The government’s ‘selfish move’ to cut funds on a mental health helpline operated by Richmond Foundation shows a lack of respect towards the foundation’s employees and robs people needing support of stability they desperately ...

A Maltese chartering company owner and four employees have been acquitted of supplying vessels for the evacuation of mercenaries from Libya in breach of EU sanctions.James Fenech, who owns Sovereign Charters, had been arraigned in court in 2020 along...

Three judges of the Constitutional Court have dismissed an appeal filed by Yorgen Fenech, the millionaire businessman indicted for allegedly commissioning the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, confirming a previous rejection of Fenech’s claim t...

As from November, the government will stop giving funds to the Richmond Foundation to run is 24/7 mental health helpline.The service has helped hundreds of people who needed comfort and attention at a time of difficulty, with the numbers growing duri...

Rishi Sunak faced the opposition in Parliament for the first time as Britain's prime minister Wednesday, promising to restore economic stability after his predecessor’s tax plans triggered market tumult.Sunak ripped up more of predecessor ...

“The Government is allocating 10% of its 2023 Budget to ensure stable energy bills and fuel prices because we do not want families and businesses to relive the economic hardships of the 2008 energy price hikes,” Energy Minister Miriam Dal...

The Malta International Airport will be on the receiving end of €12 million in tax credits in order to compensate for losses sustained due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The news was announced by the MIA in a filing with the Malta Stock Exchange on We...

A man arraigned on drug trafficking charges has pleaded not guilty.Police said in a statement on Tuesday that the force had received a tip-off that a drugs sale would take place on Monday, and immediately began following a vehicle which was being dri...

A motorcyclist suffered grievous injuries after he was involved in a traffic accident in Zejtun on Wednesday morning.Police said in a statement that the accident happened at 11am on the corner of Triq Alfredo Cachia Zammit and Triq l-Isqof Antonio Za...

A teenager was critically injured when he was hit by a car in Hamrun on Tuesday evening, the police said.The accident took place in St Joseph High Road at 9pm.The 18-year-old Syrian man, resident in Fgura, was hit by an Opel Corsa being driven by a 2...

Over 1,300 migrants were rescued by Italian authorities on Wednesday, from a Search and Rescue (SAR) zone shared between Malta and Italy.NGO Alarm Phone alerted the authorities about the people in distress on Tuesday who left from Tobruk, Libya.The N...

Barcelona was eliminated from the Champions League on Wednesday even before enduring yet another 3-0 beating by Bayern Munich.Atlético Madrid also went out following an extraordinary sequence around a penalty awarded by video review after the ...

The man who died in a traffic accident on Tuesday has been named as Anthony Bongailas, a member of the Beland Band.Bongailas, 69, was hit by a truck in Triq Xrob l-Ghagin.He died in hospital some time later.He was a resident of Zejtun, and became the...

They are two photos taken exactly seven weeks apart, capturing the traditional and ceremonial rites of the monarch meeting the British prime minister-in-waiting to ask them to form a new government.They are also bookends.Between the taking of the fir...

28 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Wednesday, and no more deaths were recorded.The number of new cases is identical to the number of new cases reported on Tuesday.The number of active cases in the country stands at 362.Since the start of the pa...

No new major infrastructural projects were announced in the budget, and the omission of others on which there was so much public discussion in the past years likely means that they are no longer a priority for the government.In his budget speech last...

A 73-year-old man was hospitalised early on Wednesday morning after he was involved in a motorcycle crash.Police said in a statement that they were informed of a traffic accident at 6am in Triq Birzebbuga in Birzebbuga.Preliminary investigations show...

It is a constantly changing world and Malta needs to keep diversifying its economy without neglecting the central pillar of the manufacturing industry, Peter Agius, EU official and prospective MEP candidate, said during a visit to ST micro-electronic...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has declared in his asset filings that he owns three properties and has over €370,000 in savings in various bank accounts.The declaration was made public after the Cabinet’s asset declarations for 2021 were tabl...

