The Gozo Chamber of Advocates said Justice Minister Jonathan Attard has promised to address shortcomings being faced at the Gozo law courts.The pledge was made on Friday in a meeting the chamber had with the minister, a chamber statement said.In a pr...

An Israeli medical cannabis company, Panaxia, has announced a €6 million investment and is set to deepen its connection with Malta as it plans a further expansion to its local production plant – thus increasing its capital investment....

Air Malta workers are being used, yet again, as a political football, ADPD – The Green Party Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo said Saturday. Whereas before the general election Air Malta workers were promised employment on the same terms and condit...

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic on Friday to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the “evil” of Canada’s residential schools, wrapping up his week-long “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada with a dram...

Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus in...

Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured after the fall of Mariupol, the city where troops famousl...

Malta’s Public Service has been certified first in Europe in terms of eGovernment services. Malta obtained first place with an average score of 96%, followed by Estonia (90%) and Luxembourg (87%), as emerged from the ‘eGovernment Benchmar...

A year has now passed since the public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s death found that the state was responsible for creating an environment and culture of impunity which ultimately led to her murder.With that conclusion, the public inqu...

The Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture is again offering an opportunity for amateur fishermen to fish for lampuki.This was announced by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights Anton Refalo, together with the Parliamentary Secre...

The special edition of the Maltese International Food Festival is set to be held in Xewking square, Minister for Gozo Clint Camilleri said.The festival is to take place between Friday 5 and Saturday 6 August. These will be two nights of culinary cele...

The work on the restoration project of the convent of St Augustine is nearing its end as the Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds Chris Bonett went on site.Fondazzjoni Soċjo-Kulturali Ambjentali Augustina (FSKAA) is managing the works on t...

The Siggiewi local council has cried foul at a raft of illegal works being carried out on the site of a quarry in the locality’s rural area.In a complaint filed with the Planning Authority, the local council produced images showing a list of br...

Alfred and George Degiorgio gave a rare insight into the conditions of the ‘punishment division’ at Corradino Correctional Facility in a human rights case over their repeated denial of bail.The two brothers testified on Friday in a human ...

Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency shot up to another record in July, pushed by higher energy prices driven partly by Russia's war in Ukraine, but the economy still managed some meager growth.Annual inflation i...

The health authorities reported 88 new Covid-19 cases on Friday.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,719 of whom 109,363 recovered.The total number of deaths stands at 792 with no new deaths being report...

A man was critically injured on Thursday evening after he was hit by a car, the police said.The accident took place in Valley Road, Qormi, at 8.15pm.The man, aged 59, of Qormi, was hit by a Toyota Vitz driven by a 41-year-old woman resident in Birkir...

There is no political will to address the challenges identified by the Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry, Repubblika President Robert Aquilina said on Friday.Addressing a press conference in front of the Auberge de Castille in Valletta, Aquilina ...

Beyond a 'decent' facade, the Msida police station is a “disgrace of a workplace fit for no one,” the Malta Police Union said on Friday.The union, which had previously released photos of the St Julian’s and Valletta police stations,...

Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in what Ukraine said was revenge for standing up to the Kremlin.Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announce...

29 July 2022 marks the first anniversary since the publication of the report of the board of inquiry appointed disheartenedly by former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to investigate into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.It also marks one who...

A couple of weeks ago, Prime Minister Robert Abela said he wants to see the courts of law work in a more efficient and friendly manner. This week, rule of law NGO Repubblika said that a case it has filed in the courts in a bid to try to force the pol...

An e-scooter rider was grievously injured in a hit-and-run accident in Msida early on Friday, the police said.The accident happened in Dun Karm Psaila Road, Msida, just after midnight.The rider, a Colombian man aged 32 of St Paul’s Bay was invo...

SLIEMA FRANK SALT........... 12SIRENS MECCA MARINE...... 3(1-0), (3-1), (3-0), (5-2) Following last week’s dramatic victory against Neptunes, Sliema Frank Salt registered their fourth consecutive win, this time cruising past Sirens Mecca M...

The National Statistics Office showed that the Government’s Consolidated Fund has reported a deficit of €462.6 million in June 2022, with the Recurrent Revenue amounting to €2,566.2 million in the first half of 2022. This was 17.2% hi...

The international media NGO Article 19 has expressed its concern that the government’s anti-SLAPP legislative proposals will not be “comprehensive enough” to address the challenges which journalists face when exercising their right ...

Couriers who work with Bolt Food will strike as from Friday as a stand-off develops between them and the company over poor earnings and working conditions.Around 300 couriers work for the company, and the action is expected to be taken by most of the...

