The composition of the Parliamentary Standards Committee puts ‘unfair pressure’ on the Speaker of the House to act as a referee, Standards Commissioner George Hyzler said.In an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday, Hyzler, who w...

Psychologist Patrick Psaila states that businesses should “put their money where their mouth is” when talking about the importance of mental health at the workplace.“They need to have a corporate wellness programme in place, which m...

Robert Arrigo put his finger on one of the harsher realities of political life, newly elected PN deputy leader Alex Perici Calascione told The Malta Independent on Sunday.Internal disputes in the PN over recent years are well-known. At the end o...

Some 10,000 fireworks on a 55-metre high tower are all set to light up the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Mqabba today.The St Mary Fireworks Group in Mqabba is well-known for being one of the island’s top- notch fireworks’ ...

It’s a contradiction to be worried about over-development in Gozo, and then be in favour of the construction of a tunnel to Malta and an airport, former Labour Prime Minister Alfred Sant said today.Writing on Facebook, the Labour MEP said that ...

Exploratory workshops are being held to investigate the innovative idea of using Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) sites to study and survey marine litter.These workshops are being funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants.T...

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat thinks that Malta’s institutions, or at least some of them, buckle under pressure.That is what he wrote on social media the moment it became known that Fredrick Azzopardi was to be arraigned in court over all...

As the heat of our coffee radiated into our fingertips, we sat in a secluded corner of a frequented coffee shop both with our laptops open, working on our most recent project, both of us deep in thought. As the air in the room became saturated with t...

A Maltese interior designer has sparked a row over an 18th century hunting lodge in the UK.The Daily Mail reports that a war of words broke out between interior designers over the installation of electric gates at the Odiham lodge that is located in ...

A biker is in crtical condition after he was involved in an accident on the Marsascala bypass on Saturday evening.The police said that the accident, apart from the bike, a Piaggio, involved three cars.The cars were a Mazda Demio, driven by a 44-year-...

“The Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York.Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries...

Kayak for Charity duo Dorian Vassallo and Albert Gambina are taking on a paddling challenge to raise funds for the Inspire Foundation.The Malta Independent on Sunday spoke with Vassallo about the duo’s journey, which includes paddling around Ma...

Russia's military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupie...

Moviment Graffitti activists this morning ended up arguing with beachgoers and the police as they turned up on Comino to "reclaim" the island.Beachgoers were heard telling the protesters that they had been waiting for a year to go to Comino for a day...

An elderly man was injured when he lost control of a car he was driving and crashed into another vehicle, with both cars then ending up careening into three other parked vehicles.The accident happened on Friday at 10.15pm in Valley Road, Msida.The po...

Three balconies have collapsed in Marsacala, the locality mayor has said.The accident has taken place in Zonqor Street this morning.No-one has been injured, mayor Mario Calleja said.It is believed that the top balcony of the three-storey building col...

Valletta: Chemimart City Gate Pharmacy, City Gate; Marsa: San Raffael Pharmacy, 247, Qormi Road; Żebbuġ: De Rohan Pharmacy, St Anthony Street; Birkirkara: St Jude Pharmacy, 213, Valley Road; Gżira: O'Hea Pharmacy, 128, Manoel de Vilhen...

Famous Italian journalist Piero Angela has died, aged 93, his family has said.Angela was the producer and presenter of Rai TV programmes such as Quark and Superquark, programmes which dealt with science, geography and history, and which drew millions...

Health authorities yesterday reported 30 new Covid-19 cases, while the number of active cases continues to drop.In all, the country has registered 113,501 cases since March 2020, with 111,784 persons who recovered.The number of active cases is now 52...

Ryan Schembri’s business partner, Darren Casha, detailed how the accused lured him into his various business ventures before eventually fooling him into taking over the failing More Supermarkets chain.Casha testified in court on Friday morning ...

SAN ĠILJAN JP PROJECTS....... 7SLIEMA FRANK SALT.............. 6(2-2), (1-3), (1-1), (3-0) San Ġiljan JP Projects are just one win away from clinching their 12th league in their history. For most of the match, they didn’t look th...

Temperatures soared in England on Saturday and no one was feeling the heat more than Manchester United’s latest manager, Erik ten Hag.On another humiliating day for a massive club in freefall, United conceded four goals in the first 35 minutes ...

It took Romelu Lukaku just 82 seconds to mark his return to Inter Milan with a goal.But it was Denzel Dumfries who decided the game with a stoppage-time winner to see Inter snatch a 2-1 victory at newly-promoted Lecce on Saturday, just as the Nerazzu...

Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo said that more enforcement is the solution to complaints about loud music being played until late at night in Valletta.No, minister, the solution would be to repeal the legal notice which the government decided to int...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry said it believes that termination packages for Air Malta employees "appear to be absurdly high and illustrative of how the bargaining power of overly protected groups results in unfair outcomes f...

