Former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri will continue testifying this morning following a dramatic sitting yesterday.Tuesday's court hearing was a blistering one that ran well past the usual 6pm cutoff point.Keith Schembri first spent hours answerin...

Gżira mayor Neville Chetcuti has expressed caution over three proposed high-rise developments planned around the former Empire Stadium area, warning that projects of such scale must be assessed carefully to determine their impact on residents, i...

Former Office of the Prime Minister chief of staff Keith Schembri told jurors on Tuesday that Johann Cremona had been offered up to €400,000 by Yorgen Fenech's lawyers to testify in the businessman's favour, only for the witness to repeatedly re...

Former Office of the Prime Minister chief of staff Keith Schembri on Tuesday described his long-standing friendship with Yorgen Fenech, denied ever having had business dealings with him, and rejected suggestions that he had inside knowledge of the in...

Malta's population debate has been at the centre of the political agenda for years. Congested roads, crowded public spaces, pressure on healthcare, housing, schools, utilities and other essential services are no longer isolated problems. Together the...

The Nationalist Party will be filing a request for Parliament's Public Accounts Committee to discuss the National Audit Office's report into the spate of power cuts which enveloped Malta in 2023, days after Malta emerges from another similar spate of...

Labour Qormi councillor Daniel Ablett, 35, was granted bail after pleading guilty to several charges related to an incident involving a LESA officer in Valletta, while contesting the most serious accusation against him.Earlier in the day, the Labour ...

Yesterday evening, firefighters from Station 4 responded to an abandoned vehicle on fire in a field in Dingli, the Civil Protection Department said on its Facebook page.The fire was brought under control and the surrounding area was made safe. No inj...

On Tuesday afternoon, firefighters from Stations 2, 4 and 11 responded to a fire inside an abandoned building in Gżira, the Civil Protection Department said on its Facebook page.The fire was successfully brought under control, and no injuries we...

On the 7 July 2026, the First Hall Civil Court (the Court) presided over by Mr Justice Henri Mizzi delivered judgment in the names Joseph Caruana, Carmel Sciortino and Alexander Sciortino (the "Plaintiffs") vs Kazin San Guzepp & Banda De Rohan A....

The process to renew around 160,000 identity cards has been successfully completed by Identità, the Employment Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.During a visit to Identità, Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Employment Jona...

Momentum said it has filed a Freedom of Information request related to the number of heat-related deaths and hospital adminssions in July, when Malta was going through a prolonged heat-wave.The FOI request, the party said, seeks information on the nu...

 French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux. The blaze in the Gironde region has bu...

Malta's Minister for Home Affairs and Security, Glenn Bedingfield, met Italy's Home Affairs Minister, Matteo Piantedosi reaffirming the strong and longstanding relationship between the neighbouring Mediterranean countries.In a bilateral meeting Tuesd...

There comes a point when repeated incidents can no longer be dismissed as isolated events. Malta appears to have reached that point. The scenes witnessed in recent weeks - groups of revellers disturbing residents in the early hours of the morning, br...

Construction of the new Organic Processing Plant has officially begun, with site mobilisation, excavation works, and the construction of a perimeter retaining wall already in progress, the government said Tuesday.These works are being carried out in ...

Roberto Mancini has once again been tasked with revitalizing an Italy team in crisis, almost exactly three years after he bolted on the national team.Italian soccer federation Giovanni Malagò announced Mancini as the new Italy coach on Tuesday...

Zinedine Zidane is France's new coach, replacing Didier Deschamps at the helm of the team he led to glory as arguably its greatest ever player.French Football Federation president Philippe Diallo announced Zidane's appointment at the FFF headquarters...

Police officers conducting a search at Keith Schembri's Mellieħa residence in November 2019 only collected electronic devices pointed out by Schembri himself, despite other phones being visible inside the house, a jury hearing the trial of Yorge...

The President of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, William Spiteri Bailey, told Prime Minister Robert Abela and several ministers that "Malta deserves better growth" during a ministerial meeting scheduled to discuss the government's priorities over this...

