Former Prime Minister and Labour Party leader. Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici has passed away, the Labour Party said in a statement. He was 89.Mifsud Bonnici's niece Paula, who is a Nationalist Party MP, said on Facebook that the funeral will be held on Mond...

PN MP Paula Mifsud Bonnici was among the many who paid tribute to Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, who died on Saturday.Paula Mifsud Bonnici wrote on Facebook that the former prime minister was “a great uncle to all of us. We shall surely miss your sens...

Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa said that last year, there was a 35% decline in the number of cases of violence against police officers due to the implementation of bodycams.In an interview with Andrew Azzopardi on 103 radio station, Gafa spoke about...

The Kamra tal-Periti (Chamber of Architects) welcomes the announcement made by the Minister for Public Works and Planning, Dr Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi, regarding the imminent publication of draft regulations on licensing of contractors for public cons...

A bus without any passengers crashed into a wall of a construction site and into a petrol station in Mellieha early on Saturday, the police said.The bus, an Otokar Vectio, was being driven by a 41-year-old Indian man, resident in Qormi.He was driving...

The winners of the 2022 National Book Prize were announced earlier this evening during a private ceremony held at the National Museum of Arts (MUŻA) in Valletta, and attended by the Ministry for Education Permanent Secretary, Matthew Vella. The ...

The Attorney General should identify the individuals who have officially been spared prosecution in connection with the Pilatus Bank inquiry, the Nationalist Party said Friday.In a press conference outside the AG’s office in Valletta, Justice s...

The Nationalist party on Friday presented a motion to amend the Legal Notices so that Maltese and Gozitans receive back all the money which was stolen from the overcharging of electricity and water bills.Legal Notices 243 and 244 of 2022 must be amen...

Minister of Public Works and Planning Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi said that recommendations for Ħondoq ir-Rummien are outside the Planning Ministry's remit.The Malta Independent asked Zrinzo Azzopardi whether government will take the Qala Mayor&rsqu...

A man was seriously injured on Friday morning when he fell a height of one and a half storeys on a construction site.The police said the accident took place at 11am in Victor Denaro Street, Msida.The man, a 43-year-old Turk who lives in Msida, was ta...

A group of 141 residents from the Cottonera and surrounding area said they are "suffering severely" due to the Palumbo-MSC shipyard's operations, "which have been even worse than usual in recent weeks."They wrote a letter to the Environment and Resou...

With Russia’s war in Ukraine raging, Pope Francis joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders Friday in calling for the world’s great religions work together for peace, telling an interfaith summit that religion must never be used to just...

The Planning Authority will work to update policies which further respect the country's urban environment, Minister for Public Works and Planning Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi said.In a press conference on Budget measures for the planning sector, Zrinzo Az...

Tessie Aquilina who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease three years ago, has to ingest 22 pills each day, she told The Malta Independent.Parkinson’s disease is a brain disorder that causes unintended or uncontrollable movements, such a...

Twenty-two new Covid-19 cases were registered on Friday, health authorities said.The total number of cases registered is now 115,447, with 808 deaths.Statistics show that 113,927 people have recovered, while 316 cases remain active.The Health Ministr...

A cashier suffered light injuries after a man armed with a knife committed a robbery at a shop in Zebbug on Thursday evening.Police said that they were informed at around 7pm that there had been a robbery in a shop in Vjal il-Helsien in Zebbug on Thu...

A Maltese contractor and his employee have been jailed for causing the death of two women in 2004The contractor, who is the owner of a piece of land where construction work was ongoing which caused two flats in an adjacent apartment block to collapse...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are among a handful of players hoping for a final hurrah in what is likely to be their last World Cup appearance.Besides those two, there's also Robert Lewandowski, Luis Suárez, Luka Modric, Dani Alves, Manue...

There was a time when students chained themselves to the steel railings that used to surround the façade of the Auberge de Castille, the Prime Minister’s office.It happened in 1977, when the political strife in that highly-charged era ha...

