Malta
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Measure 100 times and cut once.
— Maltese proverb
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AUM Żonqor campus is ‘proceeding as planned’
It is business as usual for the American University of Malta, an AUM spokesman said in the wake of Simon Busuttil’s pledge last week to negotiate an alternative to the Żonqor campus when he is prime minister. The Opposition leader made the declaration last Saturday when unveiling the Nationalist Party’s environment ...
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Hunter in court for shooting eagle
A hunter from Mosta who last November made the headlines after allegedly shooting down a booted eagle, was back in court court today for the compilation of evidence after he was accused of having hunted the protected species. Justin Chetcuti had been filmed by Birdlife Malta members on November 2 in ...
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Households getting smaller, average family income rises to nearly €30,000
Households have gotten smaller, they have an average income of just under €30,000 and manage annual savings of €5,500, according to the Central Bank of Malta. The findings are found in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey for 2013, which the CBM released this week. The survey found that 37 per cent ...
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Next election will be held around March next year, PM says
The next election will be held around March next year, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on radio today.Speaking on Djalogu on One Radio, Dr Muscat said that the Labour Party’s programme will be the next step of the journey Malta has embarked upon in 2013.The Labour Party should be re-elected because ...
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Popular online programme INDEPTH gets banner overlay
The popular online programme INDEPTH pod-casted on demand on www.independent.com.mt has recently launched a new advertising platform which will give viewers the opportunity to receive instant commercial information while watching the programme in a discrete lower-third of screen banner format. The new digital advertising platform will offer clients who want ...
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AD vice-chairman calls for regulation of ‘revolving doors’ recruitment
The issue of revolving doors – the practice by which politicians are recruited by the private sector in areas that previously fell under the portfolio, or vice versa – should have been included in a law governing standards in public life, AD Vice Chairman Carmel Cacopardo writes in an opinion ...
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Malta named one of the top places to visit in 2017 by German newspaper
The Malta Tourism Authority is pleased to announce that one of Germany’s biggest newspapers, Welt am Sonntag, has chosen Malta as one of the top places to visit in 2017. This newspaper listed 12 countries which should be visited throughout 2017, with Malta placing second, just behind Montenegro.The article in ...
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Updated - Corruption index: Malta loses 10 places to 47, worst place ever, PN reacts
Malta has lost 10 places in one year on the Corruption Perceptions Index, falling to its worst ever 47th placing since it started to be monitored by Transparency International in 2004.The latest figures were published last night, with Malta dropping from the 37th place in 2015 to the 47th in ...
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Updated (2): New FIAU Director selected and will soon be announced, Minister Scicluna says
Minister Edward Scicluna said today that a new Financial Intelligence and Analysis unit chief will soon be announced.Asked when a new FIAU director will be appointed by PN MEP David Casa, the Minister said that the FIAU is legislated by law. “Legislation guards the FIAU's autonomy as well as what ...
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Updated (4): Pope takes over Knights of Malta after condom dispute
The Vatican said Wednesday it was taking over the embattled Knights of Malta lay Catholic order in an extraordinary display of papal power after the Knights' grand master publicly defied Pope Francis in a bitter dispute over condoms.The move marks the intervention of one sovereign state — the Holy See ...
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Court clears former ombudsman of defamation for publication of Judge Lino Farrugia letter
A court has cleared former Ombudsman Mr. Justice Joseph Said Pullicino of criminal defamation and libel of Judge Lino Farrugia Sacco. The case involved a 2012 letter sent to then President George Abela and was later published in the media. The letter suggested to President Emeritus Abela to suspend the ...
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Watch: Konrad Mizzi appears before EU Parliament energy committee on Presidency priorities
Controversial minister Konrad Mizzi's questioning by the EU Parliamentary committee regarding Malta's Presidency priorities has just begun.Minister Mizzi was found to have acquired a company in the secretive jurisdiction of Panama, an issue which has seen some of his ministerial colleagues face tough questions during their own committee grilling sessions. ...
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Witnesses identify accused as shooter of booted eagle
“The only person we saw with a gun in the area is the person in the video. We didn't see any other hunter,” a BirdLife volunteer told the court during the compilation of evidence in the case of a man accused of shooting a booted eagle. Joseph Chetcuti, 23 ...
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MFSA warning
The website http://www.fxddtrade.com/ is not licenced or authorised to provide any investment or financial service required to be licenced or authorised under Maltese law, the Malta Financial Services Authority said today. The authority said the website was misleading the public by using a name similar to that of an authorised genuine firm ...
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PANA Committee member questions why FIAU report on Konrad Mizzi has not been published
European Parliament Panama Papers Committee member Sven Giegold has questioned why the Maltese government would turn to an independent audit into the financial dealings of Minister without Portfolio Konrad Mizzi when a report penned by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) former CEO Manfred Galdes has remained unpublished.“Normally the State ...
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Editorial: A change of tune back to the environment
The Opposition Nationalist Party yesterday made a slight departure, or shall we say a detour, from its recent anti-corruption rallying cry and once again began to beat the environmental drum. This will undoubtedly be welcome news to the country’s ever-growing cadre of environmentally-minded citizens.It is not that too much can ...
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‘The worst part of being hit by a bullet… was telling my wife’ - honoured police officer
When you wear the badge of a police officer, a random day at work can get you a bullet or a spot in the limelight - and Police Sergeant Justin Spiteri, who was recently presented with the Police Officer of the Year award, has experienced both.In his case, it was ...
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Watch: PM Muscat should come to Europe with a very different attitude - EPP vice-chairman
Following the Prime Minister’s address to the EP earlier this week on the Maltese EU Presidency, a number of MEPs, both local and foreign, made comments on the Panama Papers and Malta’s ability to steer through anti-money laundering legislation. Newly elected EP President Antonio Tajani was also accused of backtracking ...
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EY: helping business reach beyond our shores
Do you know of any Maltese who have taken part in the competition abroad?Ronald Attard: This is the first time we are hosting the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in Malta. For someone to apply, they must be either Maltese or have a business located in Malta. So far, ...
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Revolving doors: John Dalli denies conflict of interest in Lowenbrau deal
Former PN Minister John Dalli denied being involved in a case of revolving doors when he went to work for Marsovin some years after he had, as minister, given land to the company in a deal that is now being described as ‘unusual’.In 1990 Mr Dalli, then Economic Affairs Minister, ...
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MATSEC statistics show current curriculum fails students – MUT president
“The current curriculum fails so many students,” Malta Union of Teachers President Kevin Bonello told The Malta Independent. Mr Bonello was responding to questions concerning the latest MATSEC statistics on this year’s matriculation results. The statistics revealed that roughly 32% of students who sit for their A-level fail to receive ...