The government plans on increasing the number of members of the judiciary in the near future, Justice Minister Jonathan Attard told The Malta Independent.In answering questions posed by this newsroom, Attard said that the government recognises that t...

Everyone should, at minimum, receive the full Cost of Living Allowance (COLA), PN spokesperson for Finance Jerome Caruana Cilia has told The Malta Independent. Asked about concerns raised by The Malta Chamber of Commerce, which put forward a proposal...

A teenager was seriously injured on Monday evening after he fell from a height at Għajn Tuffieħa. The 17-year-old, from England, was taking a walk in the Riviera Bay area when he tripped and fell off the cliffs at around 8.30pm, the po...

An e-scooter rider was grievously injured on Monday evening when he lost control of the scooter and crashed into a wall.The police said the accident took place in St Paul’s Street, St Paul’s Bay, at 10.30pm.The rider, a 20-year-old Serbia...

Developers Mizzi Estates have filed a new application to demolish and reconstruct the abandoned hotel in Mellieha, Festival Hotel, which lies in an ODZ and a buffer zone for an Area of Ecological Importance.The site is located in the Foresta 2000 nat...

A 21-year-old male student from Tarxien has been charged with raping a woman and a girl in separate incidents just 24 hours apart.Police inspectors John Spiteri, Sarah Kathleen Zerafa, Ryan Vella and Prosecutor Darlene Grima from the Attorney Ge...

Satabank owes over €76 million to more than 5,000 creditors, information in the government gazette revealed.A notice of liquidation was published in the Gazette. "The Controller of Satabank p.l.c. advises all creditors who may have a claim upon ...

Former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici is now in stable condition, according to reports.Mifsud Bonnici was admitted to Mater Dei Hospital on Sunday.Mifsud Bonnici served as Prime Minister between 1984 and 1987, succeeding Labour party stalwart ...

A man has been arrested after he allegedly set fire to two cars in Qormi in the early hours of Saturday morning.Police said that they had arrested a 36-year-old man who lives in Valletta in connection with arson committed on two vehicles over the wee...

Inflation is affecting the wedding sector as well as the type of weddings people are having, while destination weddings have become increasingly popular among the Maltese, wedding planners have said.The wedding sector had been significantly impacted ...

Finally, there are signs of life at Manchester United.Against a backdrop of protests against the club’s ownership, United delivered a performance of intensity and spirit to beat fierce rival Liverpool 2-1 on Monday and claim its first points in...

Injury-hit Juventus clearly missed Ángel Di María as it was held to a 0-0 draw at Sampdoria in Serie A on Monday.Di María had added some much-needed flair to the Juventus side and scored on his debut last weekend as well as provi...

33 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Monday, as the number of active cases dropped to 252.No more deaths have been reported.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 113,833 cases of Covid-19 in the country, of which 112,386 have recovered...

The Nationalist Party is calling on Minister Owen Bonnici to publish the "mysterious" agreement signed with a private operator to use Palazzo Vilhena in Mdina as a restaurant.The Nationalist party further said that in the same statement, Bonnici, thr...

In a meeting with Air Malta Chairman David Curmi and Director Nadia Giordamaina, PN Spokesperson Peter Aguis called for a national effort to protect the freedom of Movement of Maltese people from "unjust European air travel proposals".During the meet...

The student NGO Studenti Graffiti is concerned about the current socio-economic realities suffered by many low-income families in Malta.This follows Junior College announcing that it has implemented a four-year course for working students.Studenti Gr...

The restoration and maintenance works being carried out on the building of the Notarial Archives has reached the final stage, Minister for Justice Jonathan Attard said on Monday. At a press conference at the Notarial Archives in Valletta, Attard said...

Minister for Active Ageing Jo Etienne Abela and the President of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses Paul Pace expressed different views over the inquiry that was conducted following the disappearance of a patient, Carmelo Fino, from the St Vincen...

Former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici has been admitted hospital.Mifsud Bonnici was admitted to Mater Dei Hospital on Sunday according to the Labour Party’s media house ONE News.Mifsud Bonnici served as Prime Minister between 1984 and 19...

