Malta
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Measure 100 times and cut once.
— Maltese proverb
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Street vendors turn Malta's prime sites into flea markets - GRTU, MHRA
GRTU Malta Chamber for SMEs and the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association today said they are concerned that anyone who wishes to start selling anything to just set up a stall at a place of their choosing and start trading. This is turning even Malta’s Main Street, Republic Street, into ...
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Joseph Muscat: ‘I had passed through Msida minutes before the bomb exploded’
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat revealed he had just been driven through Msida only 15 minutes before a car bomb exploded, injuring a man seriously and hurting five others.Earlier, Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela made a statement to the House about the Msida bombing. He said the ...
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Republic Street shop owners fume as street vendors pop up
Republic Street shop owners are concerned that the issuing of permits to street vendors could negatively impact their shops and efforts to raise standards in Valletta. Business owners, who spoke to the Times of Malta on the condition of anonymity, said that they were concerned that the popular shopping street could ...
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Swieqi to get new CCTV to fight crime, vandalism
Swieqi residents’ safety concerns are set to decrease as the locality prepares to get considerable new CCTV coverage to help in the fight against vandalism and crime. Mayor Noel Muscat told the Times of Malta that agreement had been reached between the council and the Malta Tourism Authority that would see ...
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Digital transformation of financial services
It may have become a hackneyed cliché to state that the exponential advances in technology are transforming our lives. In all areas of life, especially in healthcare and in financial services, the digitalisation of services has brought about changes that many in our society now take for granted. Following the financial ...
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What to eat in February
February is the time when winter starts to become spring. These recipes feature in-season ingredients and some carnival treats. Nettle leaves are young and tender this month, and as we approach the summer the leaves toughen up, so now is the time to make use of them. Use gloves and scissors to ...
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200 women in a few hours
No sooner has the account been set up than hundreds of messages from beautiful women wanting to chat, and more, begin to flood my inbox. Just replying to one of them would cost me a few euros. The women who get in touch are seemingly undeterred by the fact that my ...
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‘Malta is well positioned as an attractive domicile post-Brexit’
Finance Malta chairman Kenneth Farrugia talks to Anthony Manduca about Brexit, Malta’s reputation as a financial services centre, EU tax harmonisation attempts and how the new US Trump administration could affect the global financial climate. “We will not play the vulture game when it comes to Brexit,” Mr Farrugia says when ...
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Forever thus to tourists
Ed eats The Stone CrabXatt ix-XlendiXlendiTel 2155 6400 Food: 5/10 Service: 7/10Ambience: 8/10Value: 7/10Overall: 7/10 Travel really helps to define us as individuals. It tends to bring out the best or the worst in people. Taken out of our daily routine and our customary stomping grounds, we tend to turn into a different ...
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Beppe Fenech Adami inquiry to be submitted Monday, same day as PANA committee meeting, OPM confirms
Judge JD Camilleri will be submitting the board of inquiry’s report on the CapitalOne investigation tomorrow (Monday) following the four-week extension the board had been granted, a spokesperson from the Office of the Prime Minister has told The Malta Independent on Sunday. The spokesperson did not give an exact date as ...
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Busuttil cites reasons why Brian Tonna admitting ownership of Egrant is ‘complete lie’, PL reacts
Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil today questioned why the journalist who quoted Brian Tonna from Nexia BT as saying he owns the elusive third Panama based company Egrant Inc did not refer to an article penned one year earlier, in which Mr Tonna said he could not divulge client details due ...
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Three months into the job as judge, Toni Abela still to hear first case
Former Labour Party Deputy Leader Toni Abela, who was appointed to the bench back in November, has not yet heard a single case. The Malta Independent on Sunday is well-informed that the matter has been raised with Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri, who is reportedly mulling over exactly which sector of ...
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Editorial: Government jumps the gun on internet freedoms
In its headlong rush to defuse the rather nasty situation created by Minister and Labour Party Deputy Leader Chris Cardona when he took the utterly draconian move of having a garnishee order imposed on a journalist before proceedings in libel cased he filed had even begun, the government has well ...
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Education Council conclusions aim to provide more opportunities for young people
The EYCS (Education, Youth, Culture and Sports) Council has approved a set of conclusions on investing in Europe’s young, with a focus on education and employment opportunities. The conclusions were adopted by all member states during the Council’s education meeting, which took place yesterday in Brussels.The council meeting, chaired by ...
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Prime Minister calls Simon Busuttil a liar
The Egrant story continued to hold sway in the hothouse of Maltese politics.On the one hand, the revelation by MaltaToday that the company Egrant about which many had suspected is owned by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, actually belongs to Brtian Tonna, the head of Nexia BT, was openly disbelieved by ...
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Autonomy call for Gozo gets mixed reception
Gozo’s first minister and former Speaker Anton Tabone agrees that the island should have an autonomous regional council to administer its own affairs. Dr Tabone was reacting to a call made by Gozo Minister Anton Refalo this week in Parliament for both sides of the political divide to agree on a ...
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Three of every four people who drowned in Malta last year were foreign
Three-quarters of people who drowned in Malta last year were men, the vast majority of whom were foreign, official figures show. Data on drownings tabled in Parliament by Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela on Wednesday show that nine of the 12 people who tragically drowned last year were men, nine of ...
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Don’t subscribe to opt-in ignorance
This government has made strides in legislations pertaining to equality with the introduction of civil unions, the criminalisation of gay therapy and other legislations such as the decriminalisation of religion vilification. But it’s looking like all these changes have been first and foremost for the boosting of votes rather than the government’s ...
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Today's newspapers in review
The following are the top stories in national newspapers today. Times of Malta says diabetics who need regular insulin injections are being forced to get by with the needles usually used by children as the eight-millimetre ones for adults are out of stock. In another story, the newspaper says Gozo’s first ...
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Fitch affirms Malta's rating, gives positive outlook
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Malta's long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings (IDR) at 'A' with a positive outlook. The issue ratings on Malta's senior unsecured foreign and local currency bonds have also been affirmed at 'A' and 'F1', respectively. The country ceiling has been affirmed at 'AAA' and the short-term ...
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PN believes bill on press law is a knee-jerk reaction by the government
The Nationalist Party believes that the bill proposed by the government, flanked by Ministers Owen Bonnici and Evarist Bartolo, is a knee-jerk reaction to the recent events.PN Deputy Leader Mario de Marco said, in a press conference, quoted from a report published by the Malta IT law association, which said ...