A 21-year-old man who was a passenger in a vehicle involved in an accident on 24 September, when an underaged driver crashed into a wall in Swieqi, has died.The accident had taken place at 1.30am on Triq il-Madliena. The driver, a 17-year-old girl re...

Denmark believes “deliberate actions” caused big leaks in two natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, and seismologists said powerful explosions preceded the leaks.European leaders and experts pointed to...

The Kremlin paved the way Tuesday to annex more of Ukraine and escalate the war by claiming that residents of a large swath overwhelmingly supported joining with Russia in stage-managed referendums the U.S. and its Western allies have dismissed as il...

A 7-year-old boy was grievously injured in a traffic accident on Triq Bir Rikka, Marsaxlokk on Tuesday.The accident occurred at 5.45pm. Preliminary investigations, the police said, found that the boy was hit by a Daelim motorbike ridden by a 39-year-...

Outgoing Standards Commissioner George Hyzler gave his final press conference Tuesday outlining new recommendations for Members of Parliament and public life while warning on the repercussions of delayed decision in naming his successor.Hyzler, who w...

The start of the new academic year always brings changes and challenges.In the past days one would have certainly noticed more cars, minivans and coaches on the road, as the transportation of students to and from school, in the morning and afternoon,...

A driving examiner has described how a Transport Malta director would tell him to help certain candidates to pass their driving tests, because they were “the minister’s.” The compilation of evidence against Transport Malta dire...

BirdLife Malta said today it is satisfied that the hunter who was witnessed shooting down and killing four Greater Flamingos in October 2021 from Qawra Point has been found guilty. He has been sentenced with a one-year jail term along with the confis...

PN Spokesperson for Tourism Robert Arrigo said that €500 million is wasted in one government term on non-standard public sector wages.He said that a lot of public sector workers receive a wage way above what is standard because of political link...

A 17-year-old young man named Kurt Muscat has been reported missing, and was last seen in Siggiewi, the police said.Anyone with any information about him is asked to pass it on to the police, even confidentially, by calling the police HQ on 21 224001...

In the case ZP Services Limited (the "Plaintiff") vs. Gennaro Lanza (the "Defendant") (collectively "the Parties") Honourable Judge Christian Falzon Scerri delved into and examined certain clauses which were included in the employment contract (the "...

A cycle of fresco paintings that date back to the rule of Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt (1601 – 1622) have been discovered during the restoration works currently ongoing at the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta, Heritage Malta said in a...

Luis Enrique was ready for the criticism to start pouring out back home. He knew another setback so close to the World Cup would raise questions about his team and his work.Then a late goal changed it all, and it was all joy and praise for La Roja he...

Two late goals gave Malta a more than deserved victory over Israel, who have gained promotion to Group A in the next UEFA Nations League. It was a very good overall performance by the boys in red, yesterday led by Davide Mazzotta after the suspension...

The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) approved an application for an IPPC permit for a new by-product treatment facility to reduce and reuse waste generated by the aquaculture industry. This facility, the first of its kind in Malta, will redu...

The Malta FA said Tuesday that Devis Mangia has been relieved temporarily of his duties as Head Coach of the National Teams following a report it received about alleged breach of its policies.Mangia has given his full availability for the facts of th...

Criminal proceedings against former Infrastructure Malta CEO Fredrick Azzopardi are to be assigned to a new magistrate, after his request for the recusal of magistrate Elaine Mercieca was upheld this morning.Azzopardi had requested the magistrate&rsq...

Just in time to celebrate his 86th birthday, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is making his return to Italy's parliament, winning a seat in the Senate nearly a decade after being banned from holding public office over a tax fraud conviction.B...

A discussion on the decriminalisation of abortion was the main theme during an informal dialogue at the National Youth Parliament led by the Speaker of the House of Representatives Anglu Farrugia.This meeting which was held in collaboration with the ...