The uncovering of a car mileage tampering racket by some car dealers was one of the stories which grabbed attention the most over the course of the summer.It was in June that MaltaToday reported how two car dealers sold imported cars from Japan after...

73-year-old Joseph Micallef has been remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to shooting Noel Ciantar in Simbllija on Friday.Micallef, who is a farmer, was charged with shooting Ciantar and causing him serious bodily injuries, on Sunday afterno...

A man has died after being hit by a car in Marsa.Police told The Malta Independent that an accident had occurred at around 2pm in Triq Dicembru 13 close to a bus stop.Details about the victim’s identity are unknown, and he had not been identifi...

The daughter of an influential Russian political theorist who is often referred to as “Putin’s brain” was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday.The Moscow branch of the Russian Investigative Commi...

The president of the Malta Chamber of Commerce Marisa Xuereb has warned that granting the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) increase to everyone will lead to widespread price increases and more inflation.Xuereb was speaking during an interview with The...

Minister for Active Ageing Jo Etienne Abela has said that the circumstances which led to Carmelo Fino’s disappearance had nothing to do with the fact that the nurse on duty lacked experience, and the minister refused to entertain the idea that ...

Paul Pace, the president of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurse (MUMN), said that the newly-appointed Minister for Active Ageing, Jo Etienne Abela, used nurse Rhys Xuereb as a scapegoat because the minister was only interested in “saving his ...

St Paul’s Bay Mayor Alfred Grima said that the local council is not receiving enough financial aid to meet the demands of the growing locality because of the inaccurate data published by the National Statistics Office (NSO). “This situati...

New look Valletta under the guidance of new coach Thane Micallef left a good impression in their first outing against none others the champions Hibernians. The result was fair in this balanced and keenly contested affair between these two rivals of r...

Atalanta held defending champion AC Milan 1-1 in their Serie A clash on Sunday, while Georgia winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored twice to lead Napoli to a 4-0 win over promoted Monza.The 21-year-old Kvaratskhelia, who also scored on his league debut...

The only turtle nest for this season found at Ramla Bay had to be transferred to an incubation unit as strong waves hit the coast last Friday, said in a statement the Environment and Resources Authority.It added that “the turtle nest was put in...

In years to come, if Newcastle is contending for Premier League and Champions League titles as widely expected, the Saudi-funded team might look back on this game as the one when it truly arrived as a force in soccer.Few opponents have given Manchest...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna celebrated mass in the Parish Church of Marsaxlokk on Saturday evening, as the locality’s religious community reeled from the suspension of its parish priest Fr Luke Seguna.Luke Seguna 39, is facing charges on money ...

24 people who were found by police to be living in Gozo illegally have been arrested in Marsalforn, and are set to be deported, police said in a statement on Sunday.The police’s immigration squad carried out a number of inspections on Sunday mo...

23 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Sunday as the number of active cases has now dropped to 258.No new deaths have been reported.There have been a total of 113,800 cases of Covid-19 in the country since the start of the pandemic, of which 112,347 ...

A pre-Covid agreement with the authorities to install scanners at the port in Valletta to check vehicles arriving from Sicily never materialised, the Malta Chamber of SMEs CEO Abigail Agius Mamo told The Malta Independent on Sunday.“We had form...

An elderly man suffered grievous injury after the van he was driving crashed into a wall on Sunday morning.Police said that they were called to Triq Burmarrad in St. Paul’s Bay at around 10am on Sunday, where preliminary investigations showed t...

The Richmond Foundation’s next step is to have a mental health centre, founder and now former chairperson of the mental health organisation Anthony Guillaumier said.Guillaumier founded the Richmond Foundation in May 1993 to address the shortage...

The handling of Air Malta by successive governments can easily be described as one of the country’s biggest blunders.It was often used by one government after another for politicians to give jobs to people, resulting in a bloated company with t...

Adrian Casha is a former FIFA Referee and a UEFA Match Delegate as well as a Vice President at the Malta Football Association. He is currently working at the MCAST CSR & Events Department after a 31-year-old career at Air Malta. In 2018 Adrian wa...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has said that the government will not tamper with the Cost-of-Living Allowance (COLA), even if the amount will increase when compared to the past years.Abela was speaking during an interview on the programme 'Sibt il-Punt'...