An official remembrance for the late Robert Arrigo was held in Parliament on Tuesday, as the former MP's wife, Marina, and their two sons, Andrew and Alan, were in attendance.MPs in Parliament bid farewell to their colleague.Opposition Leader Bernard...

Repubblika's lawyer has rejected the State Advocate's accusation of "forum shopping," with regards to the challenge proceedings it filed over the Commissioner of Police's failure to press charges against several Pilatus Bank officials, saying it had ...

A man who was critically injured on Tuesday morning after he was hit by a car, has died in hospital, the police said.The accident happened in Triq Xrob l-Ghagin, Zejtun, at 9am.The man, aged 69, was hit by an Isuzu Elf driven by a 62-year-old man. Bo...

A few protestors from four organisations held an impromptu protest at the Msida creek, holding up placards while the traffic lights were red in the road, with the message that they want safer roads with more investments going towards public and activ...

Four people connected to organised crime and who are allegedly involved in a drug trafficking ring and money laundering were arrested by police during an operation on Monday.Police said in a statement that the force had received a tip-off that a drug...

More than 29,000 people have died on migration journeys to Europe since 2019, with 5,000 perishing in the last two years, the International Organization for Migration said in a report issued Tuesday.The Missing Migrants Project of the U.N. agency war...

Former PN MP Karl Gouder has opted not to throw in his hat for the casual election to replace the late Robert Arrigo.Gouder said that at this point in time he prefers to focus on his career as chief operating officer of the PN media.“First of a...

The man who died after being hit by a car in Marsa on Monday has been identified, the police said.He is a 24-year-old man from Venezuela, the police said in a statement.His name is Jesus David Reina Quero, who worked as a chef.He had been in Malta fo...

His first goal was a nonchalant, outside-of-the-foot finish. His second was pretty much his trademark — fast feet outside the area and then a precise curler into the corner.Lionel Messi kept up his stellar pre- World Cup form to help ...

A 90-year-old man suffered grievous injuries in a traffic accident on Tuesday morning, police said.Police said in a statement that the accident happened at around 9:10am in Triq Hal Tarxien in Gudja.Preliminary investigations showed that the accident...

Minister for Social Policy and Children’s Rights Michael Falzon said Tuesday that in 2023 €1.95 billion will be spent on social expenditure.Addresing a press conference with the theme “Malta, Certainty and Stability,” Falzon ex...

 Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister of the year on Tuesday, tasked with taming an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious state and millions struggling to pay their food and energy bil...

28 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Tuesday, and no more deaths were recorded.The number of active cases in the country stands at 349.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 115,243 Covid-19 cases, of which 113,690 recovered. A total of...

During academic year 2020-2021, students enrolled in pre-primary, primary and secondary education totalled 58,047, a decrease of 0.4 per cent over the previous academic year, the NSO said.Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Formal Education: 2020-2021...

People around the world are reporting problems sending and receiving messages on the popular chat app WhatsApp.According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports, people started reporting problems around 3 a.m. EDT.A WhatsApp spokesperson said th...

As the October sun sets, all eyes turn to Parliament as the night of the Budget is upon us once again.It’s the first Budget of this legislature since the March 2022 general election, but it’s also the tenth consecutive budget under a Labo...

Prime Minister Robert Abela praised the Budget for offering support to people to combat the high cost of living, while also implementing measures which he said are ambitious and look towards the future."The future is bright," he said.He said that it ...

The impact of Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine on economies around the world is there for all to see. It is a difficult time, when prices and inflation are rising internationally and also locally.Everyone is in Europe is, in some way, being impacted.T...

The Cost of Living Allowance for 2023 will be €9.90, the highest it has ever been since its inception in 1990, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana announced in his Budget speech this evening.This will be given to all workers, pensioners, and those on...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said that the 2023 Budget is a 'Budget in the red,' describing the government's plan as one which continues to increase debt.Grech said that this Budget does not address the quality of life of the Maltese people, nor d...

