• Malta

    Added colour at President’s Kitchen Gardens

    The President’s Kitchen Garden has undergone a major refurbishment over the past few months, and now features a multi-sensory garden with play panels for children with special needs. The gardens boast new and improved gym equipment, some of which can also be used by wheelchair-user persons, an inclusive merry-go-round, additional swings ...

  • USA

    A&H: Pushing boundaries

    Many Maltese know Victor Calvagna for his work in cancer therapy, especially for children. Puttinu Cares, the charity that raises funds to support families of children with cancer, kicked off thanks to Dr Calvagna and his team.  We had met several times in relation to his work. A few weeks ...

  • USA Malta

    Muscat questions principles of MPs who are against gay marriage but will vote in favour

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning said he could understand MPs who argued against the introduction of gay marriage, even if they did so because they were misinformed, but could not understand those who were against it but would vote in favour. “What kind of principles are these,” he asked, ...

  • USA Malta

    TMID Editorial: IIP 3.0 - Design the next investment programme now

    In the run-up to the general election, Joseph Muscat launched the second wave of his IIP, the Individual Investment Programme, or as we all know it to be: the sale of Maltese citizenship with an easy entry into the European Union.The Nationalist Party, which attacked the programme throughout the legislature, ...

  • Malta

    Simon Busuttil and Joseph Muscat ‘totalitarian’ – Edwin Vassallo

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and PN Leader Simon Busuttil are totalitarian leaders by denying MPs a free vote of the Marriage Equality bill, PN MP Edwin Vassallo has told The Malta Independent.Vassallo, who was speaking in an interview which will be published on Sunday, said that Muscat and Busuttil “are not ...

  • Malta

    Minister says no permission needed to chop Mellieha Carob Tree, ENGO says otherwise

    Although Minister for the Environment Jose Herrera has said that permission to intervene and cut a carob tree in Triq il-Qortin, Mellieha, is not needed, eNGOs have stated that permission is always needed when intervening with protected trees.  “The tree in question is in an area of development and therefore ...

  • USA Panama Malta

    TMID Editorial: Identity Malta investigation - What about the big fish?

    Identity Malta this week went to the police and requested an investigation after it emerged that an employee had misappropriated some €25,000 at the passports unit. According to a DOI-issued statement, the employee had admitted to the crime and offered to hand the money back on condition that the police ...

  • Belgio

    Manifestation samedi à Bruxelles: importants problèmes de circulation à prévoir

    Une dizaine d'associations participeront samedi après-midi à une manifestation dans les rues de Bruxelles afin de soutenir la contestation populaire contre le pouvoir qui secoue le nord du Maroc. La police de Bruxelles Capitale-Ixelles prévoit d'importants problèmes de circulation sur la partie ouest de la petite ceinture entre la gare ...

  • Nuova Zelanda

    Te Puke booms off back of kiwifruit

    Te Puke produces more than half of New Zealand's kiwifruit crop and Bay orchardists contributed $867 million to national GDP this past season.The industry generates 10,762 fulltime equivalent (FTE) jobs in the Bay and another 14,329...

  • USA

    Once Dominant, the United States Finds Itself Isolated at G-20

    On issues like trade and climate change, the Trump administration stands alone.