Former President and Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami left hospital on Saturday and has returned home.In a post on Facebook, his son, Beppe, thanked everyone for their support, solidarity and prayers.Eddie Fenech Adami had been hospitalised after he...

A Maltese man was arrested in Pozzallo, Sicily, after nearly 18 kilogrammes of marijuana were found in a car, Italian news agency Ansa reports.The car, with a Maltese number plate, was about to be driven onto a ship on its way to Malta.In it, 143 pac...

Two men have been arrested in connection with the brawl in Hamrun that occurred on Thursday, while 11 other people involved were identified, the police said.The fight occurred on Triq il-Kbira San Ġużepp on Thursday. The police said that po...

If the Mdina Grand Prix doesn't take place in Mdina, it will not take place at all this year, Secretary of Malta Classic (the organisers behind the event) Karen Zammit Southernwood said.Several other local councils are calling up the Mdina Grand Prix...

Valletta: Collis Williams Pharmacy, 15, Republic Street; Ħamrun: St Gaetan Pharmacy, Kappillan Mifsud Street; Żebbuġ: Plaza Pharmacy, 86, Main Street; Birkirkara: Herba Pharmacy, 166, Salvu Psaila Street; Gżira: St Matthew's Pharm...

In a leaked video, Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin is seen dancing and singing with friends at a private party. The 36-year-old leader poses for the camera. She sits on her knees, hands behind her head. She’s entangled in a group hug...

The Maltese Police have arrested a 36-year-old Albanian man through a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Greek authorities.The man, Ledjon Brakaj,  is wanted to undergo criminal procedures regarding a double homicide and arson in Greece.He wa...

The PN said that the Prime Minister has failed to be transparent about Air Malta's future, adding that he has been silent about the matter for too long.PN spokespersons Ivan Castillo and Ivan J. Bartolo said in a statement that "the less Abela says, ...

Gzira United started their Premier League committments with an easy win against Santa Lucia in a match that was practically settled in the first half.Fresh from their positive run in the UEFA Conference League the Maroons quickly settled down to star...

Brazil great Ronaldo was a special guest at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday and he was pictured holding up a replica No. 9 jersey with his name on it before the game between Spurs and Wolverhampton.By fulltime, it was the scoring ...

Romelu Lukaku starred in his first home game for Inter Milan since returning from Chelsea, helping his team beat Spezia 3-0 on Saturday for two wins from two games in Serie A.The Belgium forward was involved in two goals – scored in each half b...

A driver was grievously injured when he lost control of the van he was driving and crashed into an electricity pole, the police said.The accident took place in Dun Karm Psaila Street, Msida, at 5.30pm on Friday.The biker, a 68-year-old man of Hamrun,...

Security in Malta is being threatened as every day there is a new story showing that the country's security is being compromised, PN spokesperson for Home Affairs Joe Giglio said.In a statement, Giglio said that the PN will continue to insist on meas...

The only recorded turtle nest in the country this season is expected to hatch around mid-September, Nature Trust Malta President Vincent Attard told The Malta Independent.Around a month ago, volunteer Serena from Wildlife Rescue Malta spotted turtle ...

56 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Saturday as the number of active cases has now dropped to 279.No new deaths have been reported.There have been a total of 113,777 cases of Covid-19 in the country since the start of the pandemic, of which 112,30...

A few weeks before the budget speech last year, the finance minister had mentioned that a special mechanism to protect the vulnerable from the cost-of-living impacts was being considered. After 12 months, nothing has come out of that ministerial anno...

Enemalta engineers and technicians are finalising works on the Marsascala Distribution Centre Project, with an investment of over €2.5 million, the company said."Over the past few weeks, the company has installed a new 22.5MVA 50-ton transformer...

Former President and Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami has been hospitalised after he collapsed at his home in Friday morning.Fenech Adami, who is 88 years old, was hospitalised after he fainted at his home and was undergoing tests at Mater Dei Hospi...

"It's scary that any person can see murdering a woman - a human being - in cold blood as normal." These were the words of Amy Mallia, an activist who is also Daphne Caruana Galizia's niece said.During a vigil for the assassinated journalist, she spok...

