Malta
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Measure 100 times and cut once.
— Maltese proverb
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‘Economy growth took infrastructure by surprise’ – Prof Edward Scicluna
Malta has lower than average EU spending on transport. Some have argued that the allocation of funds in the 2017 budget is inadequate in view of the traffic problems plaguing the nation. What is your reaction to this?I would place this issue within the broader infrastructure issue. We are having ...
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Justice Minister reveals €310,300,500 generated from controversial IIP scheme
Justice Minister Owen Bonnici revealed that the controversial Individual Investment Programme has generated €310,300,500 for Malta. He assured the public that this money will be enjoyed by all, and not just a few.Dr Bonnici said this during the budget estimate speech for his portfolio of culture, justice and local government.In ...
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AFM promotions: Ombudsman’s legal victory against Home Minister confirmed on appeal
The court of appeal today confirmed that the Ombudsman has authority to investigate complaints by army officers.The case had been instituted by former Ombudsman Joseph Said Pullicino against the Home Affairs Minister and permanent secretary.The first court, presided by Mr Justice Lawrence Mintoff, had rejected the arguments made by then ...
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Malta’s Central Bank Governor rebukes German Finance Minister Schäuble
Malta's new central bank governor has rejected claims that European Central Bank policy has fuelled populism, saying that Europe's economies are healthier and less susceptible to extreme politics thanks to ECB intervention.His comments, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, are a direct rebuke to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who ...
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Watch: Businessman killed in St Paul's Bay car bomb explosion, parts of car end up on roofs
A businessman has been killed in an explosion that took place in St Paul's Bay this morning. The blast was most likely caused by a car bomb. The explosion took place in Triq Paderborn.The man, John Camilleri known as Giovanni tas-Sapun, aged 67, was certified dead on site. He was driving ...
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Editorial: Malta’s terrible Grigal strikes again
So many things happened yesterday – Italy’s terrible earthquake, a quake near Malta and then an explosion in a Gudja field that echoed the explosion today week when the small plane crashed – that people would be justified to forget Saturday’s awful Grigal.Yesterday’s papers were full of pictures from the ...
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Budget 2017: The PN Opposition offers no alternative, fresh proposals for Gozo – Anton Refalo
Gozo Minister Anton Refalo said that for the Gozitan dream to come true, the government needs to work in a team. "We have assisted for an hour and a half harsh criticism from the Opposition and I am very worried at the lack of credibility which the PN offers," he ...
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Marsascala mayor defends Jerma high-rise plans; ‘better to build upwards than sideways’
Marsascala Mayor Mario Calleja has defended a proposal that would see the construction of three towers, the tallest being 44 floors, on reclaimed land on the site of the former Jerma hotel. The Malta Independent on Sunday spoke to Mr Calleja on Thursday, one day before the Planning Authority said ...
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Family minister denies tax swap for RFP on social housing, then says ‘not technically a tax swap'
Family Minister Michael Farrugia has vehemently denied that the Request For Proposals (RFP) on the provision of social housing amount to a tax swap. The offer chosen from the RFP scheme however is for five applicants to sell their property to the government, and from the earnings generated they would ...
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125 apartments considered in tax-for-property swap
The government is currently negotiating with two building contractors to acquire some 125 apartments to be used for social housing purposes, Social Solidarity Minister Michael Farrugia confirmed this afternoon. However, he refused to call the scheme a "tax swap" and instead said "the government will be giving a cheque to the ...
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Ombudsman has right to investigate complaints by army officer, Appeal Court confirms
A judgment confirming the Ombudsman’s authority to investigate complaints by army officers was today confirmed by the Court of Appeal. The case had been instituted by the Ombudsman Joseph Said Pullicino against the Home Affairs Minister and permanent secretary Kevin Mahoney. The dispute revolved around a number of controversial promotions handed out ...
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‘We are dealing with humans not categories’ - New Refugee Commissioner interviewed
Martine Cassar, a lawyer and former head of the International Organisation on Migration office in Malta, has just been appointed Refugee Commissioner. In her first interview, she tells Philip Leone-Ganado her guiding principles in deciding which migrants qualify for protection – and what Europe needs to do to address the ...
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Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri do not respond to questions on fresh allegations
Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Keith Schembri have not responded to questions on fresh allegations raised by the Opposition. The allegations surround the proximity of the dates on which the Vitals Global Healthcare hospital privatisation agreements were signed and Panama Papers correspondence dated just a ...
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Prime Minister says Labour will always be against second pillar of pensions
The Labour Party will always be against the Second Pillar pension as proposed by the PN government in past years, Prime Minister and Labour leader Joseph Muscat said this morning.Speaking at Zebbug, Dr Muscat revisited the principles behind this year's Budget and insisted it forms part of a carefully-planned series ...
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Police ‘not ruling out’ charging former Prime Minister’s daughter, her son and Romanian man
Monday night’s triple stabbing incident in Tarxien that involved Yana Mintoff, the daughter of former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, her son Daniel and a Romanian national remains shrouded in mystery, with the police offering very little information and with no charges having been pressed five days after the altercation.The violent ...
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Editorial: The right decision… in the end
Malta’s constitutional neutrality is being increasingly called into question these days – from the country’s arguably correct stance during the Libyan revolution to the surveillance missions that have purportedly been undertaken by French forces, as revealed this week after their ‘spy plane’ went down in a ball of flames over ...
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Joseph Muscat is the worst thing to happen to Malta since the plague - Salvu Mallia
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is a "parasite" who only wants to "please Labour Party members and its inner circles" according the newly announced PN Candidate Salvu Mallia.Speaking in Victoria, Gozo the PN candidate for second and twelfth districts said that Dr Muscat was "the worst thing to happen to Malta ...
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Animal hospital opens in Ta' Qali
A new veterinary hospital was opened at Ta' Qali today, a joint venture between the government and the private sector. It replaces the St Fancis animal centre set up by the former government, which was closed for the past few months. The hospital includes a veterinary pharmacy which is open round the ...
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A Phoenician wreck that just keeps giving
A jug unearthed at the oldest shipwreck in the central Mediterranean could prove that the Maltese islands were an integral part of the Phoenician trade network. “To date, we knew that the Phoenicians lived here, because they died here. And to date, our main archaeological sources came from graves,” marine archaeologist ...
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Ice ice baby
The regulars at the IceHotel in Jukkasajarvi, 100 miles into Swedish Lapland and 150 miles beyond the Arctic Circle, tend to be spruce business types. Spruce trees are big business in northern Sweden and travel-ling spruce salesmen need somewhere to stay in Europe’s last wilderness. The IceHotel (formerly the Arctic Hall Hotel) ...
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Brother Louis Camilleri f.s.c. – Cause of Veneration
Born on 1st September 1923 at Zurrieq, since the age of 15, the young Anthony Camilleri had a desire to become a De La Salle Brother (otherwise known as the Brothers of the Christian Schools or Freres), ever since he was 15 years old. During his life, Br Louis' priority ...