Student enrolments in post-secondary and tertiary institutions during academic year 2020-2021 increased by 3.3% over the preceding academic year, totalling 27,944.Post-secondary students enrolled in sixth forms and other post-secondary institutions t...

Pope Francis urged Bahrain authorities on Thursday to renounce the death penalty and ensure basic human rights are guaranteed for all citizens as he arrived in the Sunni-led kingdom that has been accused by rights groups of systematic discrimination ...

Not every soccer star will be competing at the World Cup.Some big names will be missing from the tournament in Qatar because of injuries or because their countries didn't qualify.ERLING HAALAND (Norway)The 22-year-old Haaland has had a phenomenal sta...

Barely two weeks after their sensational courtroom admission to having planted and detonated the car bomb which claimed the life of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, her self-confessed killers are demanding that they be retried.Lawyers for George an...

An appeal against the refusal of a massive planning application at Ħondoq Bay has been rejected by the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal.The refusal brings to an end a five-year appeal period and a planning process which has lasted for 20...

Qala mayor Paul Buttigieg has spoken of his extreme satisfaction to this afternoon’s tribunal decision to throw out an appeal for a massive development at Ħondoq ir-Rummien, and said that the next step is for the government to expropriate ...

Bank of Valletta Group on Thursday announced the financial results for January to September 2022, reporting a loss before tax for the year to date amounting to €55.7 million. Excluding the effect of the settlement of the Deiulemar claim in May t...

CCTV footage shows how the victim of a deadly hit and run accident in Żejtun was thrown forward by a powerful impact, a court was told.The suspect’s car became visible in the frame immediately after, a police inspector testified today as t...

Police inspections in Xewkija on Wednesday led officers to discover 10 person living in the country illegally, the police aid in a statement.The inspections were carried out jointly with Trasport Malta and the Armed Forces of Malta.Drivers were booke...

The Bank of England made its biggest interest rate increase in three decades on Thursday, joining the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks worldwide in rapid hikes as it tries to beat back stubbornly high inflation fueled by Russia&rsquo...

Gozo’s largest illegal scrapyard located within the limits of Xewkija was early today the subject of a direct action operation by the Planning Authority (PA).The authority said in a statement that it used heavy vehicles to start removing what i...

Kieran Tierney blasted home a winner for Arsenal to seal the top spot in its group and advance to the round of 16 of the Europa League with a 1-0 victory over Zurich on Thursday.The Premier League leader needed a win in London to guarantee first plac...

Spain’s Pedri González will highlight the list of teenagers who could make an impact at the World Cup. Others include England’s Jude Bellingham, Germany’s Jamal Musiala and American teammates Gio Reyna and Yunus Musah.Al...

Government has launched the first national strategy and action plan on gender mainstreaming. Parliamentary Secretary for Reforms and Equality Rebecca Buttigieg launched the plan of action, with the aim of eliminating all forms of structural discrimin...

Infrastructure Malta (IM) has prepared a work plan with the local councils for residential roads, through which approximately 60km worth of residential road-building projects will be implemented per year.The agency is in consultation with t...

Pope Francis is bringing his message of dialogue with the Muslim world to the kingdom of Bahrain, where the Sunni-led government is hosting an interfaith conference on East-West coexistence even as it stands accused of discriminating against the coun...

A driver was hurt when he lost control of the car he was driving and crashed into a tree.The accident happened on Thursday at 6.15am in Mikiel Anton Vassalli Street, St Julian’s.The driver, a 35-year-old man from Xghajra, was taken to hospital ...

In the middle of the concrete jungle that is Argentina's bustling capital, a huge mural has emerged of Diego Maradona wearing a national team jersey, his right hand in a fist and a defiant expression on his face.The massive artwork, 148 fee...

It was 100 years ago that the national anthem was written.Based on music composed by Robert Samut, poet Dun Karm Psaila wrote the lyrics of what would become one of Malta’s symbols. Although first sang in 1922, it was only in 1964 that, with Ma...

The money laundering case against Pilatus Bank and its MLRO continued on Wednesday with another short sitting - the latest in a string of at least three where the prosecution failed to bring enough witnesses to fill the allotted time.Wednesday's summ...