22 new Covid-19 cases were registered in Malta on Tuesday, and no more deaths were reported.There are currently 237 active cases.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 114,605 Covid cases in the country, of which 113,168 have recovered. 804...

Voluntary organisations have the opportunity to apply for a scheme issued by the Sustainable Development Directorate and the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector. This scheme includes an investment of €50,000 in order to assist organisati...

A woman who handed money to a Transport Malta offical told police that she got in touch with him was to "speed up the process" of getting her nephew a driver's license. Maria Assunta Camilleri appeared before the court on Monday and was charged ...

 The final day of voting was taking place in Russian-held regions of Ukraine on Tuesday in preordained referendums that are expected to serve as a pretext for their annexation by Moscow.The ballots are heightening tension between the K...

The CEO of the Occupational Health and Safety Authority, Mark Gauci, made a strong point during an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday, arguing that fines for infringements related to health and safety matters should be increased to serve ...

There is no shortage of teachers in the state’s schools, Education Minister Clifton Grima said today.Answering questions by the media about the concern of teacher shortages around the island, Grima said that workers at the Education Ministry wh...

A motorcyclist was hospitalised after a traffic accident in Mdina Road in Birkirkara on Monday afternoon.The police said that a Kymco Agility motorcycle being ridden by a 24-year-old man from Gzira was involved in a traffic crash with a Mazda Demio b...

PN MP Jerome Caruana Cilia has proposed the appointment of a specialised person to assist Gozitan students in the shift in their life they would have to face as they start living alone to attend tertiary education.Following meetings with the Gozo Uni...

Another 25 people have been arrested for living in Malta illegally, police said on Monday.In a statement, the police said that it had carried out inspections in Paola and Fgura early on Monday morning which resulted in the arrests.Those who were arre...

A convicted thief and a former policeman have been jailed over the violent mugging of an elderly woman in Sliema, beating her with a 19cm metal tow hook and breaking her arm in three places.Miriam Elabed, a 30-year-old woman from Xghajra and former p...

Wizz Air Malta has been granted an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and an Operating Licence (OL) by the Malta Civil Aviation Directorate (CAD).The new airline will commence operations Tuesday...

A young man shot a Russian military officer at close range at an enlistment office Monday, in an unusually bold attack reflecting resistance to the Russian leadership's efforts to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men to wage war on Ukraine. The...

Part one of the healing process is complete for Italy.Looking to regain respect after failing to qualify for a second straight World Cup, the Azzurri advanced to next year’s finals tournament in the Nations League by winning at Hungary 2-0 than...

A man admitted in court to sending threatening letters to Opposition MPs and will be sentenced in October, 10 months after charges were brought against him.Joseph Mary Borg, 71, of Valletta, had been charged last November, accused of sending threaten...

16 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Monday.There are currently 229 active Covid cases in the country. No more deaths have been reported.Since the start of the pandemic, Malta has had 114,583 Covid-19 cases, of which 113,154 recovered. 804 people...

We’ve heard businesses complain about government taking employees from the private sector all before.Too many people in government jobs means that there is a labour shortage in the private sector.Teachers and healthcare workers are essential of...

A holistic strategy is needed for Malta to regain the quality and charm it once had, CEO of the Malta Chamber of SMEs Abigail Agius Mamo told this newsroom.The Chamber came out with a raft of proposals for the budget, which is set to be rev...

A party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy, won the most votes in Italy’s national elections, looking set to deliver the country’s first far-right-led government since World War II and make its leader, Giorgia Meloni, Italy's f...

A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 13 people and wounding 23 others before shooting himself dead, authorities said.The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers east of Moscow in the Udm...

Transport Malta plans to implement a number of measures to alleviate the increase in road traffic that the start of the new scholastic year is expected to cause."As a new scholastic year begins, Transport Malta is aware of the increase in road t...

The British pound fell to all-time low against the U.S. dollar early Monday after Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng pledged a sweeping package of tax cuts, fueling concerns about the government’s economic policy as the United Kingdom teeters t...

