Air Malta inaugurated today a twice weekly scheduled service to Sicily's capital and political centre, Palermo. This service will be operated in addition to the 15 weekly flights to the island's other...

On 23 March 2015, Opposition MPs requested the National Audit Office (NAO) to investigate grants allocated through the 2015 Local Councils' Capital Projects Fund. The terms of reference established by...

Around 340 members of the Malta Police Force are benefiting from a revision in their working shifts, following their own submitted requests Home Affairs and National Security Minister Carmelo Abela...

The Environment Ministry will shortly be publishing a legal notice that will eventually see the removal of air-conditioning units from Valletta’s façades, sources told The Malta Independent.The new law is the result of months of consultation both int...

A seminar entitled The Use of Lime in Our Built Cultural Heritage was organised recently by the Malta Centre for Restoration in collaboration with Arte Constructo, a Belgian firm that manufactures conservation products for the building industry....

Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party expressed its support to the Save Wied Garnaw Action Group in its appeal to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority to turn down the application to develop an inorganic waste separation plant and illega...

Nature Trust Malta is disappointed to hear of the latest hurdle faced by farmers who are producing organic vegetables. The farmers of organic products have been asked for a fee of Lm600 to cover their certification from the Malta Standards Authority....

The Malta Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise is particularly concerned by the section of the law – being debated in Parliament – stipulating that a worker injured at the workplace would not be eligible for an invalidity pension if the accident was a ...

Children in England were made to pray for Malta during the second-world-war, a tradition that was kept alive well after the conflict ended. “Malta was considered by children as such a heroic place,” actress Amanda Barrie told a group of journalists a...

Certainly Piavi Rasanen, recently elected leader of the Finnish Christian Democratic Party, does not fit the usual English language student profile. However, it is precisely the recent turn in her career that brought her to Malta to study English....