Questions were raised in Parliament over whether Finance Minister Clyde Caruana broke the law by commissioning a red budget briefcase with Malta’s coat of arms emblazoned on it.The PN’s justice spokesperson Karol Aquilina asked Caruana wh...

Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo has refused to publish details about the beach concessions given to deckchair operators at Comino, Fra Ben and Ramla Bay, saying that the information is commercially sensitive and cannot be provided.In reply to a parl...

Around 1,300 families turned to Caritas Malta for support in the past year, while the organisation’s community centre has helped around 700 people battling drug addiction, Caritas Director Anthony Gatt said on WednesdayPrime Minister Robert Abe...

Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government Owen Bonnici said that there has been a 150% increase in the funds allocated on the art and culture sector in the recent Budget.Speaking in Parliament during the debate on the financia...

The National Audit Office has identified progress at Mount Carmel Hospital since it wrote a report with a number of recommendations in 2018, but still has concerns over the state of some of the hospital’s wards. Auditor General Charles Deg...

Prime Minister Robert Abela on Wednesday distanced himself from former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s connection with major developer Michael Stivala.Times of Malta reported last Sunday that payments were transferred to Muscat as part of a &ldq...

It took nine years for seven-time European champion AC Milan to finally win its way back into the Champions League knockout rounds with a 4-0 victory over Salzburg on Wednesday.Paris Saint-Germain’s quest for a first European title got potentia...

A study conducted by the Federation for Hunting and Conservation – Malta (FKNK) found that there were 73 illegalities in this year’s spring turtle dove hunting season for turtle doves.The spring hunting season ran for 14 half days, betwee...

The Nationalist Party (PN) is calling for the Minister responsible for the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) to take the necessary action against any people who knew about the sexual harassment case within the MPO, but stood by and did nothing.The o...

Closing off a year of global events, SiGMA Group is back on home turf for Malta Week. The week-long summit kicks off events from the 14th to the 18th of November, at the Malta Fairs and Convention Centre in Ta’ Qali. Althoug...

The Prime Minister has told Parliament in his official budget reaction that his government’s vision is the same as the vision of the Maltese and Gozitan people.Prime Minister Robert Abela began his official budget reaction by saying that Malta ...

Malta's road building projects have been a total policy failure, and have only benefited the few contractors involved, ADPD - The Green Party Secretary General Ralph Cassar said.Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia announced a new major investment in cr...

Thursday will see another step in the 20-year saga dominating one of the last frontiers of undeveloped and pristine land in Gozo.That is because the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT) within the Planning Authority is set to make a final ...

30 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Wednesday, and no more deaths were recorded.Currently, there are 324 active cases.Since the start of the pandemic, Malta has had 115,402 Covid-19 cases, of which 113,874 recovered. A total of 808 people have d...

The plans for the Msida Creek project is yet again fail to cater for the social and functional character of Msida, beyond being a junction for car traffic, NGOs said.A few days ago, Infrastructure Malta presented the revamped plans for the Msida Cree...

Air Malta said Tuesday that has achieved unprecedented levels of seat occupancy this year, as for five consecutive months between June and October it operated at a +90% network wide seat factor, carrying 1,100,000 passengers from and to the Maltese I...

An elderly man was critically injured after being hit by a vehicle whose driver kept on going, the police said.The accident took place in Censu Decandia, Luqa, on Tuesday at 5.30am.The man, aged 85, of Luqa, was given first assistance on site before ...

Three driving examiners have told a court that they had been instructed by their superiors to be extra lenient towards certain politically connected candidates.Magistrate Rachel Montebello presided as the compilation of evidence against Transport Mal...

A four-year-old girl was hospitalised after she fell a storey into a shaft, police said on Tuesday.Police said in a statement that the force was informed of the accident at around 3pm, having been told that a four-year-old girl had been taken to Mate...