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation and the international NGO Article 19 have lamented the lack of “concrete action” in implementing the recommendations set out in the public inquiry looking into the journalist’s murder.However, t...

Bank of Valletta Group today announced the financial results for the first six months of 2022, which the bank said highlighted an encouraging commercial performance in the bank’s core banking activities. This was driven by volume growth, solid ...

The court of Criminal Appeal, presided by Mr. Justice Giovanni Grixti, has rejected two appeals filed by murderer Nizar el Gadi, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015, having been convicted of the murder of his ex-wife, lawyer Margaret Mifsu...

It was a historic night for Maltese football as three Maltese clubs made it through to the next round of the Conference League.Commanding performance puts Hibernians in third roundLevadia         1Hibernians&nb...

The health authorities reported 98 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, with three patients having passed away while positive for the virus.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,631 of whom 109,046 recovered.T...

The San Giljan Aquatic Sports Club has become the latest sports team on the island to be sponsored by Gozitan construction magnate Joseph Portelli, through his business J Portelli Projects.In a statement, the club said that J Portelli Projects will b...

The Office of the President has filed a police report regarding a fake article which has been spreading on the internet in recent days.The article is the same one which The Malta Independent filed a report about two days ago, on the basis that the ar...

The Criminal Court has changed the punishment meted out last year to the two architects found guilty of causing the death of Miriam Pace.Pace died in the rubble of her Santa Venera home, which collapsed in March 2020 as a result of construction works...

According to opposition leader Bernard Grech on Thursday, President George Vella's choice to allow his substitute, Frank Bezzina, to sign the IVF reform into law rendered the parliament impotent.The opposition leader was making reference to Vella's h...

2.34 million people passed through the Malta International Airport in the first half of this year, which was almost equal to a full year of passenger traffic in 2021, Airport CEO Alan Borg said during a press conference on Thursday.He added that alth...

Former Enemalta chairman Charles Mangion said he was not aware of the financial struggles that Gasol had when he ratified the decision to award the Electrogas consortium the power station contract.Mangion was testifying before the Public Accounts Com...

Moviment Graffitti has sent its second letter to five Ministers – those of tourism, of Gozo, of the environment, of lands, and of planning – regarding the situation in Comino, in particular the Blue Lagoon. In the letter, we noted that we...

An elderly man died in Żabbar this morning, after falling down some stairs, the police said in a statement.The accident occurred in the man's residence at 4am on Triq ix-Xgħajra. A medical team certified the 75-year-old as dead on site. Mag...

The number of electric and hybrid vehicles has increased, but the total number of such vehicles in Malta remains below 10,000, data published by the National Statistics Office shows. Electric and plug-in hybrid motor vehicles accounted for 2.3% of th...

A bill amending laws relating to IVF has been signed into law by Acting President Frank Bezzina after President George Vella went abroad on Wednesday.Vella and his wife travelled to the United Kingdom on a four-day visit on Wednesday where ...

Russian forces on Thursday launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine's Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that haven't been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate an occupied region in the country's south.Kyi...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing th...

It took them quite a while to react, but it’s better late than never.A number of lecturers at the University of Malta who teach Maltese, English and mathematics a few days ago expressed their concern that the entry requirements for the Junior C...

Four-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel will retire at the end of the season to spend more time with his family, the German driver said Thursday.Vettel won the F1 title from 2010-13 with the Red Bull team. His last race victory came with Ferr...

A biker and his pillion rider were injured after a crash in St Julian’s on Wednesday afternoon, the police said.The accident took place in Borg Olivier Street at 5.30pm.The police said the biker and rider, an Italian man and woman aged 56 and r...

A magistrate has rejected Repubblika’s request to move a legal challenge it has filed against the Police Commissioner to a closer date. The civil society NGO said Wednesday that Magistrate Nadine Lia has scheduled the first sitting in the legal...

Police officers have given a court their account of the arrest of a wanted man who led police on a dramatic car chase from Hamrun to Marsa last week, detailing how the suspect’s vehicle drove on after colliding with a motorcycle, stop...

Pope Francis arrived in Quebec on Wednesday at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only moving away from religion but explicitly rejecting it, embracing secularization long after their forebears built their identity on the rock ...

A homeless man has been remanded in custody after he pleaded not guilty to charges relating to harassing two 15-year-old girls.Beyene Fessahatsion Weldeabzghi, 31, from Eritrea was arraigned before magistrate Nadine Lia on Wednesday afternoon, accuse...

The man who was stabbed to death in Marsa on Monday has been identified as a 21-year-old Egyptian national, the police said. No further details were given, as per police protocol. A Sudanese man has been charged over the murder. The murder happened a...