The government this week will publish revised regulations governing the classification of farmers and livestock breeders, with Prime Minister Robert Abela saying the changes will simplify procedures and ensure support is targeted at those who depend ...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has said that he has full faith in Energy Minister Miriam Dalli, amid calls for her to resign after thousands of residents across Malta suffered through a spate of power cuts in the last week.While answering journalists' q...

Parliament has been adjourned until 5 October for its summer recess.The announcement marks the start of Parliament's summer recess, with the House expected to resume its sittings on 5 October, with the Budget for 2027 likely to be among the first app...

Police officers searching Keith Schembri's Mellieħa home in the aftermath of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation only seized electronic devices identified by Schembri himself, after receiving instructions from a senior police officer...

Two young men were brought before the Magistrates' Court on Monday following an early-morning altercation in Paceville that resulted in an injured police officer.One was handed a two-year probation sentence and a €2,000 fine while the other rema...

Gregory O'Brien, 43, and his five-year-old son Logan died instantly after the dinghy they were travelling in was struck by a boat off Ġnejna Bay early on Sunday, an autopsy has concluded.The post-mortem examination found that both father and son...

The Nationalist Party has accused the government of failing to adequately plan investment in the electricity network and called on Energy Minister Miriam Dalli to shoulder responsibility and resign.Addressing a news conference, Shadow Minister for En...

The Franciscan friars at Ta' Ġieżu church in Valletta have defended their integrity amid controversy over their objections to entertainment venues operating in the area, insisting their concerns are based on years of complaints from residen...

Around 10,000 people attending this year's Isle of MTV concert travelled home using public transport or ferry services, according to Sustainable Mobility Minister Chris Bonett, who said the event demonstrated growing public confidence in alternative ...

The distribution of wealth is a focus that the Labour Party's new CEO Ivan Falzon would like to focus on."The Labour Party's foundation has always been, still is, and always will be people who were not necessarily born under a lucky star," he said in...

Andrea Pirlo is out of contention for the Italy job amid political concerns over a sponsorship deal with a Russian betting firm.The flap over Pirlo reportedly has Paolo Maldini considering stepping down just 16 days into his new job as the technical ...

Malta's planning system is operating without a clear direction, PN MP and Shadow Minister for Planning Rebekah Borg said, adding that before the country can reform its planning laws, it must first answer one fundamental question: where does it want t...

A man suffered grievous injuries following an in Għajn Tuffieħa Road, Mġarr, on Sunday, the police said.The police immediately went to the scene, where it was established that a traffic accident had occurred between a Voge motorcycle, ...

The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said.Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was k...

PN Head of Delegation in the European Parliament David Casa has written to the Commissioner of Police urging the Malta Police Force to strengthen enforcement in Valletta, particularly around churches and other sites of historical, cultural and religi...

For the better part of the past week, Malta suffered through yet another heatwave, which caused yet another spate of debilitating power cuts.The first heatwave of 2026 began on Thursday 16th July, when temperatures reached 38.1°C. Although the te...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said Enemalta has been instructed to "significantly accelerate" works to strengthen the electricity distribution system, while describing the recent power outages experienced across Malta as "inexcusable."Speaking in an in...

John Agius pleaded not guilty to charges of arson and attempted homicide after allegedly opening fire on police officers during a standoff in St Julian's that lasted more than two hours on Friday.On Sunday morning, inspectors told the court that the ...

A 43-year-old man and his five-year-old son from St Paul's Bay lost their lives in a tragic maritime accident after the dinghy they were travelling in was struck by a boat off Ġnejna Bay in the early hours of Sunday.Police said the incident happ...

The Nationalist Party has accused Prime Minister Robert Abela of attempting to shift responsibility for recent nationwide electricity outages onto Enemalta instead of accepting political accountability for government's handling of the country's energ...

Police have confirmed that eight-year-old Khyl Agius Bonavia and Lorraine Bonavia have been found, bringing an end to a weeks-long search that prompted repeated public appeals for information.In a press statement issued Saturday, the Malta Police For...

