The Parliamentary Secretary responsible for the Fisheries sector Alicia Bugeja Said received significant financial backing from three well-known companies in the fishing industry, financial declarations filed with the Electoral Commission show.Answer...

The waiting time for a non-urgent MRI and a non-urgent ultrasound at Mater Dei Hospital is of four months, Health Minister Chris Fearne said in Parliament on Tuesday.Fearne was answering a set of parliamentary questions posed by PN MP Ian Mario Vassa...

Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia blamed a last minute order for additional works by the Mosta Local Council for the delays in the completion of roadworks to one of the locality’s main roads.Answering a Parliamentary Question asked by PN MP Iva...

Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the 3-mon...

The Russian parliament gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that would allow the government to appoint new management of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.According to the state news agency Tass, the new...

The Labour Party pledged to invest €700 million in the environment over the next five years. The environment will be given priority in this legislature, it is said. In his speech explaining the government’s programme at the opening of Parl...

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade and the latest gruesome moment for a coun...

The delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs currently in Malta sees progress on the rule of law, but there are still points of concerns, Sophie In't Veld, the Chairperson of the Committee...

Only two of the 23 recommendations by the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) in its most recent evaluation report were satisfactorily implemented, or were dealt with in a satisfactory manner by Malta.GRECO published on Tuesday a com...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said that Malta will not put the rule of law on the back burner, as the country’s priorities must be kept at the same levels, serving as catalysts for a better attitude.Addressing the delegation of the European Parli...

We have as many massage parlours as we have pastizzi shops, said PN MP Graziella Attard Previ during Parliament on Tuesday as she appealed for better regulation on the former type of establishment. Attard Previ said that the high amount of massa...

Malta’s drivers paid a collective total of almost  €1 million in fines for using their mobile phones while they were driving last year, figures tabled in Parliament show. The figures were tabled in Parliament on Tuesday by Home A...

92 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday, as one Covid-19 patient passed away in the previous 24 hours.158 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,69...

The opposition will be forwarding its list of proposed witnesses for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigation into the NAO's Electrogas report to the PL's committee members, and the PAC will next week discuss this list.During the first sessi...

Candidates who contested under the Labour Party ticket blitzed their Nationalist Party counterparts when it came to spending on their 2022 general election campaign, data released by the Electoral Commission shows.An analysis conducted by The Malta I...

The Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) needs a better structure, parliamentary secretary Andy Ellul said during parliament on Tuesday.Replying to a question by PN MP Claudette Pace about what kind of reform needs to happen for ...

A biker who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in Gozo last week died in hospital on Monday evening, the police said.The crash, which occurred in Xewkija on 17 May, had involved a Yamaha 250 being ridden by a 63-year-old man from Xaghra...

A captured Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a civilian was sentenced by a Ukrainian court Monday to life in prison — the maximum — amid signs the Kremlin may, in turn, put on trial some of the fighters who surrendered at Mari...

DAVOS, Switzerland — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Russia can be reintegrated into the orbit of European nations if it finds its way back to “democracy, the rule of law, the respect for the international rules-ba...

PN MP Ivan Castillo is calling for locality wide CCTV coverage in St Paul's BayPosting on Facebook, Castillo said: "The situation is St Pauls Bay, Bugibba Qawra and Xemxija has residents concerned and distressed! This locality as a whole has the high...

Much has been done to limit plastic pollution in Malta.Through legislation, we have been tackling single-use plastics, although more can still be done.Rarely does one find plastic straws, with fast food restaurants now opting for ones made out of pap...

Joseph Bonnici, 41, was sentenced to 36 years in jail after admitting to killing his mother and sister in Ghaxaq three years ago.Bonnici admitted to the nine accusations against him and avoided a trial by jury.He admitted to killing Maria Lourdes Bon...

It’s now almost two centuries since the first package holiday was sold in Europe. For some, booking flights and 14 hotel nights in the same resort is still the most common way to travel.All-Inclusive packages, popularised in the latter half of ...

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola's delivered a speech to Israel's Knesset, and was heckled when speaking about peace and a two-state solution."In the past months, I have had to talk about war. Yet, both the basis and the ultimate ...

PN MP and lawyer Joe Giglio has said that discussions are currently underway with the government over police conduct certificates of individuals who have, among other things, served prison sentences, in order to begin recording the progress that they...

MIDI said that it remains committed to the development of Manoel Island in terms of the revised Outline Development Permit and will continue to work with the local council and other consultees who are prepared to engage in constructive dialogue to tr...