It is evident that the Labour Party uses politics as a game in which empty promises may be made in order to buy votes, ADPD – The Green Party Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo said in relation to the latest developments with respect to Air Malta.It ...

Workers who had a salary raise this year should not receive the full cost of living adjustment expected to be announced in the budget later this year, the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry is suggesting.They should only get the diffe...

Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New Y...

European authorities are considering a liquefied natural gas pipeline from Spain to Italy as a way of getting around France’s opposition to a gas link-up across the Pyrenees between the Iberian peninsula and central Europe, Portugal's prime min...

The parish priest of Marsaxlokk was arraigned in court on Friday morning, pleading not guilty to charges related to misappropriation of funds and money laundering.Fr Luke Seguna, 39, appeared under arrest before Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech on ...

The body of a diver who went missing on Thursday afternoon was recovered from sea on Friday morning, police told The Malta Independent.The body of Sgt. Christian Degabriele was found at around 8.45am Friday morning between Buġibba and ...

One of Mosta’s main roads once again became the centre of works, after the rain which fell in the past two days damaged the newly laid asphalt.Triq il-Kbira, which stretches from close to Ta’ Qali to the Mosta square, has been the subject...

Former PN candidate Frank Psaila has been appointed by the Social Ministry as the chairman of the Medicines Review Board and the Periti Warrants Board, for a period of three years.The appointment was formally announced in The Malta Government Ga...

A €653,637 administrative penalty has been issued against a credit institution for a number of failings, the FIAU has said.The compliance review of Ferratum Bank P.L.C revealed that the Bank's Business Risk Assessment had various shortcomings th...

44 new Covid-19 cases were registered in Malta, as the number of active cases continues to drop.There are currently 570 active cases in the country. No more deaths have been reported.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 113,471 cases of t...

More enforcement is the solution to complaints about loud music being played until late in the night in Valletta, Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo told The Malta Independent.After hoteliers lamented that tourists are complaining because of loud music...

The Allied Health Care Workers Union (AHCWU) is requesting that the government take immediate action to address the shortage of health workers.The AHCWU expressed its disappointment with the health sector in Malta. It added that this mainly has to do...

The Malta Employers' Association described the severance package offered to redundant Air Malta employees as the most obscene agreement in Malta's industrial relations history."If the details as mentioned in the media are correct, 350 employees repre...

The Central Bank of Malta expects Malta's gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 5.2% in 2022, 4.5% in 2023 and 3.7% in 2024.Compared to the previous projections, the bank's latest forecast represents downward revisions of 0.2% in 2022, 0.4% in 2023...

Alleged fuel smuggler Gordon Debono has requested an urgent police investigation aimed at identifying the government-based source of rumours which had falsely connected him to the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.The request cites the conclusions of ...

The Gozo Tourism Association on Wednesday published the results of a survey which it carried out over the past couple of weeks which, amongst other things, found that Gozo is losing its charm as a result of over-development.The survey focused on Gozo...

95% of the General Workers’ Union members who work at Air Malta have voted in favour of an agreement reached between the union and the government on termination packages.The vote took place across two meetings held on Wednesday and Thursday, an...

The Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) will relocate to Smart City after the Planning Board approved planning permission for the development of a new hospitality campus to cater for local and foreign students.The application, which was filed way back...

Hamrun Spartans wrote a golden chapter yesterday, not only for themselves but for the whole Maltese football, becoming the first local side to make it to the playoff stages of the UEFA Europa Conference League.It was a heroic per4formance for the Spa...

The Festival and events bar operator Barcode has announced that the company will be refunding back the unredeemed digital tokens of over €1 from a number of festivals. These festival include Food Festival Gozo (Xewkija), Farsons Beer Festiv...

The Daphne Caruana Galizia foundation has welcomed the news that the government is analysing feedback from the Committee of Experts it appointed in the wake of the Public Inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination. “One of the pr...

A burst of rainfall hit various parts of Malta this morning and early afternoon, as had been predicted by the Met Office.Localities such as Mrieħel, Qormi, Birkirkara, Msida and Marsa were hit harder than other localities, and most of the street...

The airline Ryanair will no longer be in a position to offer flights at very low prices, according to the airline’s chief executive Michael O’Leary. In an international report published by The Guardian on Thursday, it was reported th...

SLIEMA FRANK SALT........... 10NEPTUNES VIDEOSLOTS...... 7(2-3), (3-2), (3-1), (2-1) A second consecutive win in the space of three days for Sliema Frank Salt permitted Beto Fernandez’s team a deserved place in the best out of three final ...

After losing 1-3 to RFS in the second leg at the Centenary Stadium yesterday evening, Hibernians were ousted from the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa Conference League by a Latvian team for the second year in a row.The Latvian side will the...