A police sergeant was injured after being assaulted while responding to an incident in St Julian's early on Sunday morning.The police said the incident happened at around 4am when police officers intervened in an argument involving four Maltese natio...

When Labour sought a fresh mandate in May, it did so under the slogan "Il-ħolma tiegħek, il-proġett tagħna" - Your dream, our project. It was an ambitious promise. It suggested a government committed to improving lives, raising li...

The Labour Party does have debt in its name, but is in a solid financial position with more assets than liabilities, the Labour Party's new CEO Ivan Falzon told The Malta Independent on Sunday in an interview.Falzon has been in the post for two weeks...

Rather than spending the election campaign knocking on the doors of the Nationalist Party's traditional supporters, PN MP Rebekah Borg took what she describes as a calculated risk, directing almost all of her efforts towards non-voters and floating v...

A young woman who swapped a career in private finance for the discipline of the Armed Forces of Malta says her five months of recruit training pushed her further than she ever imagined, telling The Malta Independent on Sunday what it means to be one ...

Lando Norris ended an eight-month wait by "flying" to a Formula 1 victory with strong pace and a dose of good fortune at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.The defending champion was on pole but lost the lead to his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri whe...

Alex Borg's confirmation as Nationalist Party leader was never in doubt. As the sole candidate seeking to remain at the helm, his endorsement was always expected. What was not expected was the scale of that endorsement. Receiving the backing of 98% o...

Momentum has criticised Tourism Minister Jo Etienne Abela's response to the recent nationwide power cuts, arguing that the government's reaction highlights a failure to plan for predictable challenges such as climate change and growing demand on Malt...

A van slammed into people gathered for Berlin's famed Pride festival on Saturday night, killing one person, injuring at least 16 others and prompting police to call off the celebrations and a concert in the German capital hours after they had begun.B...

France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday and slashed the final stage of Tour de France to redeploy security personnel to the blazes that forced tens of thousands of people ...

The Yorgen Fenech trial on Saturday was dominated by digital evidence and the search of Keith Schembri's Castille office, with forensic expert Keith Cutajar explaining the complexities of recovering electronic evidence before jurors were shown police...

Digital forensics expert Keith Cutajar spent hours defending the integrity of the electronic evidence gathered in the investigation into Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder, while the afternoon sitting saw jurors shown video footage of the police search ...

The 74-year-old St Julian's resident arrested following Friday's shooting of two police officers in Ta' Giorni is scheduled to face court on Sunday morning. John Agius was taken into custody after a 90-minute standoff involving a fire at a nearby con...

Home Affairs Minister Glenn Bedingfield said Saturday he could not accept that a police officer who had simply gone to work to protect society ended up in hospital fighting for his life, describing Friday's shooting as a stark reminder that respect f...

Two police officers were trapped inside the yard of a St Julian's residence for around 20 minutes during Friday's shooting siege, Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà revealed, as he disclosed fresh details about the operation that ended with the a...

A €150 on-the-spot fine for public urination in Paceville turned into a police chase and ended with two French teenagers pleading guilty to a string of offences in court.Nineteen-year-old French nationals Shawn Dominati and Elyes Franck Bauchet ...

Valletta Empire Pharmacy, 77, Triq it-Teatru l-Antik; Ħamrun Fra Diego Dispensary, 94, Triq Villambrosa; Qormi Brown's Pinto Pharmacy, 43, Triq San Bastjan; Birkirkara Remedies Pharmacy, Triq Tumas Fenech; San Ġwann Lourdes Pharmacy, Triq i...

A 53-year-old Italian restaurateur who was extradited to Malta under a European Arrest Warrant to face allegations of more than €2.4 million in tax fraud and money laundering has been granted bail.Giuseppe Napolitano, the owner of the Storie e S...

Prime Minister Robert Abela, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Ian Borg and Minister for Equality and Civil Rights Rosianne Cutajar, visited the ART Clinic and the IVF Laboratory at Mater Dei Hospital to observe firsthand t...