Keith Schembri was never charged in connection with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder because the only evidence police had was Yorgen Fenech’s statement, a senior investigator has testified.Superintendent Keith Arnaud was testifying in an o...

17 police officers are currently assigned to the Cyber Crime Unit within the Police Force and the Financial Crimes Investigations Department has a total of 93 assigned police officers, information tabled in Parliament reveals.Answering a parliamentar...

Steward Health Care Malta said that it is surprised by the Health Minister's statements in the Maltese Parliament supporting the current contractual terms of the hospitals concession, "which have been widely acknowledged by independent observers - bo...

Manchester City winning the Premier League title hardly comes as a shock. After all, this is a sixth league championship in 11 seasons for one of the world's richest clubs, placing it among the most dominant periods in the history of the English game...

Ageing forwards mixed with young players and a coach who had never won anything. AC Milan wasn’t expected to win the scudetto.Indeed, Stefano Pioli was almost fired and replaced by Ralf Rangnick two years ago, with Milan in advanced negotiation...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by disbarred lawyer Patrick Spiteri to a 2016 judgement that condemned him to return over €1.5 million to a former British solicitor who back in 1998 entrusted Spiteri with investing his money.The orig...

The Malta Sociological Association (MSA) has submitted its official feedback to the Gozo Regional Development Authority regarding the proposal for the Gozo rural airfield. The MSA noted that in a particular section,  the document ...

The Malta Independent journalists Neil Camilleri and Giuseppe Attard came under Russian artillery fire while accompanying volunteers delivering humanitarian aid near Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday afternoon.The journalists, who have been covering the wa...

1,452 soldiers and 153 officials make up Malta's Armed Forces, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has said.He was answering a parliamentary question made by PN MP Joe Giglio, where he was asked how many soldiers, officials and other roles there ar...

Sixty-seven new Covid-19 cases have been recorded in Malta on Monday, while one more death was registered.No details about the latest victim were given.The number of active cases is now 1,759.The Health Ministry has, since the day after the 2022 gene...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country has objected to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, called on Stockholm on Monday to take “concrete steps” that would alleviate Turkey’s security concerns.Tur...

A man was grievously injured after he was attacked by two persons in a Hamrun bar, the police said.The incident took place in St Joseph High Road, at 2am.The man, from Somalia and aged 54, was taken to hospital for treatment.Two other men have been a...

The recent news that residents in one of Balzan’s main arterial roads were left fuming and sleepless by roadworks which were carried out through the whole night until around 4am, angers many.Just imagine if this was happening on your street. Wh...

PN Whip Robert Cutajar is calling on the government to implement proposals put forth by the Nationalist Party, which sought to transform areas in Selmun into a National Park that can be enjoyed by all.In a Facebook post published by Cutajar on Friday...

A Ukrainian court sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison on Monday for killing a Ukrainian civilian, in the first war crimes trial held since Russia’s invasion.Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin was accused of shooting a Ukrainian civili...

Engineer Trustin Farrugia Cann was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) within the Ministry for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects. The appointment comes into effect today, Monday 23rd May 2022. Farrugia Cann is an elect...

Buoyed by a visit from a neighbor and ally, Ukrainians were digging in to defend the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, which came under heavy bombardment from Russian forces trying to take the industrial area known as the Donbas.Sievierodonetsk is the...

Russian armed forces seem to have targeted volunteers who were delivering food and medical supplies to civilians in villages close to the front line outside of Kharkiv in Ukraine, as explosions coming from either artillery or rockets fell near a vehi...

Infrastructure Malta awarded over €17 million through direct orders during the second half of 2021, information published in the Government Gazette reveals.The €17,266,156 was awarded through a total of 131 direct orders, with some costing ...

Bank of Valletta shareholders are going to be asked to approve a salary increase for the bank’s chairman and non-executive directors at an upcoming Annual General Meeting to be held in June.In a notice and circular to shareholders, sent ahead o...

The €700 million investment in the environment the government is promising over the next five years will not balance out the over-development and destruction of certain areas in Malta and Gozo, Astrid Vella, Flimkien Għal Ambjent Aħjar...

Thirty drivers were booked for over-speeding in 30 minutes this morning, the police said in a statement. One of them, who was driving a BMW, was caught driving at 130km/h in a 70km/h zone.The police said that police inspections were carried out in an...

Manchester City clinched a sixth Premier League title in 11 seasons on Sunday by scoring three times in five minutes to come from behind to beat Aston Villa 3-2 in the finale and hold off Liverpool's challenge.After starting the day in first place, C...