The Malta Union of Teachers have declared a trade dispute with the Dominican Order in Malta over the dismissal of headmaster of St Albert the Great College Mario Mallia.In a press conference in front of the school in Valletta on Wednesday morning, Pr...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna has offered to act as mediator between ex-headmaster of St Albert the Great College Mario Mallia and rector of the school Friar Aaron Zahra.Spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Malta told Newsbook, the Church’s media ...

The health authorities reported 97 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, with two patients having passed away while positive for the virus.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,533 of whom 108,677 recovered.Th...

The traffic gridlock in the Pieta area has continued for the third day running as Infrastructure Malta continues its road works in one of the major links towards the capital city.Work started Monday on parts of the northbound carriageway of Independe...

Ġnien Victor Calvagna in Mosta, a space of 4,000 m2 that has been returned to the public, was officially inaugurated by Minister for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli on Wednesday.This space has been transformed into a garden t...

SAN ĠILJAN JP PROJECTS.... 11SIRENS MECCA MARINE....... 7(3-2), (3-2), (1-1), (4-2) San Ġiljan JP Projects stayed in the hunt for their seventh Premier Division knock-out in the last eight years. They defeated Sirens Mecca Marine in an...

The St Albert the Great College board and rector on Wednesday categorically denied the “unfounded allegations that have been circulating publicly, and were also published by certain media outlets, regarding the termination of employment of Mr M...

An Albanian worker was grievously injured on Wednesday after he fell and hit his head while working on a scaffold. The accident took place at the Bulebel Industrial Estate at around 9am, the police said. The casualty, 36, lives in St Paul’s Bay...

The government is acting as a “bully” in the Air Malta situation, the Nationalist Party said on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference, the PN’s spokesperson for maritime affairs and employment, Ivan Castillo, referred to the con...

Former Education Minister Evarist Bartolo said that the dismissal of Mario Mallia from headmaster of St Albert the Great College “because he wanted to set up a social cooperative to enable disabled people to run the school’s canteen&rdquo...

Journalism as a profession needs to be put under a better spotlight, according to Dr Ian Attard, MCAST BA(Hons) Creative Media Production and BA(Hons) Journalism senior lecturer and subject coordinator Speaking about the relevance and the future deve...

The Department for Inclusion and Access to Learning within the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta expressed its solidarity with Mr Mario Mallia following “his outrageous dismissal from St Albert The Great College”.In a statem...

Last Monday, a guide was overheard telling a group of tourists in Valletta that the tour they had booked for – and presumably paid for handsomely – was going to be delayed. The reason for this was that another group of tourists who was to...

President George Vella, accompanied by Mrs Miriam Vella, left Malta early this morning for the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony which will be held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, the Department of Information said Wednesday.Vella's departure ...

Instead of understanding the inclusivity initiatives undertaken by administration at the St Albert the Great College, an individual from the Curia filed a complaint about them which led to the school board putting them to a stop, the school’s n...

Malta has secured an exemption from a European Commission’s regulation that introduces mandatory reductions of 15% for gas use by member states in case of security of supply emergencies. During an extraordinary meeting of the Energy Ministers t...

Mario Mallia, the headmaster at St. Albert the Great College in Valletta, has been dismissed from his post, The Malta Independent can confirm.Mallia held the post of headmaster for 16 years. The school is a Church school run by the Dominican Province...

65-year-old Marsa resident, Mario Degiorgio, brother of Alfred and George Degiorgio, who are indicted over the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, was arraigned in court this morning, accused of extortion and money laundering offences.Police inspector ...

A fault in the radiotherapy machine at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre has forced the government to send cancer patients to a Rome hospital to continue their treatment.Seven of the more urgent cases will be transported to the Italian capital on Tues...

The PN is going to present once more its anti-corruption bill which form part of the recommendations of the Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said at a press conference on Tuesday.The bill will be presented after ...

Lawyers acting on behalf of Zenith Finance and its directors have filed Constitutional proceedings, requesting compensation for damages they claim to have suffered as a result of the protracted compilation of evidence against them.They attributed the...

Malta’s gender corrective mechanism should be revisited before the next general election, an international election monitoring board has said.An international monitoring board from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ...

Two reporters who work with the Labour Party’s media arm ONE TV have each received €9,750 in the form of direct orders from the government, The Malta Independent can reveal.Samuel Lucas and Trischia Falzon received €9,750 each in dire...

In 2021, the total number of inbound and domestic tourists who visited the Gozo and Comino region amounted to 435,907, the NSO said Tuesday. Domestic tourists accounted for 83.8 per cent of total tourism demand within this region. The total number of...