Lawyer William Cuschieri has renounced patronage of George and Alfred Degiorgio, the brothers accused of murdering Daphne Caruana Galizia.The surprise move comes at a time when Cuschieri was negotiating a plea deal for his clients with prosecutors.Th...

A 49-year-old man was seriously injured in a shooting at a farmhouse in Wied Ħażrum, limits of Rabat.The incident happened at around 12.15pm on Friday, when the victim was shot at with a firearm.Police Spokesperson Brandon Pisani, who ...

A worker who suffered serious injuries after falling off a truck while working at the Corradino Industrial Estate earlier this week has died in hospital.Police said that the 65-year-old man, who lives in Attard, succumbed to his injuries on Friday.He...

A 64-year-old man was arrested over the importation of heroin, the police said in a statement on Friday.The man was arrested late on Wednesday at the Malta International Airport, after he was found to be in possession of three kilos of a substance be...

Birkirkara gained the first three poinst when in the first match of Season 2022/23 they beat Sirens by two goals to nil. Both teams went through a number of changes during the summer. B’Kara after appointing Giovanni Tedesco as their new mentor...

The Syrian community in Malta, the Syrian Solidarity in Malta NGO said, have condemned the 20-man brawl involving Syrians in Hamrun.Two people were hospitalised on Thursday after being involved in a brawl in Hamrun. The fight broke out between a grou...

Hamrun Mayor Christian Sammut has said that more police presence is needed in the roads and squares of the locality of Hamrun to ensure the safety of its residents, as an incident broke out on Thursday afternoon.Contacted by The Malta Independent aft...

Around 800 manuscripts dating from 1786 to the end of the 19th century, covering the works of 16 architects, were donated to the National Archives.Perit André Zammit had discovered this collection in a loft at an old family hous...

28 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Friday, as one more person died while positive for the virus.Currently, there are 311 active cases in the country.Since the start of the pandemic, 113,721 Covid-19 cases were recorded in the country, of which ...

The past week has once again seen the law courts turn into the centre of attention for a case related to money laundering.This is after the parish priest of Marsaxlokk Fr Luke Seguna was arraigned and charged with money laundering and fraud, with pol...

Partizan 4Hamrun S 1Hamrun Spartans’ brilliant adventure in the Conference League will most likely finish with the tie against Partizan as the side from Belgrade won the first leg yesterday 4-1. Hamrun played another great match yeste...

80% of complaints filed with the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority over the alleged car mileage tampering case have been resolved, Minister for Inclusion, Social Wellbeing and Voluntary Organisations Julia Farrugia Portelli said. ...

The Lombard Bank Group (the Group) registered a Profit before Tax of €17.2m, in H1 2022, up from €5.4m for the same period last year, while the Bank’s Profit before Tax was €18.3m, up from €4.0m in H1 2021. These results inc...

The Mtarfa, Rabat and Mdina local councils have declared that they are all against the Mdina Grand Prix, which is taking place between the 13 and 16 October 2022.This disapproval arose due to what they called the severe inconvenience for the resident...

The fourth edition of the Gozo Film Festival will take place from the 19 till the 21 of August at Cittadella in Rabat, Gozo, where entry is free of charge.The Minister for Gozo, Clint Camilleri, stated that this event was being staged with the help o...

66 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Thursday.There are currently 369 active cases in the country.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 113,693 Covid cases in Malta, of which 112,130 recovered. 798 people in total in Malta have died whil...

A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 21 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 33 others, eyewitnesses and police said Thursday.There was no immediate claim of responsibility ...

Two people were hospitalised after being involved in a brawl in Hamrun at 1pm on Thursday.A fight broke out between a group of Syrians close to the Hamrun police station, with a group of over 20 men being involved.The fight happened in St. Joseph Hig...

The mental well-being of employees is an issue that was in the news recently.The most recent 2022 Misco survey on Employee Wellbeing at the Workplace displayed a significant increase in the respondents stating that they have mental health issues rela...

A spate of explosions and fires has turned Russian-occupied Crimea from a secure rear base into a new battleground in the war, demonstrating both the Russians' vulnerability and the Ukrainians' capacity to strike deep behind enemy lines.Nine Russian ...

