Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff, Keith Schembri, and former tourism minister Konrad Mizzi were detained by financial crime police and interrogated for hours between Tuesday and...

The hospitality industry will be of top priority during the revaluation of the COVID-19 wage supplement scheme, Tourism Minster Julia Farrugia Portelli told this newsroom. In the presentation of...

Health Minister Chris Fearne has said that he is yet to see the details of a government-organised Christmas event which was announced this morning, and hence cannot comment on it. Fearne was...

Malta’s Covid-19 reproduction number now stands at 1.50 after the number of cases found in the past week increased, statistician Vincent Marmara told The Malta Independent on Sunday in his...

President of Malta George Vella appealed to the authorities concerned to take the necessary action so that, when possible, the Ombudsman’s recommendations are implemented.  During a...

Flu vaccinations will resume in the second half of November, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne told journalists on Wednesday. Fearne was asked for an update as to the...

Health Minister Chris Fearne has shot down the concept of the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) introducing a temporary licence for those snacks bars which operate like a restaurant. "A legal notice...

A man from Serbia was arrested in Pieta’ last night in a police operation that took six hours....

Parliamentary Secretary for Financial Services and Digital Economy Clayton Bartolo does not believe that the recent Las Vegas trip revelations will have any effect on the Moneyval evaluation. "I...

The past week saw a decrease in the number of new Covid-19 cases but also the highest number of Coronavirus deaths, statistician Vince Marmara said in his weekly video blog for The Malta Independent...