A team of researchers at the University of Malta, in collaboration with Mater Dei Hospital, are developing a device in an attempt to reduce the incidence of diabetic foot complications. The project is called “The Smart Insole Technology for the...

Malta, through the Malta Business Registry, will be hosting the Corporate Registers Forum Annual Conference. This was announced during the CRF AGM which was organised in the Maldives and is currently being chaired by the United Kingdom. The Corporate...

 Just like any other city, Valletta has experienced various types of crime.There were 639 cases of pickpocketing in Valletta in the period between 2017 and the end of last month, police crime records have revealed. Just last month, nine people w...

Air Malta is too small to survive, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said in comments to The Malta Independent on Sunday. No airline can survive in a marketplace which is increasingly dominated by low-cost airlines like Ryanair if all you have is eig...

Fines for infringements related to health and safety matters should be increased to serve as a greater deterrent against abuses, the CEO of the Occupational Health and Safety Authority, Mark Gauci, said.The minimum fine that can be given by a court o...

Child marriage is not a crime in Malta, cultural and legal experts have told The Malta Independent on Sunday, insisting that amendments should be made to our laws to make this practice illegal. They specified that not all forced marriages are child m...

More than €1.2 million were raised in a telethon on Sunday in aid of Bjorn Formosa’s newest venture: the DAR Bjorn Respite. This will be an extension to the second DAR Bjorn (located in Żebbuġ) and will serve as a Respite home fo...

The leader of the Nationalist Party Bernard Grech has called for a national protest against the 'theft of Malta's quality of life'.The protest will take place on Sunday, 2 October at 3 pm in Valletta, and Grech is urging everyone to attend.He made th...

The government taking employees away from the private sector is a ‘significant problem’, the CEO of the Malta Chamber of SMEs Abigail Agius Mamo told The Malta Independent on Sunday.The Chamber of SMEs issued a document with its prop...

A 51-year-old man from Mqabba died in Birzebbugia on Sunday morning, after being injured while using a mechanical plough, the police said in a statement.The accident occurred at 10.30am, on Triq Ħal Far. A medical tried to assist the victim, but...

GoTo sent an email out to its customers on Sunday revealing that it will be closing its services in Malta on 30 September 2022.GoTo is a rental service company where customers can pay a fee to rent a car or a moped to travel short distances. Although...

Three youths were grievously injured in a traffic accident at 2.45am on Sunday morning in Luqa, the police said.The accident occurred on Triq l-Ewwel Titjira and involved a Kia Rio, driven by a 30-year-old man from Zabbar, and a Toyota Corsa, driven ...

Croatia and the Netherlands finished warming up for the World Cup in style on Sunday by winning their last Nations League games to qualify for the Final Four tournament next year.Croatia topped Group A1 by winning 3-1 in Austria to relegate the hosts...

A large pro-choice rally took place in Valletta on Sunday, calling for the legalisation of abortion.Speeches were delivered at the Hastings Gardens.Pro choice activist Lara Dimitrijevic said that the pandemic has "not silenced nor stopped us from abo...

Summer has just passed and, as we prepare ourselves for the cooler weather, the reopening of schools and the presentation of the budget for 2023, we can look back at the last few months to take stock of the situation.We can’t say we’re al...

You’ve seen him on television and in theatres. He’s at his best there, and it’s no surprise that he says that drama is his favourite hobby and that his biggest regret is not having studied drama abroad.But what does Emanuel Cassar l...

Subtitles are excellent and very much needed but an interpreter would be better since sign language is deaf people's first language, Deaf People Association member Loran Ripard Xuereb told The Malta Independent on Sunday. Earlier this month, the...

The Government doubled the funds in schemes for young people to €450,000. This was revealed when the Youth Agency launched a funding program intended for youth organisations for the year 2023.The funding program includes schemes such as A4U, Be ...