While the Malta Tourism Authority emphasises "achieving excellence in every aspect of tourism", and the Government speaks, in fine words, about shifting tourism from quantity to quality, the facts are increasingly showing precisely the opposite, the ...

The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) said Saturday it welcomed the clear political direction towards stronger enforcement against anti-social behaviour. The strengthening of on-the-spot fines is a positive step that sends the right mes...

The widespread power outages experienced across Malta this week during an intense heatwave have exposed the vulnerability of both our electricity infrastructure and built environment, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar said Saturday.Reports of people sleepi...

"We have been betrayed" NGOs said Friday as they protested against the Planning Authority decision to sanction illegal padel courts on Manoel Island following a protest organised by Moviment Graffitti on Friday evening.During the demonstration, Flimk...

Defending Formula 1 champion Lando Norris took his first pole position of 2026 when he snatched it from Lewis Hamilton by just 0.012 of a second at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday.Hamilton was on course for a record-extending 105th pole position...

A police boat responding to a report of a person in the River Thames crashed into Westminster Bridge in central London on Friday, launching officers into the water and injuring five of them, the Metropolitan Police said.Paramedics treated the wounded...

Friday's sitting in the trial of Yorgen Fenech was dominated by explosive testimony from two witnesses, with Johann Cremona accusing one of the defence lawyers of meeting Keith Schembri on the eve of the former chief of staff's testimony, and former ...

Two police officers were injured, one of them seriously, after an armed man opened fire on officers during a tense hours-long standoff in St Julian's on Friday, before eventually surrendering to police.The seriously injured officer was shot in the ne...

The two police officers who were injured in St Julian's this morning have been identified as Omar Sharif and Johann Vella.A police spokesperson reported that one of the officers is in very serious condition after sustaining gunshot wounds to the face...

After a tense two hours of shootings and negotiations, this is the moment that a St Julian's man surrendered to the police.The bottom part of Birkirkara Hill today was the scene of drama as two police officers were shot, with one of them injured seri...

The FIFA World Cup has come and gone.  Spain emerged victorious with a tournament performance that was beyond anything else clinical. They played their opponents off the pitch, including in the tournament's final against Argentina, where th...

Massive forest fires forced the evacuation of some 200,000 people in southwestern France and central Spain on Friday, with residents fleeing towns near Madrid and Bordeaux as the flames raged out of control.Firefighters and authorities in both Europe...

The trial by jury of businessman Yorgen Fenech took another dramatic turn on Friday morning when prosecution witness Johann Cremona alleged that one of Fenech's defence lawyers had met former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri on the eve of the latter...

Home Affairs Minister Glenn Bedingfield has expressed his support for police officers who were injured in an incident in St Julian's on Friday morning, saying his thoughts are with them and their families.In a Facebook post, Bedingfield said his thou...

An elderly man aged over 80 has died after falling into the sea in Buġibba on Friday morning.Police said the incident occurred at around 10:30am while the man was sitting by the water's edge. Initial information indicates that he may have suffer...

The Malta Police Union (MPU) has issued an urgent appeal for blood donations following an operation in St Julian's in which a police officer was seriously injured after an armed man opened fire on them during a tense hours-long standoff. In a st...

President Donald Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night, delivering a rambling, hour-long speech that praised some journalists, took potshots at others, made jokes about public figures' weight an...

The Interdiocesan Commission for the Promotion of Integral Human Development on Friday expressed deep concern over the widespread electricity disruptions, warning that they are far more than an inconvenience as they are endangering health and undermi...

The Association of Catering Establishments (ACE) has published that, according to a PwC study it commissioned, in the first quarter this year, just over four fifths (81%) of catering establishments answered that they are open to tapping into EU funds...

 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Ian Borg welcomed 138 newly graduated doctors on Friday who are starting to work and train in government hospitals and other healthcare facilities, as part of the Malta Foundation Programme.Through ...