The city of Milan was swarming with a sea of celebrating red-and-black fans as AC Milan secured its first Serie A title in 11 years on Sunday with a 3-0 win at Sassuolo.Thousands of supporters in the team's colors had started gathering in Milan's Pia...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said that his work in the party is not finished and there is still a difficult journey ahead.He asked for a strong mandate from the general council, "to take hard and courageous decisions together."  The PN lost t...

Many people are diagnosed with cancer; some of them manage to survive while others do not have the same fate.Some might be lucky enough to be diagnosed very early on, while others start treatment late in the day and, at times, this is not enough.Jesm...

Newly-appointed parliamentary secretary for Reforms and Equality Rebecca Buttigieg said that there needs to be holistic discussions over what type of Parliament Malta truly needs.Buttigieg entered Parliament by virtue of a casual election held on the...

We’re not halfway through the year yet, but we already had more traffic fatalities than we registered in the whole of 2021.We have had 12 deaths on the road so far, apart from a long list of other accidents which led to serious injuries, with p...

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Ian Borg said that works are ongoing to implement the action plan agreed upon with the FATF, and that the work is being appreciated by the Council of Europe."In the last two years our country has undergone many ...

Max Verstappen reclaimed the Formula One points lead as the reigning world champion won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday for his third consecutive victory after Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari broke down while he was comfortably in front.Verstappen n...

Sixty-one new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Sunday, health authorities said.The number of active cases is now 1,835.The Health Ministry has, since the day after the 2022 general election at the end of March, stopped publishing daily bulletins on so...

The cost of a single ticket to cross between Malta and Gozo on a small airplane when the airstrip project is completed is set to cost between €25 and €35, the Gozo Regional Development Authority CEO Mario Borg told The Malta Independent on ...

PN MP Adrian Delia has called for immediate action from the authorities over loud music coming from party establishments during the night.In a Facebook post, Delia said that the noise coming from establishments in Rabat, was an "invasion of privacy a...

Naomi Cachia was one of the Labour Party candidates who made it to Parliament via the gender-corrective mechanism employed to have more women elected.She tells us that she loves reading, follows Manchester United, and has fond memories of her childho...

Six months have not even passed since the recreational cannabis law was enacted and a reputable organisation such as Caritas is already sounding the alarm.Children as young as nine are being exposed to the drug, the NGO’s director Anthony Gatt ...

With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate as a Moscow-backed separatist leader vowed they would face tribunals.Russia has declared its ...

Australia’s center-left opposition party toppled the conservative government after almost a decade in power, and Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese in his Saturday election victory speech promised sharper reductions in greenhouse gas emissio...

Residents and farmers from Mġarr addressed a press conference to express their anger at the appeal launched by Electrofix against the decision by the Planning Authority to refuse the company’s application to construct a sprawling solar far...

The Government will be providing financial assistance to newspaper publishers, as they currently face significant challenges due to the substantial increase in the price of paper.During a meeting held with Prime Minister Robert Abela at Auberge ...

Two men were grievously injured in an accident involving three cars in Floriana, the police said.The accident took place in Great Siege Road at 11.15am.It involved a Toyota Aygo driven by a 34-year-old woman of Pieta, a Toyota Vitz driven by a 61-yea...

Seventy-three new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Saturday, while the number of active cases has dropped to below 2,000, statistics published by the health authorities show.The last time the number of active cases was below 2,000 was on 17 March.One ...

Valletta: Chemimart City Gate Pharmacy, City Gate; Marsa: Trinity Pharmacy, 32 Marsa  Road; Qormi: Anici Pharmacy, Anici Street; Birkirkara (Fleur-de-Lys): Marrit Pharmacy, 1st of May Street; Pieta: St Anthony Pharmacy, 56, St Joseph Street; St ...

 In what would be its biggest victory yet in the war with Ukraine, Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilian...

Climate change is, rightly, at the top of many agendas at the moment.  As the world gets hotter and hotter – something which Malta will no doubt be reminded about again over the coming summer – the need for solutions becomes greater....

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) will be bringing War Graves Week to Malta and offering free tours from 21st until 27th May 2022.The initiative is aimed at encouraging people from the local community to discover the World War h...

KYIV, Ukraine -- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy devoted his nightly video address to Ukraine’s demand that Russia be held financially responsible for the damage its forces are inflicting on Ukraine.Just on Friday, he noted, the Russian army fire...

Foreign Minister Ian Borg said that more than ever before, in this unprecedented time we are living in, we must ensure that our peoples have the protection, respect and guarantee of fundamental human rights as enshrined in the European Conventio...

Over the past months, the Planning Authority (PA) said it has been at the forefront aiding all local clubs and każini, to ensure they survive the financial difficulties incurred during the pandemic and emerge ready to continue to carry out their...