A woman suffered grievous injuries in an accident at 1pm on Thursday.Preliminary police investigations found that the 32-year-old woman from Portugal was riding pillion on a quad bike being driven by a 29-year-old man who is also from Portugal. The q...

49 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Thursday, health authorities said in their latest pandemic update.The number of active cases has dropped to 625.Since the start of the pandemic, 113,427 Covid cases were registered in Malta, 111,609 of which r...

“It is unacceptable that other European Member States are building walls while leaving countries like Malta and Italy to face the realities of migration alone,” Labour Member of the European Parliament Cyrus Engerer said on Wednesday.Whil...

A man is in danger of dying after he fell while carrying out works in a garage in Vittoriosa.Police said in a statement that a 32-year-old man was injured when he fell around a storey at 11:45am while he was working in a garage in Triq San Lawrenz in...

A man is in hospital with grievous injuries after he was hit by a car following a fight in San Gwann on Wednesday evening, the police said.The man, a 27-year-old Polish resident in San Gwann, was involved in a fight with two men whose identity is sti...

The final preparations for the return of the SummerDaze Festival musical concert are going on at a good pace, after a two-year absence due to the restrictions brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. During a visit made by Tourism Minister Clayto...

Ukraine said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would represent a significant escalation in the war.Russia de...

The document put forward by the Malta Employers Association as the government prepares the budget for 2023 gives so much food for thought.It offers myriad suggestions, but the one that stood out the most is its description of plans for the building o...

A vacancy advert posted on Facebook calling for new headmasters for St Albert the Great College has created further tension among teachers at the school, some of whom have resorted to expressing their disapproval through comments on social media.The ...

All establishments that took part in a survey organised by the Gozo Tourism Association said that the sister island is losing its charm because of over-development.During the past two weeks, the Gozo Tourism Association said conducted an online surve...

Greek authorities were conducting a major search and rescue operation Wednesday for dozens of people missing at sea east of the island of Karpathos after a boat reportedly carrying up to 80 migrants sank during the night.The coast guard said that by ...

The Industrial action that came after discrimination against Environmental Health Officers (EHO) has been lifted by the UHM after multiple talks between the union and the Health Ministry.This dispute came about because the government refused to honou...

43 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Wednesday, as one patient passed away while positive for the virus.The number of active cases has dropped to 696.Since the start of the pandemic, 113,378 Covid cases were registered in Malta, 111,489 of which ...

The responses of a committee of media experts to a number of proposed reforms to the journalism sector are being analysed by the government as it gets ready to table legislative changes in parliament, Justice Minister Jonathan Attard told representat...

This time, there were only two goals.David Alaba and Karim Benzema scored in each half for Real Madrid to win the UEFA Super Cup with a 2-0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday.Alaba prodded the opener home from close range in the 37th minut...

27 people have been arrested for living in Malta illegally and are set to be deported, the police said in a statement on Tuesday.The police said that its Immigration squad and the Marsa Community Police team carried out a number of inspections across...

The Malta Guide Dogs Foundation, which trains visually-impaired persons to become independent in their mobility through the use of the white cane and guide dogs, has aired a number of concerns over e-scooters.The Foundation believes that the introduc...

A traditional scene could be witnessed in Marsaxlokk on Tuesday night, as the locality’s parish priest Fr Luke Seguna blessed fishermen’s vessels prior to the opening of the lampuki fishing season. The tradition is done every year in...

An e-scooter rider was injured after he was hit by a car on the St Paul’s Bay by-pass on Tuesday evening, the police said.The rider, a Spanish man aged 25, resident in St Paul’s Bay, was crossing the road when he was hit by a Hyundai Getz...

Guitarist, actor and singer Jesmond Tedesco Triccas has passed away, his niece Roberta Metsola announced.He was 59.My superstar uncle Jesmond Tedesco Triccas or It-Triccas as everyone in Malta knew him, passed away last night, the President of the Eu...

The Malta Employers’ Association (MEA) has called on the government to shelve what they described as “airy fairy projects” and use the money for more pressing infrastructural priorities and to get the country’s finances back o...

An 81-year-old man was on Tuesday accused in court of having sexually abused a five-year-old girl.Carmelo Refalo pleaded not guilty to defilement of the minor, facilitating her defilement, committing sexual acts with a person under the age of 16, and...

A general election will be held in Italy in September, earlier than anticipated.Once again, the Italians are called to select their representatives, and the outcome of the election will also have a bearing on Malta, at least where irregular migration...

Former Infrastructure Malta CEO Frederick Azzopardi has requested the recusal of the magistrate tasked with hearing the criminal case filed against him over breaches of environmental protection legislation, on the grounds that the same magistrate had...