Abner Aquilina has been jailed for one year and fined €4,000 after being found guilty of attacking a psychiatrist at the Forensic Unit of Mount Carmel Hospital.Meanwhile, in a separate judgment delivered on the same day Aquilina was acquitted of...

Leader of the Opposition and Partit Nazzjonalista Alex Borg has written to the Chairperson of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD), requesting that an urgent meeting of the Council be convened to discuss the national electric...

Visitors who do not reside in Malta and are issued fines totalling €200 or more could have their permission to remain in the country withdrawn and be removed before the end of their holiday under a new legal notice aimed at strengthening public ...

A fire in the common area of an apartment building in Żebbuġ led to a swift emergency response from the Civil Protection Department, local police, and medical personnel.Thick smoke rapidly filled the structure, prompting a precautionary eva...

The true test of any penalty is not how severe it appears on paper, but whether it changes behaviour.When an offence continues to occur repeatedly, despite the sanctions that exist to prevent it, it is fair to ask whether the system is still serving ...

The European Commission has approved an advance payment of €931,014 to Malta from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to support recovery efforts following the damage caused by Storm Harry earlier this year, while a final decision on the c...

Johann Cremona spent hours distancing himself from secretly recorded conversations played before jurors on Thursday, acknowledging contact with former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri while insisting that many of the statements he made about the mur...

Johann Cremona continued his testimony before the jury in the trial of businessman Yorgen Fenech on Thursday, with much of the morning devoted to secretly recorded conversations between Cremona and self-confessed middleman Melvin Theuma.Throughout hi...

A major firefighting operation that lasted more than 18 hours came to an end on Thursday morning after Civil Protection Department crews successfully extinguished a blaze that broke out at a commercial premises on Wednesday afternoon.Following an upd...

Power has been restored in Valletta but Enemalta engineers are still working on other areas to repair faults that have caused widespread disruption over the past days, the company said Thursday.Enemalta's engineers and technicians have just "finalise...

A substation in St Julian's which caught fire in recent days is expected to  be back in service within the next few days, Enemalta has said.Enemalta representatives met with St Julian's council members to provide an update on the works at the Th...

The NGO Repubblika has said that it is deeply disappointed that, "after years of dragging its feet and repeated recommendations from international institutions, Malta has once again failed to establish a National Human Rights Institution compliant wi...

The Planning Authority's decision to grant a permit to Sharlon Pace for 30 padel courts on archaeological remains on Manoel Island, 20 of which were built illegally, has cast the future of the whole island into serious doubt, NGOs said Thursday. By s...

A Court of Appeal has exhaustively confirmed that private land in St Paul's Bay was abusively expropriated by the state, simply to enable private developers to change a dead-end street into a double-fronted road for unobstructed sea views.The two jud...

A child-protection professional gave detailed evidence about concerns involving eight-year-old Khyl Agius Bonavia only hours before he and his mother, Lorraine Bonavia went missing.The testimony, delivered on 11 June 2026, provided a window into the ...

The Criminal Court of Appeal has annulled the conviction of a woman found guilty of procuring her own abortion, ruling the original judgment was legally defective and ordering the case to be heard again by the Court of Magistrates.The court found the...

The Chamber of Engineers has expressed concern over the ongoing power interruptions affecting communities across Malta and Gozo, while urging a renewed focus on strengthening the long-term resilience of the country’s electricity infrastructure....

The Nationalist Party has called for special financial compensation to be awarded to Enemalta workers who have been directly involved in emergency operations during Malta's ongoing electricity crisis, praising their efforts in restoring power supplie...

In 2025, the total number of inbound and domestic tourists who visited the Gozo and Comino region was 589,343. Domestic tourists accounted for 67.4 per cent of total tourism demand within this region, the NSO said Thursday.The total number of inbound...

Katy Perry made her Malta debut at Isle of MTV Malta 2026, bringing her acclaimed European summer tour to Il-Fosos Square for a full headline concert alongside dance music powerhouse AFROJACK and Maltese star AIDAN. Now in its 18th year and staged by...