ROME (AP) — Fiorentina edged Atalanta for Serie A’s final berth in Europe with a 2-0 win over Juventus on Saturday.With goals from Alfred Duncan and Nicolás González, Fiorentina claimed seventh place and a Europa Conference ...

Charles Leclerc’s perfect weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix was almost ruined when his Ferrari spun to a stop late in qualifying.Instead of panicking, Leclerc showed championship-caliber cool.He got his car back to the garage for a new set of t...

Australia’s prime minister conceded defeat after an election Saturday that could deliver a minority government.Scott Morrison acted quickly despite millions of votes yet to be counted because an Australian prime minister must attended a Tokyo s...

Between Monday and Wednesday next week, six MEPs of the Civil Liberties Committee will assess progress in the investigations, trials, and reforms that followed the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia during a visit to Malta.Two and a half years after th...

A dead carcass of a young turtle has been recovered in Maltese waters by the Armed Forces of Malta, with the turtle having died likely due to the ingestion of balloons.Nature Trust – FEE Malta announced the sad news in a statement, appealing ag...

Residents in one of Balzan’s main arterial roads were left fuming and sleepless by roadworks which were carried out through the whole night until around 4am.The works, which appeared to entail trenching and resurfacing, were carried out in Triq...

European and American health authorities have identified a number of monkeypox cases in recent days, mostly in young men. It's a surprising outbreak of a disease that rarely appears outside Africa.Health officials around the world are keeping watch f...

The body of Lassana Cisse will finally be returning home, to the Ivory Coast, for burial.Cissa was 42 when he was murdered in cold blood as he walked home on 6 April 2019.  Two soldiers, Francesco Fenech and Lorin Scicluna, stand charged with hi...

69 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday.136 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 2,015.1,235 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equat...

A 43-year-old man from Victoria, Gozo was arrested during a police operation by the Anti-Drug Squad after he was found with drugs and firearms.After receiving information about the possibility of drug trafficking during some Carnival activities in Go...

A man was grievously injured when he was attacked by an unknown person in St Julian’s early on Friday, the police said.The attack took place in St George’s Road at 1.30am.The police said that a French man, aged 26, by attacked by another ...

Earlier this week, the European Parliament's Industry Committee approved a report on the Digital Decade, a report which MEP Cutajar negotiated on behalf of the Socialists and Democrats.In this regard, MEP Cutajar said that she is truly honoured for t...

The fate of hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after holding out against punishing attacks on Mariupol’s steel factory hung in the balance Thursday, amid international fears that the Russians may take reprisals against the prisoners...

Political party financing is a subject which many have had a bone to pick with. It has long been said that the two major political parties are far too beholden to the people who donate money to them and prop up their campaign.  That in itself is...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the United States for the $40 billion aid package, which got final congressional approval on Thursday.“This is a demonstration of strong leadership and a necessary contributi...

When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, elderly and infirm people started calling Galina and her husband Sergey to help them by taking them food, medicines and other supplies. Within a few days, the Kharkiv couple had set up a volunteer NGO that ...

The police said that a man who was wanted for a court appearance has been found.On Friday, the police issued a call for public assistance in search of the man Christian Mifsud?He is wanted by order of the Magistrate after failing to appear for court ...

The European Commission today decided to refer Malta to the Court of Justice of the European Union for taxing used cars imported from other Member States more heavily than used cars purchased on the Maltese market, a commission statement said.In...

Minister for the Economy, European Funds and Lands, Silvio Schembri announced six different Artificial Intelligence projects aimed at making our lives easier.These six projects were set out in the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and are to ...

85 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Thursday.151 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 2,082.1,346 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equ...

In 2021, foreign students attending English language courses at local licensed English Language Teaching (ELT) schools numbered 27,853, equivalent to an increase of 68.9 per cent over 2020, the NSO said Thursday.In 2020, the number had drastically de...

Over the past few years, business leaders have been looking forward to a time when consumer behaviour would return to some kind of normality. Just when it looked like we might be reaching that moment, events taking place around the world are reshapin...

Vangelis, the Greece-born electronic composer who wrote the Academy Award-winning score for the film "Chariots of Fire" and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, has died. He was 79.Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis an...

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights Anton Refalo, together with Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Animal Rights Alicia Bugeja Said, launched a public consultation on the preparation of a National Animal Welfare ...

When Dominic Calvert-Lewin headed the ball into the net, Everton fans were ready to start celebrating their team's Premier League status being preserved.A combination of astonishment and relief sent supporters flooding onto the Goodison Park field on...