President George Vella launched the 19th edition of the l-Istrina BOV Piggy Bank Campaign in aid of The Malta Community Chest Fund (MCCF). Present for the launch were Mrs Miriam Vella, the Minister for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innov...

A photo which is making the rounds on the social media shows rubble walls and cart ruts “conserved” in a garage under a block of apartments.The photo was uploaded on the Facebook page Ugly Malta, and picked up by independent candidate Arn...

On this day 5 years ago, DAR Bjorn, the first ever home for people with neurological conditions, was opened in Qormi by ALS Malta's Bjorn Formosa. Following Bjorn's recent recovery in hospital, he was admitted once again last week for an operati...

Tottenham and Eintracht Frankfurt both came from behind to win their respective games and secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League.At halftime in the final round of group matches on Tuesday, Marseille and Sporting Lisbon were going throu...

Environmentalists and developers have been going head-to-head for years,  is clear which side the politicians favour.Over the past couple of weeks, this newsroom interviewed President of the Malta Developers Association Michael Stivala, and thre...

The budget is the continuation of an economic plan 'that failed,' Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said in Parliament on Monday.He was delivering his official reaction to the budget for next year.Grech launched an attack on the government's handling o...

The Malta Strategic Partnership Projects Ltd (MSPP) on Monday announced a call for proposals from the private sector to rehabilitate the Chalet site in Tower Road, Sliema. The public call will close on 1st February 2023. This project is part of a wid...

Albert Buttigieg has taken his oath to become a member of parliament.Buttigieg was elected into Parliament on Friday through a casual election to fill the seat vacated by the late Robert Arrigo, who passed away the week prior.  Before being appo...

23 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Tuesday, and no more deaths were recorded.Currently, there are 329 active cases.Since the start of the pandemic, Malta has had 115,372 Covid-19 cases, of which 113,839 recovered. A total of 808 people have die...

The Malta Customs Department intercepted a shipment of 610kgs of cocaine at the Malta Freeport. The value of the drug s estimated at more than  €100 million.During the operation on Sunday, Customs officials stationed at the Freepo...

Emirates will be increasing the frequency of its Malta-Larnaca-Dubai route to a daily service starting 1 December 2022. This will bring the airline’s operations on this route back to pre-pandemic levels, signalling a steady recovery amid easing...

The senior official at the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra who admitted to sexually harassing a female former orchestra musician has been suspended, sources close to the orchestra told The Malta Independent.The 31-year-old Gozitan man, whose name cannot...

The Coalition for Gozo spoke against the development of Ħondoq Bay in Qala, Gozo, saying that a large-scale project will change the face of Gozo forever.In a statement, the Coalition for Gozo, which includes Din L-Art Ħelwa, Għawdix an...

 Participants of the 2022 Nescafé LifeCycle Challenge left Malta on 31 October 2022 to kick off this year's edition of the cycling challenge from Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, to Santiago in Chile in a bid to raise further ...

Works on the new waste management facility at the ECOHIVE Complex in Magħtab, has reached its final stages, the government said.This facility will be able to process up to 40,000 tonnes of recyclable waste, and as from next year, recyclable wast...

Albert Buttigieg’s election to Parliament last week leaves the Nationalist Party needing to mount a search for someone to replace him in the St Julian’s local council.Buttigieg – up until Friday, when he was elected into Parliament ...

Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia took up a challenge to join a fitness social media portal and the NGO Rota for a bicycle ride over the weekend, and used the occasion to announce a new major investment in creating a national cycle network.Farrugia s...

A survey, which is an annual one commissioned by the Malta Developers Association and carried out by KPMG, confirmed last week what was already quite apparent: that housing has become less affordable in recent years.Indeed the survey showed that betw...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four yea...

A motorcyclist and two other men were hospitalised on Sunday after being involved in two separate traffic accidents, police said on Monday morning.In a statement, the police said that the first accident happened at 1pm in Triq il-Kbira San Guzepp in ...

Military teams were hunting Monday for people missing after a century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into a river Sunday in the western Indian state of Gujarat, sending hundreds plunging into the water and killing at least 132 in one of the wo...

