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    Security tight as France prepares for presidential vote

    Early voting began overseas Saturday in France's most nail-biting election in generations, and the 11 candidates seeking to become the country's next president silenced their campaigns as required to give voters a period of reflection.Opinion polls pointed to a tight race among the four top contenders vying to get into ...

  • Spagna Panama

    Nexia BT’s Brian Tonna insists he was ultimate beneficial owner, says Egrant now dissolved

    Nexia BT’s director Brian Tonna this evening insisted that he was the ultimate beneficial owner of Egrant Inc, a company at the centre of a political controversy after blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia said it was the PM’s wife Michelle Muscat who owned the company named in the Panama Papers scandal.In ...

  • USA

    Editorial - So what, exactly, was in those bags?

    This is the question that everyone in the country who has more than two brain cells to rub together has been asking themselves ever since Net Television industriously, yet fortuitously, managed to catch the chairman of Pilatus Bank sneaking out the back door of the building housing the bank’s offices ...

  • USA Spagna Panama Malta

    Debate analysis: Muscat confident and strategic, Busuttil honest and credible

    The Malta Independent on Sunday analysis of last Friday’s debate on Malta’s most popular TV show Xarabank looks into the substance, imagery and presentation of Malta’s main political leaders as they lay bare their abilities in a snap debate which has surely blown the whistle on the electoral campaign.In this ...

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    Placing Malta at the forefront of the iGaming industry

    The gaming sector contributes €1.2 billion to the Maltese economy – 12 per cent of GDP. Do you believe that the industry is still growing or has it reached saturation point?The gaming sector certainly has room to grow, especially with the shift to skill and fantasy sport-based games. The Ministry ...

  • Malta

    Minister Abela asks Police Commissioner to provide feedback on forced abortion case

    Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister Carmelo Abela has told The Malta Independent on Sunday that he will ask Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar for feedback on how the case regarding the Moroccan woman who was the victim of a forced abortion is progressing. The Minister went on to say: “If the ...

  • