• Malta

    Dolores Sammut Bonnici appointed President of the Malta Employers Association

    Following the Annual General Meeting of the Malta Employers' Association, Ms. Dolores Sammut Bonnici has been appointed as the new President for MEA.She takes over the reins from Mr. Arthur Muscat, who had served as President for the previous four years. Ms. Sammut Bonnici is an entrepreneur and is the ...

  • USA Malta

    Editorial: Will it be an Autumn election?

    There has been a marked change these past two weeks.Two weeks ago, we were all agog about the EU Presidency, with so many high-level meetings in Malta and comings and goings.Then, almost all of a sudden, the mood changed and we are now definitely in an election mode.Many have interpreted ...

  • Malta

    INDEPTH: PN considering shifting position on media law – Mario de Marco

    Nationalist Party deputy leader Mario de Marco said the PN is considering a shift in its original position on the media law as presented by the government.Interviewed by The Malta Independent online editor Stephen Calleja on INDEPTH, Dr de Marco said that the criticism the PN levelled at what he ...

  • USA Francia Malta Cipro

    Comeback?

    Is inflation making a comeback?We have spent quite some time regretting its absence. The European Central Bank would regularly announce that the target of a 2 per cent inflation rate still needed to be reached.But now we seem to be there. The contra claim is that this does not apply ...

  • Marocco

    Two elderly British persons lose their lives in Nadur car crash

    Two elderly British persons lost their lives last night in a car crash on Rabat Road, Nadur, Gozo.The 68-year-old English man was driving a Suzuki Ignis, with a 73-year-old English woman on board. Both were Xaghra residents. Their car collided with a Peugeot Partner driven by a 25-year-old from Qala.The ...

  • Malta

    CABS accuses government of “de facto tolerance” of illegal bird trapping

    Despite a bird trapping ban in spring, poachers have paved the Maltese coastline with hundreds of illegal clap-nets to catch finches and other songbirds, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) said today."An aerial survey from last week revealed a record number of 133 active trapping sites concentrated in coastal areas ...

  • USA Regno Unito Malta

    ‘Think big not small, let Air Malta spread its wings’ – Partit Demokratiku

    The Partit Demokratiku has expressed concern over developments in the Air Malta saga."Persistent news that Air Malta is cutting strategically important routes in the UK and Germany; down sizing its fleet and losing ground handling contracts paint a very bleak picture indeed," the PD said."In a time where we have ...

  • Nigeria

    Illegal oil export: Court hears FG’s case against Shell May 31

    Ramon Oladimeji The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed May 31, 2017 to hear a suit filed by the Federal Government against a multinational oil company, Shell Western Supply & Trading Ltd, over alleged illegal crude oil exports. The Federal Government accused Shell Western Supply & Trading Ltd of ...

  • USA

    Uber President Jeff Jones quits

    Ride services company Uber Technologies Inc has been thrust deeper into turmoil with the departure of company president Jeff Jones, a marketing expert hired to help bolster its reputation. Jones quit less than seven months after joining the San Francisco company, an Uber spokesman said on Sunday. The reasons for ...

  • USA

    Cambodia suspends human breast milk exports to US

    Cambodia has temporarily stopped an American company from exporting locally-pumped human breast milk, AFP has learned, after reports highlighted how some of the country’s poorest women were supplementing their income through the trade. Utah-based company Ambrosia Labs claims to be the first of its kind to export human breast milk ...