A 26-year-old Bulgarian woman, living in Gzira, today admitted to charges of loitering for prostitution. Inspector Joseph Busuttil said that officers of ice squad were patrolling around Gzira and...

A 24-year old man who was involved in a fatal car crash that cost the lives of an elderly British couple was today handed a suspended sentence.  The incident took place on 12 December 2009, when...

For 9 weeks during November and December an Anticyclone which formed over North Africa stood still over Malta.   Temperatures were raised for more than five degrees above average.  Winter...

Magistrate Joe Mifsud today criticised what he said was a recurrence of episodes in which witnesses were being accused of perjury as soon as a discrepancy is found in a their testimony. Three...

The Birgu Ditch project undertaken by the Restoration Directorate was inaugurated today by Minister for Justice, Culture and Local Government, Owen Bonnici, and Parliamentary Secretary for the EU...

A member of the monetary panel for the European capital of culture, Dr Ulrich Fuchs, has recommended that the local team should “create more opportunities to meet local stakeholders,”...

A recently retired AFM colonel who is involved in three private security companies was never given approval to “engage in security related private work” by the army, this newspaper has...

The announced increase to the National Minimum Pension will come into effect this week, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced this morning. The rise, he said, was the first step towards a decent...

Law commissioner Franco Debono and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia were involved in a heated exchange on The Malta Independent website early this morning. The exchange took place via comments...

A spokesperson for the Home Affairs Ministry has categorically denied claims that two inmates were hospitalised yesterday due to a drug overdose. Sources told The Malta Independent that there was...