Energy bills in Malta would have more than doubled had the government not intervened, the finance minister said on Monday.Delivering his budget speech, Clyde Caruana said that if the government had not stepped in to cushion the impact of rising globa...

In the Budget 2023 document, it was revealed that tax credits will be introduced on particular activities which support businesses and families, and that invest in sustainability and digitalisation. He said that plans were to reduce income tax, howev...

From 2023, new medicines and treatments will be introduced for free, including Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations, medicines for those suffering from multiple sclerosis, medicines treating the conditions of diabetes and osteoporosis, and updated...

Finance Minister Clyde Caruana hinted on Monday that more tough decisions are in the pipeline for Air Malta, but insisted that the country has and will still have a national airline.“Air Malta was a great challenge over the past two years. Deci...

Tax reduction schemes for first-time property buyers, second-time buyers and buyers of property in Gozo are to be extended for another year, the government revealed on Monday for the 2023 Budget. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said that the governmen...

The government will be introducing social assistance “with prudence and wisdom”. We are spending within our means, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said.“As Finance Minister I could have spent €1 billion in direct help. I am cert...

The government will be purchasing a €1.6 million CT scanner for St Vincent de Paul Home for the elderly, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said.Another €0.5 million will be spent on the renovation of St Joseph Hall while also investing in comm...

The Children’s Allowance will be increased by €90 per child, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said.Over the course of this legislature, the increase will be of €450. This measure will affect 41,000 families with 62,000 children, and wil...

Inflation is set to be the biggest challenge our country will face for the coming years, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said.While talking about the economic environment of Malta during his budget speech, Caruana explained that due to the Federal Res...

Another 1,200 electric charging points will be set up by 2024, the budget revealedCurrently there are already 340 such points around the country. Additionally, the government is hoping to encourage private companies and businesses to switch their fle...

Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said that in relation to the legal advancements Malta has made this year, more is yet to come in terms of addressing the inefficiencies of the court, addressing the framework for journalists and also increasing the numb...

Reactions have started to pour in as the government presented its budget for 2023.Malta Employers Association - A budget that is focused on short-term stabilityOn a macro scale, the main feature of the budget is government’s decision to sh...

Physical education lessons will be extended in 2023 and there will be an established minimum number of PE lessons, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana announced on Monday. Caruana said that there is already a pilot project underway where students have a d...

A man whose identity is still not known has died after being hit by a car in Triq Diċembru 13 in Marsa on Monday afternoon.The driver of the car, a Mercedes, is a 66-year-old Fgura man.A police spokesperson said that the accident happened at aro...

Those following the budget speech later today will realise that Finance Minister Clyde Caruana is this year carrying a red suitcase, instead of the traditional black. The briefcase utilised by Minister Caruana is a nod to Malta’s British p...

Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain’s next prime minister after winning the Conservative leadership race Monday — and now faces the huge task of stabilizing the party and country at a time of economic and ...

The Nationalist party has expressed its disappointment towards government’s decision to cut funds for the Richmond Foundation’s 24/7 mental health helpline.The Malta Independent on Sunday had reported that the €10,000 a month in gove...

The Nationalist Party expects the Prime Minister to publish his declaration of assets and that of his ministers and parliamentary secretaries before the Finance Minister presents the budget for 2023.In a statement signed by Karol Aquilina, the PN sai...

A planning application to excavate and construct 182 garages, 118 apartments and two shops in Marsascala is set to be discussed by the Planning Authority board on Thursday.The proposal is located in the area known as Zonqor within the periphery of th...

In the third quarter of 2022, the stock of licensed motor vehicles increased by 3,322 over the previous quarter. At the end of September 2022, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 422,576. Out of this total, 74.9 per cent were passenger cars...

A crane has toppled over in Sliema this morning, with no reports of injuries.The police confirmed that the crane toppled over in Tower Road.Officers are on site.

