at the near post by Rob...

Kingsley Coman scored late to salvage a 1-1 draw for Bayern Munich at Salzburg on Wednesday in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 meeting.Coman, who scored Bayern’s winner in the 2020 final, equalized in the last minute to prev...

Guests at the Corinthia Palace Hotel in Attard were evacuated for some time after a fire broke out on Wednesday morning.Civil Protection Department personnel were on site to control the blaze, which developed at the sauna of the hotel.The blaze was p...

As excavation works are nearing completion, Infrastructure Malta is entering a new stage of the Mrieħel Underpass Project, where workers are now starting to build the tunnel walls, Minister Ian Borg announced during a press conference where ongo...

The European Union's highest court ruled on Wednesday that the 27-nation bloc can link financial backing for member states to respect for rule of law, and that a challenge by Hungary and Poland should be dismissed.The right-wing governments of both n...

The Marsascala local council has welcomed the news that the Zonqor point land that was earmarked for the American University of Malta will be given back to the people.A stretch of undeveloped land at Żonqor Point which was handed over to the Ame...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is lifting COVID-19 restrictions on access for the unvaccinated to bars, restaurants and other venues following a leveling off of new coronavirus cases in recent days that has eased the pressure on the he...

Benevolence toward fans one day. Making money off them the next day.Champions League organizer UEFA faced criticism on Tuesday for monetizing supporter engagement by partnering with a company that sells fan tokens through largely unregulated cryptocu...

COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy can protect babies after they're born and lead to fewer hospitalized infants, a U.S. government study released Tuesday suggested.The study is the first to show potential benefits to infants born to people who receiv...

As at the end of June 2021, the stock position of Foreign Direct Investment in Malta stood at €200.2 billion, while Direct Investment abroad amounted to €58.5 billion, the NSO said today. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Malta Foreign dir...

There's a Maltese saying which, literally translated, says that it's better to experience the January cold than to have sunny days which are not warm.And this is what exactle happened this January, according to the Met Office.A colder-than-average Ja...

Back in 2015, the government – headed by the Prime Minister at the time Joseph Muscat – announced the American University of Malta deal, in what was perhaps one of the most environmentally controversial agreements of the Muscat administra...

MEPs today voted for a ban on "golden passports" and "golden visas", giving yet another blow to Malta on the international stage.Malta is one of three EU states that offers the sale of passports (citizenship by investment) to citizens outside the EU,...

Deputy Attorney General Philip Galea Farrugia told a court that other parties, besides those already charged, were probably involved in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.Galea Farrugia was making submissions before three judges presidin...

Former government minister Konrad Mizzi faced his latest Public Accounts Committee grilling on Tuesday, with the decision to adopt floating storage for the gas needed for the power station and delays to the construction and operation of the power sta...

  The tensions between Malta and the European Union are at “an all-time high” in spite of the election of PN MEP Roberta Metsola as president of the European Parliament, eureporter.co says.EU Reporter is a Brussels-bas...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Tuesday that the government will be transparent on the renegotiation of the AUM concession and there will be no “side deals.”On Monday, Abela announced that the government will be taking back land in Zo...

The Malta Marathon Organising Committee (MMOC) has announced that the 2022 Malta Marathon has been cancelled."Following today's meeting, Transport Malta reiterated that the Malta Marathon must adopt the TM proposed route in lieu of the Malta Marathon...

The government condemns all forms of physical and psychological violence irrespective of the person's gender or sex, Equality Minister Owen Bonnici said in reaction to criticism the government has received over the femicide bill.Bonnici, speaking in ...

What Labour deputy leader Chris Fearne said regarding the Marsascala Yacht Marina Project matches what I said months ago, Prime Minister Abela said on Tuesday.On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne told Times of Malta how he believes that the ...

After teammate Lionel Messi missed a penalty, Kylian Mbappe saved his team again by scoring a brilliant solo goal deep into stoppage time as Paris Saint-Germain beat Real Madrid 1-0 in their Champions League last-16 match on Tuesday.Mbappe has rescue...

Manchester City was so good in the Champions League on Tuesday that even the fans of its opponents couldn’t help but applaud.When Phil Foden side-footed home the third of City’s four first-half goals in a 5-0 win over Sporting in the last...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Tuesday that he was not aware that a drone had been sent to film PN Leader Bernard Grech’s home.He told journalists that any politician’s family life should be kept totally separate from the political r...

This time, Manchester United held on to its lead.Cristiano Ronaldo ended his six-game goal drought by lashing in a 51st-minute goal to set United on its way to a 2-0 win over Brighton that moved the team into fourth place in the Premier League on Tue...

Steward Malta has unexpectedly ceded a case it had filed against one of the investors in the Vitals hospitals deal.The abrupt decision means an English court judgement in the favour of investor Ambrish Gupta will be upheld. It was previously reported...

Opposition leader Bernard Grech has welcomed Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne's position against the proposed Marsascala yacht marina and has called for him to use his power to take a stand against the project.The Nationalist party has been clear, ...

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 public consultation on the draft ‘Guidelines for Good Forestation Practices for the Maltese Islands’ has been launched by the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) and the Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning.Ad...

A 70-year-old woman has died while positive for Covid-19, as health authorities reported 122 new cases of the virus on Tuesday.184 people meanwhile have recovered, taking the number of active cases down to 1,565.52 patients are currently receiving tr...

The NGO Repubblika has claimed that recent stories involving Prime Minister Robert Abela and one of his clients are only the tip of the iceberg of a “career of illegitimate profits”, and that more stories will emerge of how Abela became a...

We can change the present mentality of 'winner takes all,' independent candidate Arnold Cassola said while announcing his candidacy for the general election."There should be a balance, we need to adopt a 'give and take' mentality" he said.Last week, ...

Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) has introduced a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system at the highly-specialised Orthotics and Prosthetics Unit (OPU) at St. Luke’s Hospital. The new digital solution provides patient-centric re...

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...

With an investment of €12.5 million, Infrastructure Malta has carried out works ranging from rebuilding to repairs on 100 rural roads in 2021, the Transport Ministry said on Tuesday.This was announced by Minister for Transport, Infrastructure an...

During 2020, the total amount of generated waste decreased by 19.8 per cent over 2019, the National Statistics Office said. The total generation of solid waste in Malta during the year amounted to 2.5 million tonnes.Hazardous waste increased by 1.3 p...

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...

A biker was grievously injured in an accident on the Coast Road this morning, the police said.The accident took place at 8.15 on what is officially known as Salina Street, Naxxar.It involved a Hyosong bike, ridden by a 24-year-old man of St Paul&rsqu...

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...

The head of the World Health Organization's Europe office said Tuesday that health officials are turning their attention to growing rates of COVID-19 infection in Eastern Europe, where six countries — including Russia and Ukraine — have s...

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...