47 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Tuesday, as one patient passed away while positive for the virus. The number of active cases has dropped to 799.Since the start of the pandemic, 113,335 Covid cases were registered in Malta, 111,344 of which r...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna met with the staff of St Albert the Great College and expressed his hope that initiatives of inclusiveness be implemented in Church schools in the spirit of openness and dialogue with all stakeholders, particularly in scho...

Eman Cross, a 20-year-old far-right sympathiser from Hamrun, has been arraigned in court this morning, charged with threatening his mother and her partner, as well as making threats and insults in excess of the limits of provocation, during a domesti...

The NSO recorded that the total number of final deeds of sale to residential property amounted to 1,246 during July 2022, which is a decrease of 10.1% or 140 deeds compared to last year. Although there was this decrease, the value of these deeds amou...

Gzira’s european run came to an abrupt end yesterday at Ta’ Qali as the Maroons were heavily beaten 4-0 by Austrian side Wolfsberger who thus qualify for the Play-Off stage.It was a sad ending to Gzira’s impressive european run this...

NEPTUNES VIDEOSLOTS........ 9SLIEMA FRANK SALT............. 11(2-4), (3-3), (3-2), (1-2) A fine display by Sliema Frank Salt permitted them to keep on hoping for a berth in the final against San Ġiljan. Neptunes started the semi-final with ...

Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as “Physical” and “You’re the One That I Want” and won countless hearts as everyone’s...

Bank of Valletta announced that it will no longer be charging the high-balance fee on deposits to non-personal customers. The high-balance fee was introduced as a result of the negative interest rate scenario that was prevalent till end of July 2022....

Maltese embassies abroad have invested in a new Consul On The Move (COTM) toolkit through an investment of around €250,000 from the Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade.The COTM programme caters for Maltese communities living abro...

Labour Party CEO and MP Randolph Debattista said that if parliamentary speeches become shorter, the work carried out by the government would increase and the speeches would become more engaging for all MPs as well as for those following proceedings.&...

A construction worker suffered grievous injuries when he fell one and a half storeys in a construction site he was working in.The man, who police were unable to identify at the time, fell while he was carrying out works at a site located in Triq l-Im...

A woman was injured when she lost control of the car she was driving and crashed into a wall, the police said.The accident took place in Borg Gharib Street, Ghajnsielem, at 11.45pm on Monday.The woman, aged 40, from Ghajnsielem, was driving a Chevrol...

A judge has ordered the release of a man wanted by the Bulgarian authorities in order to serve a three-year prison sentence for rape, in view of the failure by the Attorney General’s Office to make the necessary travel arrangements to return hi...

The Information and Data Protection Commissioner Ian Deguara has recognized that former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's government kept a potentially unlawful agreement hidden from the public, the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation said, adding that th...

The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) has taken Mario Mallia’s sacking as the headmaster of St Albert the Great College to the industrial tribunal, as it filed an unfair dismissal case on Monday morning.This news was announced during a press confer...

PN MPs Ivan J. Bartolo and Ivan Castillo said that there are no issues between Opposition leader Bernard Grech and former deputy leader Robert Arrigo.“There is no issue. The fact that he says he was hurt is normal in a workplace. I believe wher...

The German vessel Sea-Eye 4, carrying 87 migrants has been denied entry to Malta and is now on its way to Southern Italy, in the hopes that they will be able to dock there.Sea-Eye is a German civil sea rescue organisation, well known for carrying out...

The former Gozitan residence of renowned British novelist Nicholas Monsarrat will remain as a protected Grade 2 scheduled building, after the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT) turned down an appeal lodged by third parties for its protec...

Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, adored by fans throughout a 24-year career, has a more sinister side to his character, prosecutors said Monday as he went on trial on charges of assault and use of coercive behavior against an ex-girlfriend.P...

The government’s plan for the last-ditch restructuring of the national airline Air Malta has proven to have failed, the PN said on Monday.PN MPs Ivan J Bartolo and Ivan Castillo addressed a press conference on the government’s plans to re...

Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar held a meeting with President George Vella in order to discuss the increasing threat to Malta’s quality of life due to the congestion of over-development combined with  loss of trees and open spaces.&n...

Plans to construct the new hospitality campus of the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) in Smart City are set to be discussed by the Planning Board on Thursday.The application, which was filed in 2016, proposes the construction of the campus as well ...

An agreement between Arts Council Malta and the National Book Council aiming to strengthen the existing collaboration between these two entities for the promotion of several artistic and educational initiatives, particularly during the National Book ...

A biker was grievously injured in a traffic accident in Burmarrad on Monday morning.The biker, a 46-year-old man from Mellieha, was riding a Honda which was involved in a collision with a Suzuki Swift driven by a 46-year-old man of St Paul’s Ba...

Former Labour Prime Minister Alfred Sant said that the “potentially fatal” confusion within the Nationalist Party is a result of how the Lawrence Gonzi administration worked between 2008 and 2013.In a post on Facebook, Sant said that one ...