Today, Monday 24th October 2022, His Holiness Pope Francis appointed His Excellency Mgr Savio Hon Tai-Fai SDB, Titular Archbishop of Sila and currently Apostolic Nuncio in Greece, as the new Apostolic Nuncio in Malta, the Curia said in...

The Malta Union of Teachers said that the rector of St Albert the Great College is appointing a police officer to carry out some duties at the school, including serving as a supervisor to students.The college and the police have denied this.The MUT s...

Inflation in September rose to 7.52%, up from the 6.98% in August, the NSO said Monday.In September 2022, the annual rate of inflation as measured by the Retail Price Index was 7.52 per cent, up from the 6.98 per cent in August 2022.The 12-month movi...

Albert Buttigieg is the first candidate to apply to contest the election to replace the late Robert Arrigo in Parliament.Arrigo died last week.The St Julian's mayor announced on Facebook that he had filed his application to contest the casual electio...

Today is budget day. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana will head to Parliament and unveil the government’s proposed measures for next year.Over the past weeks unions, employers organisations, the opposition and others have issued their proposals f...

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Sunday he will not run to lead the Conservative Party, ending a short-lived, high-profile attempt to return to the prime minister's job he was ousted from little more than three months a...

Rescuers searched the waters near a southern Italian island Sunday for a 2-week-old baby girl reported missing after a migrant boat capsized.Italian authorities said the boat overturned a day earlier near the uninhabited islet of Lampione, part of th...

A damaged Korean Air plane remained stuck in the grass at a Philippine airport Monday after it overshot a runway in rainy weather the night before. No injuries were reported among the 162 passengers and 11 crewmembers who escaped from the a...

The president of the Malta Developers Association, Michael Stivala, disagreed that what Malta is experiencing is over-development, insisting that development must continue in order to stimulate the economy.In an interview with The Malta Independent o...

Some 500 yearly partial or full foot amputations take place in Malta every year, professors in the Department of Podiatry at University of Malta have said. Professors Alfred Gatt and Cynthia Formosa, along with a team of podiatrists and engineers, ar...

Social media was flooded with posts of condolences and messages of remembrance following the tragic passing of PN MP Robert Arrigo earlier this week.A prominent businessman and a pioneer in the travel and tourism industry, Arrigo served first as the ...

President of NGO Repubblika Robert Aquilina alleged that Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa has evidence of two people who obstructed the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigations in hand.Aquilina addressed a protest held on Sunday, where he issued a...

Government funds, which were being granted to the Richmond Foundation’s 24/7 mental health helpline, will be stopped in November, Richmond CEO Stephania Dimech Sant told The Malta Independent on Sunday.As concern over the growing number of suic...

"Von der Heyden Group's Real Estate development arm remains the principal activity of our Group, driving our growth ambitions and supporting the Group's diversification strategy. Over our 33-year history, the Von der Heyden development brand has been...

Infrastructure Malta said it will be submitting new plans to the Planning Authority for the Msida Creek Project development applications. Addressing a press conference, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Aaron Farrugia s...

A board has been appointed to investigate sexual harassment claims at the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO), a source close to the orchestra have said.Source said that an employee decided to seek alternative employment and resigned. In the resignati...

Floriana and Balzan produced no goals and few emotions in a low profile match, with both sides happy with the point earned at the end of the ninety minutes.It must be said however that although attempts at goals were few, these few chances could have...

Newcastle’s rise to becoming a team ready to compete in the Champions League seemed inevitable following the buyout of the northeast club by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund a year ago.Few predicted it would happen this quickly.With a...

José Mourinho’s physical Roma squad came closer than most teams have to keeping high-scoring Napoli out of the net.In the end, though, Napoli’s vast array of talented forwards again proved too much to handle.Victor Osimhen scored 1...

Lawyer Ann Fenech was on Friday elected as the new President of the Comite Maritime International ("CMI")  by the General Assembly of the CMI held in Antwerp. She was nominated by the Maritime Law of Association of Australia and New Zealand and ...