In what is understood to be a first for Malta, three judges making up the Constitutional Court have recused themselves from presiding over the retrial of a constitutional case filed by disbarred former lawyer Patrick Spiteri, as two of them had deliv...

The health authorities reported 141 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, with one patient having passed away while positive for the virus.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,436 of whom 108,171 recovered.The ...

The Malta Independent website has been a victim of spoofing, and a report has been filed with the police for an investigation.In the past hours this office has received information from several readers that their social media feeds included a story w...

Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society...

European Union nations struggled Monday to find common ground on how to wean the bloc off its reliance on Russian natural gas, seeking to appease wary, stressed consumers at home while upholding unity as Moscow turns down the tap.Russian Preside...

We have said it before, and we will say it again: Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg is out of her depth and must go, now. In the latest of a long serious of failures by the office she leads (as well as by the police), it emerged yesterday that a fo...

Just over 27% of Nationalist Party councillors have voted at the end of the second early session of voting for the election of the party’s deputy leader.On Saturday, 10.5% had voted. This moved up to 27.1% in the second round of early voting he...

Two police officers have appeared in court on Monday morning charged over a man’s death whilst in police custody at the police’s Floriana headquarters.28-year-old Stacy Gatt from Żebbuġ and Karl Nikolai Vella Cassia, 35, from Ra...

A former Pilatus Bank official was allowed to leave the country despite being subject to an arrest warrant due to inaction from both the Attorney General and the police, Repubblika claimed on Monday morning.Repubblika President Robert Aquilina filed ...

The roads agency said Monday that the current phase of works that caused widespread traffic will be completed by the end of the week and the entire project will be finished before 11 August.Roadworks being carried out on the main carriageway between ...

A 28-year-old Sudanese man has been charged over the fatal stabbing of man in Marsa on Sunday.Al Mahy Ezzo Saeed, from Darfur, pleaded not guilty to homicide on Monday afternoon. Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit remanded him in custody.The court hea...

Ugandans protesting the rapidly rising cost of living barricaded streets in the eastern city of Jinja, a major center on the busy highway to the country's border with Kenya.Police tried to remove molten tires from the middle of the road, according to...

It is the taxpayer who is paying for the Vitals Global Healthcare scandal, as millions of the public’s money have been stolen, the PN said on Monday in reaction to the latest story exposing dealings around the hospitals deal.The PN’s stat...

The health authorities reported 78 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, with one patient having passed away while positive for the virus.Figures released show that the total number of cases registered in Malta is now 112,295 of whom 107,765 recovered.The to...

The magistrate presiding over what can only be described as the seemingly never-ending compilation of evidence against former Pilatus Bank Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) Claude Anne Sant Fournier, has lambasted prosecutors for failing to e...

Technical faults in the linear accelerators of the Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Hospital, which developed over the weekend, led to the temporary suspension of the radiotherapy service at the Mater Dei Hospital. In a press statement published on Mon...

Next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in Britain, organizers announced Monday, after concluding it is too risky to hold the much-beloved pop extravaganza in the designated host country, Ukraine.The U.K. said the 2023 event would be...

Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar has been appointed as a board member of the Council for Children, according to an announcement published in the Government Gazette.The Council, which falls under the ministerial remit of Minister for Social Policy and Child...

Russia's top diplomat said Moscow’s overarching goal is to topple the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, making Russian war aims more explicit as its forces keep pummelling Ukraine with artillery barrages and air strikes.The...

Roadworks being carried out on the main carriageway between Pieta and Floriana led to traffic chaos on Monday morning for many motorists passing through the centre of the country.Parts of the northbound carriageway of Triq L-Indipendenza between Piet...

Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg is complicit in covering up the Pilatus Bank scandal, and she must shoulder responsibility and resign, the PN said in a statement on Monday.PN Spokesperson for Justice Karol Aquilina said that the Nationalist Party...

PN MEP David Casa has criticised the government for “sticking to the bare minimum” in its implementation of the EU’s Work-Life Balance directive in an opinion piece penned in The Malta Independent.Casa was the European Parliament&rs...

Two people were killed and at least five others were injured after gunfire erupted Sunday at a Los Angeles park where a car show was being held.The LA Police Department said the shooting occurred around 3:50 p.m. at Peck Park in LA's San Pedro neighb...

The National Statistics Office has published figures showing that 137,338 cruise passengers visited Malta in the second quarter of 2022, an encouraging recovery for an industry which was brought to an absolute standstill due to the Covid-19 pandemic....

There are many things which serve as kind of constants in the Maltese news cycle.  One of those, sadly, is accidents at construction sites.Week after week we receive press releases from the police telling us of an accident – generally a fa...