17 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Sunday.There are currently 222 active Covid cases in the country. No more deaths have been reported.Since the start of the pandemic, Malta has had 114,567 Covid-19 cases, of which 113,145 recovered. 804 people...

Italians were voting on Sunday in an election that could move the country’s politics sharply toward the right during a critical time for Europe, with war in Ukraine fueling skyrocketing energy bills and testing the West's resolve to stand unite...

Buckingham Palace released a photo Saturday giving the first public glimpse of the new ledger stone installed at the final resting place of Queen Elizabeth II.The image shows the hand-carved Belgian black marble slab with brass letter ...

Prime Minister Robert Abela delivered an important message while addressing the United Nations general assembly on Thursday, pushing for peace.“Today, peace is threatened by what Secretary General Guterres rightly referred to as the &lsquo...

A man was critically injured while three others were also hurt as a car driven by a 17-year-old girl crashed into a wall in Swieqi, the police said.The accident took place in Madliena Road at 1.30am Saturday.The driver, a 17-year-old girl resident in...

Five organisations and the Xagħra Local Council have submitted an appeal with the Planning Tribunal (EPRT) against the Planning Commission’s decision to approve another Joseph Portelli pool in Marsalforn Valley. The appeal was made possibl...

In a meeting with António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, Prime Minister Robert Abela highlighted Malta’s priorities during its term on the United Nations Security Council from 2023–2024.Prime Minister Abela said that M...

St Albert the Great College announced Saturday that it is postponing the opening of the secondary school, while the primary school will open on Tuesday.In a statement, the college said that over the past few weeks, despite the administration's best e...

Maltese law has always protected a mother’s life, the Life Network Foundation said in a statement.Life Network said that it is not true that Maltese law favours the death of the mother in order to save the life of the unborn child, a claim bein...

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While attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Prime Minister Robert Abela held a bilateral meeting with President of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohamed Menfi.The Prime Minister noted that as an elected member of United Na...

Diogo Dalot helped Portugal take control of its Nations League group by scoring his first two international goals in a 4-0 rout at the Czech Republic on Saturday.Spain blew its lead of Group A2 after flopping in a 2-1 loss to Switzerland in front of ...

There were 16 new Covid-19 cases reported Saturday, health authorities said.This takes the number of cases registered so far to 114,550, with 113,132 people who recovered.The number of deaths remained at 804, while the number of active cases is now 2...

Italians will vote on Sunday in what is being billed as a crucial election as Europe reels from the repercussions of Russia's war in Ukraine. For the first time in Italy since the end of World War II, the election could propel a far-right l...

Russian forces launched new strikes on Ukrainian cities Saturday as Kremlin-orchestrated votes continued in occupied regions of Ukraine to pave the way for their annexation by Moscow.Zaporizhzhia Gov. Oleksandr Starukh said the Russians targeted infr...

ADPD – The Green Party Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo said Saturday that one of the lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic was that the lack of open spaces affected the mental health of those that were locked in their homes.The locality of San...

At its September Group meeting, Stefano Mallia was re-elected as President of the Employers' Group for the second half of the 2020-2025 mandate with a very strong vote in his favour. "I am extremely proud to have been re-elected President of the Empl...

A possibility for sellers to establish legal representation in the European Union has been discussed during an informal meeting between ministers for consumer protection.During her intervention on the enforcement of consumer laws, Malta’s own c...

Keith Schembri, Yorgen Fenech and three others have been charged with theft and misappropriation in connection with a government job given to the self-confessed middleman in the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Melvin Theuma.Sche...

The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) has received a warrant of prohibitory injunction from the rector at St Albert the Great College it said, to try and stop the union from issuing additional directives."The union has never declared that it shall be esc...

The Malta Institute of Accountants has launched the second edition of the #AccountsForYou Awareness Campaign, as it seeks to encourage young students to discover more about the exciting and varied career opportunities that this profession provides. I...