The two men who were each sentenced to 40 years in prison after they admitted to the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017, could be out by 2043-44, lawyer Joe Giglio told The Malta Independent on Sunday. The sentence was given on 14 Oc...

Max Verstappen and Red Bull started the United States Grand Prix determined to honor the memory of founder and team owner Dietrich Mateschitz and the racing powerhouse he built.Driver and team both delivered, overcoming self-inflicted race drama to c...

The budget is 'how we fulfil what we promised', Prime Minister Robert Abela said whilst delivering a speech in Naxxar.In explaining how the last months were instrumental for the Government to plan and carry out its objectives, he said that in the bud...

I expect the next budget to be a good one, PN Leader Bernard Grech on Sunday.During an interview on party media, he said that as from all the funds used to campaign the "propaganda" and convince many that this is going to be a great budget, "I am exp...

21 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Sunday, and no more deaths were reported.There are 349 active Covid cases in the country.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 115,197 Covid cases on the island, of which 113,644 recovered. A total ...

A woman died after she lost control of the bike she was riding and crashed, the police said Sunday.The accident took place in Mdina Road, Rabat, on Saturday at 5.30pm.The woman, aged 45, of Mgarr, was riding a Yamaha. She was later identified by TVM ...

Former museums director Fr Marius Zerafa has passed away at the age of 93.Dominican friar Zerafa is best known for his role in the recovery of  Caravaggio's St Jerome. His book, "The Stolen Caravaggio" told the story of how the painting had been...

Nearly 300 migrants disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto on Saturday after their rescue at sea in five different operations by the crew of a humanitarian vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders.About half of the 293 rescued passenge...

Malta yesterday paid its last respects to Robert Arrigo, a former deputy leader of the Nationalist Party, whose death sparked an outpouring of sorrow that transcended the political borders of a divided country.He was the first mayor of Sliema, the pr...

Clinton Buhagiar, 37, works as a ‘Channel Manager – Enterprise Group’ of a leading IT distributor. But he is more well known as a journalist on ONE, where he has been working for the past 20 years.He has produced and presented both ...

A Maltese resident, who is of English descent, found himself caught in the midst of the Russian bombing attacks in Kyiv on 10 October.He said that he experienced first-hand how drones blew up residential areas in the Ukrainian capital city.“I s...

Injections, culture shock and hygiene should not refrain someone from volunteering to help people in need abroad, a local volunteer says. Michaela Cassar Pickard, a volunteer from Karibu Malta (a non-profit group), spoke to The Independent on her vol...

Malta paid its last respects to former Nationalist Party deputy leader Robert Arrigo, who died last Tuesday, aged 67.The funeral was held at the St Julian's parish church and was followed by a private interment at the Addolorata Cemetery. Arrigo died...

Giorgia Meloni, whose party with neo-fascist roots finished first in recent elections, was sworn in Saturday as Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II, pledging to work to help Europe and the United States with common challenge...

A worker was critically injured on Saturday in a fall on a construction site, the police said.The worker, whose identity is unknown, was injured in a one-storey fall in Ugo Carbonaro Street, San Gwann.The accident took place at 11.30am.Magistrate Gab...

NGO Repubblika on Saturday presented a formal written complaint to PBS editor Charles Dalli and Head of PBS News Norma Saliba with regard to what the NGO said was "a misleading report" on the removal of Magistrate Nadine Lia.Repubblika claimed that t...

The Broadcasting Authority has refuted independent candidate Arnold Cassola's complaint on the lack of PBS reporting that Iosif Galea had been extradited from Italy to Germany.By doing so, the Broadcasting Authority is now openly endorsing the PBS po...

Moviment Graffitti, Animal Liberation Malta, Association for Abandoned Animals (AAA), Island Sanctuary, Animal Protectors Malta, Nature Trust Malta, Real Animal Rights Foundation (RAR), Extinction Rebellion Malta, Animal Guardians Malta, CSAF, Dolphi...

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