A 27-year-old motorcyclist was is in danger of dying after being involved in a traffic accident on Wednesday night.Police said that officers were alerted to a traffic accident in Paola at 10:30pm on Wednesday in Telghet Rahal Gdid in Paola, resulting...

Servizz.gov centres will be temporarily closed for maintenance works. The Msida centre located in Triq il-Wied, the centre in Lija located in Triq il-Kbira and the Technical centre of Edu servizz.gov located in Triq l-Assedju il-Kbir in Floriana will...

Marsaxlokk parish priest Fr Luke Seguna had bank deposits amounting to €450,000 over seven years, when his salary amounted to only €75,000 over the same period.The information emerged in the first sitting of the compilation of evidence agai...

A 20-year-old Syrian man has been charged with raping a woman in Valletta, with the woman escaping her alleged aggressor by jumping into the sea.Construction worker Qasem Saleh was charged in court before Magistrate Marse-Ann Farrugia on Wednesday in...

The Gozo Business Chamber wants the Malta to Gozo tunnel to remain a “key policy priority”, as it proposed a set of measures for the sister island for the upcoming Budget.The Chamber’s document addressed four main points: employment...

The General Workers’ Union (GWU) will not accept the proposals made by employers to change the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) mechanism.GWU said that a change of mechanism to appeal to the employers’ proposals would be a violation of th...

Fewer Maltese visited Gozo over the Santa Marija weekend, but an increase in foreign tourists visiting the island was recorded this year, Chief Executive Officer of the Gozo Tourism Association Joe Muscat said.Muscat said that according to reports th...

SLIEMA FRANK SALT............ 12SAN ĠILJAN JP PROJECTS..... 16(2-3), (4-5), (1-5), (5-3) Three colours dominated the National Pool at the end of the game - black, yellow and red; the colours of San Ġiljan. Zeljko Kovacic’s team s...

It’s scary that any person can see murdering a woman - a human being - in cold blood as ‘normal’,” Amy Mallia, an activist who is Daphne Caruana Galizia's niece said.She spoke during a vigil for Caruana Galizia held on Tuesday...

42 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Wednesday, with one patient dying while positive for the virus.This brings the number of active cases down to 380. Since the start of the pandemic, 113,627 virus cases have been registered, of which 112,053 ha...

The Nationalist Party has hit out at the government over a restaurant in Palazzo Vilhena.Palazzo Vilhena in Mdina, which falls under Heritage Malta, recently began being used by the private sector through a mysterious agreement with the same agency a...

A man who got into the grounds of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow told police he wanted to “kill the queen,” prosecutors said during a court hearing Wednesday.Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, is charged under the Treason Act with intending t...

The President of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) Paul Pace came out in defence of nurse Rhys Xuereb who he says was "unjustly suspended" for the disappearance of Carmelo Fino from the St. Vincent De Paul Residence (SVPR).The MUMN has is...

The second phase of the 'Hearing Care For All" campaign has just been launched, Minister for Inclusion, Social Wellbeing and Voluntary Organisations Julia Farrugia Portelli has said.The first phase left very fruitful results, she said.The aim of this...

The first doses of the Monkeypox vaccine have arrived in Malta as part of the EU Joint Procurement Mechanism, Health Minister Chris Fearne tweeted on Tuesday.The vaccine, he said, will be offered to primary contacts of confirmed Monkeypox cases free ...

It is news to precisely nobody that the Nationalist Party is in the midst of a struggle.  Electoral losses by historic margins, internal divisions, financial trouble, and supporters and members departing the party in their droves are all issues ...

The Restoration Directorate within the Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government acted upon a request of the Senglea local council to undertake restoration works on the bastion wall leading down to Boiler Wharf from Triq is-Su...

Top management in businesses need to address any issues that are related to the mental well-being of their employees, Director General of the Malta Employers’ Association (MEA) Joseph Farrugia has said. The Malta Independent sat down with ...

The PN has launched a consultation process on proposals to better regulate the use of e-scooters.It is good to find alternative means of transport, particularly those that do not pollute such as e-scooters, the PN said in a statement.It reiterated th...

A planning application has been filed proposing the official change of use of the rehabilitated Wied Fulija landfill to a public park.In July, Prime Minister Robert Abela had said that Wied Fulija had been converted from a dumping site to an open spa...