For far too long, world leaders have allowed disparities to grow in this world, Prime Minister Robert Abela told the United Nations general assembly on Thursday. This has happened between the rich and the poor; between those who have access to fundam...

A quote from the Prime Minister’s speech at the United Nations was one of five picked by the Associated Press as having been a highlight of the third day of the UN general assembly.Below is the story as it appeared on the AP feed. They sai...

This day, this match, had to come, of course, for Roger Federer, and for tennis, just as it inevitably must for every athlete in every sport.Federer bid adieu Friday night with one last contest before he heads into retirement at age 41 after a s...

Repubblika is going to file a complaint with the Commission for the Administration of Justice against Magistrate Nadine Lia, it said in a statement.Repubblika has been calling for the recusal of the magistrate in the challenge proceedings filed by Re...

The Police arrested four people, on Thursday evening, after they raided two warehouses in Triq il-Jerrejja and Triq is-Serkin in Marsa, in connection to drug trafficking.On the scene, a large number of drugs were found, which were allegedly ready to ...

During the first six months of the year, officials from the Occupational Health and Safety (OHSA) made 2,177 inspections in different workplaces both during working hours and after working hours.The workplaces ranged from micro businesses to large co...

The health authorities reported 31 new Covid-19 cases on Friday.The total number of cases registered so far is now 114,534, with 113,112 recoveries.The number of deaths has remained at 804, while the number of active cases is 212.The Health Ministry ...

Voting began in Russian-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia, Moscow-backed officials there said Friday as Ukrainian and United Nations officials reported evidence of war crimes during the nearly seven-month war in the coun...

A late defensive blunder punished Malta to another defeat against Estonia as our slim hopes of obtaining the much needed two-goal victoy vanished just before half time when Estonia were awarded a penalty and Jean Borg was sent off.Ironically with ten...

It was a rough night for two teams expected to be World Cup contenders. England lost at Italy 1-0 and was relegated from the top tier of the Nations League, and Germany lost at home to Hungary by the same score.Italy, which didn’t qualify for t...

The Office of the Commissioner for Children has raised concerns about the uncertain situation at Saint Albert the Great College.The Office is referring to the dismissal of headmaster Mario Mallia, who said he had been fired after pushing for inclusiv...

The tide of international opinion appears to be decisively shifting against Russia, as a number of non-aligned countries are joining the United States and its allies in condemning Moscow’s war in Ukraine and its threats to the princip...

Economy Minister Silvio Schembri announced that a Council for iGaming will be set up to serve as a forum to provide policy advice to the Government regarding the iGaming sector.Minister Schembri also mentioned that this Council will maintain contact ...

In the past days, The Malta Independent published – on its website – two photographs which went viral on the social media.The first was a photo of a board placed at the Ta’ Qali national park, with a message to dog owners to clean u...

A study by the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association shows that Malta will need to bring in 4.7 million tourists to cater for planned increase of hotels. This is almost double the 2.8 million tourists Malta received before the Covid-19 pandemic.Th...

A letter by journalists, academics, people in the media and others has been sent to the Prime Minister, calling on the government to hold a public consultation exercise on a number of bills being drafted pertaining to journalism and freedom of expres...

The administration of St. Albert the Great College on Thursday expressed its concern over what it described as the Malta Union of Teachers' (MUT) “reckless attempts to sabotage any efforts towards the opening of the scholastic year on Monday, d...

The Campus Hub underground car park has flooded, with water leaking onto electricity wires after continuous rainfall on Thursday.The videos show water leaking from the ceiling onto electricity wires. Water was leaking from the ceiling on every floor ...

An investigation conducted by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) has led the police to one of  the largest illegal live bird collections seized on Malta in recent years, a CABS statement said Thursday.CABS said that its teams were able ...

A 31-year-old construction worker from Xewkija was grievously injured on a construction site while using a chaser, the police said.The accident occurred at noon on Triq Bentrija, Xagħra, Gozo.He was taken to the Gozo General Hospital.Investigati...