• Malta

    Airport to double security screening area

    Malta is to move its security screening area to the first floor of the airport terminal, and will double its footprint. The move will take place this week and MIA said some passengers are likely to encounter some disruption. The new security area, once completed next month,  will benefit from state-of-the-art equipment ...

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    Discover tomorrow’s artists

    Ahead of this year’s ICA Festival, Iggy Fenech chats to the festival’s promotion and marketing manager, Matthew Mamo, and art director, Andreas Azzopardi, to find out what’s behind this year’s rebranding of the annual Mcast showcase. For years, Mcast’s Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA) Festival has been a way for ...

  • Malta

    MIA security area relocating this week: passengers advised to arrive early

    Malta International Airport said that passengers are likely to encounter some disruption at the terminal in the coming days due to the phased implementation of the new Central Security Screening Area.The entire area, currently located on the ground floor of the terminal building, is being gradually relocated to the first ...

  • Malta

    Chris Fearne sure Labour will stay in government for another 20 years

    A quick look at the last few decades shows that successful political leaders in Malta have one thing in common: they all reached the top echelons of the party after a long history of working in it. Do you have this crucial track record?I was 16 years old when I ...

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    Nationalist Party MPs to vote in favour of gay marriage

    The Nationalist Party will be voting in favour of the gay marriage bill, the Opposition Leader announced this morning.Speaking in an interview on the party's radio station, Simon Busuttil said that the law which introduces gay marriage is controversial but it barely changes the rights which were introduced in the ...

  • Malta

    PM says marriage equality bill amends Mintoff's 1975 civil marriage law

    Speaking on Radio One this morning, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat spoke about the marriage equality bill which will start to be debated in Parliament tomorrow.He said the government has chosen to amend the landmark Civil Marriage law that was introduced by Dom Mintoff in 1975. The government could choose a different ...

  • USA

    PN leadership candidate: Adrian Delia says message needs to be delivered to people one by one

    Adrian Delia, a lawyer and an outsider to the political sphere, has confirmed that he will be contesting the Nationalist Party leadership race in September. Delia is the first contender to have confirmed his interest in the position being vacated by Simon Busuttil in the wake of the party’s defeat ...

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    Angela Merkel sounds warning that UK may copy Malta’s low-tax model

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week sounded an alarm that the UK may end up copying Malta's low tax rate model when it exits the European Union.Addressing a meeting with non-governmental organisations in Hamburg this week, before she hosts a G20 summit in the city next month, she said: "I ...

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    25% of child care centre complaints related to carer to child ratios, number restrictions - minister

    Around 25 per cent of the 60 complaints received during the past year by the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education (DQSE), within the Ministry for Education and Employment, were related to the non-compliance of childcare centres with carer to child ratios and/or with going above the restrictions for ...

  • Malta

    Jerma owners now proposing 28-storey tower; council told other option is larger than abandoned hotel

    The long abandoned Jerma Hotel in Marsascala might be turned into a 28-storey tower or a building with a bigger footprint than the existing structure. The owners who had proposed the development of three towers, the highest being 44 storeys high, have now approached the Local Council with new plans, ...