An attacker threw firebombs an immigration centre in the English port town of Dover on Sunday before killing himself, officials said. Two other people were lightly injured in the attack and over 700 migrants had to be relocated.The Kent Police force ...

Environmentalists have spoken up and accused developers of doing whatever they want because they have control over the policies being passed. When contacted, independent election candidate Arnold Cassola said that “developers have politicians i...

The fate of the beautiful Ħondoq Bay will be decided on Thursday when the Environment Planning Review Tribunal decides on the pending appeal.In a unanimous decision, the Planning Board had rejected the plans for a marina and intensive tourist vi...

It was 100 years ago that the national anthem of Malta was written, although it was only in 1964 that it was officially adopted when Malta obtained its Independence from the United Kingdom.Written in the form of a prayer to God, the lyrics were the w...

Certain court procedures and practices that are “relics” of a time when the courts used to handle a lower number of cases should be changed, Chamber of Advocates president Louis de Gabriele told The Malta Independent on Sunday, explaining...

PN spokesperson for Finance Jerome Caruana Cilia said that the recently announced Budget is a budget which does not address the challenges people are facing and is one without ambition and no long-term vision, lacking strategies and planning. Mixed r...

Fathers who are under 18 years of age are set to be recognised by law as a legal anomaly is about to be addressed, PL MP Amanda Spiteri Grech said.In a parliamentary session a few days ago, Spiteri Grech, who is a family lawyer by profession, said th...

A mass of mostly young people among tens of thousands who gathered to celebrate Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said that arrogance is synonymous with Prime Minister’s Robert Abela’s government, which does not truly care about the people. Speaking at a PN political activity in Zurrieq, Grech said that Malta and its p...

We had not heard the word for quite a while.It was mentioned only once in the Budget speech last Monday, but it was enough to spark its use.“Our heart was, still is and will remain socialist,” Finance Minister Clyde Caruana declared in hi...

Hamrun Spartans came from behind to beat Gzira United in a top of the table clash.For the Maroons this was the first defeat of the season as Hamrun claimed their eighth victory of the season.The Spartans have now opened a seven-point gap at the top o...

David de Gea may appear surplus to requirements for Spain but he remains pivotal to Erik ten Hag's plans at Manchester United.The goalkeeper was outstanding in United's 1-0 win against West Ham at Old Trafford on Sunday, producing three spectacular s...

Defending champion AC Milan fell to a surprise second loss of the season in Serie A with a 2-1 defeat at Torino on Sunday.Koffi Djidji and Aleksei Miranchuk netted in two first-half minutes for the hosts before Junior Messias pulled one back for Mila...

It quickly became clear this would be the season that Max Verstappen set the record for most wins in a Formula One season.It was never a question of if the Dutchman would win 14 races.It was only a question of when.And now? By how much will Verstappe...

Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito Mussolini as they marched to the slain Italian dictator’s crypt Sunday, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise t...

As many would say, volunteering freshens up the mind with new perspectives and ideas.The same thing happened to 19-year-old Elena Attard, who after being raised on the small island of Gozo and moving on from one scholarship to another, is now in Indo...

A 22-year-old man was hospitalised after suffering injuries in a traffic accident in Gudja on Saturday night.Police said that they were informed of the accident at around 10:30pm in Triq Hal Tarxien in Gudja.Preliminary investigations showed that the...

Flimkien Ghal Ambjent (FAA), together with the Malta Planners' Association, the Malta Touristic Association as well as Moviment Graffiti, have slammed what they described as touristic over-development that is taking place in St Julian’s.The NGO...

An 88-year-old Toronto woman was stranded in Malta, 7,600 kilometres from home, after a medical emergency and a fruitless search for a hospital bed in the Greater Toronto Area, Canadian media report.Mike Pace’s mother, Carmen, was on vacation o...

Russia announced Saturday that it will move to suspend its implementation of a U.N.-brokered grain deal that has seen more than 9 million tons of grain exported from Ukraine during the war and has brought down soaring global food prices.The Russian D...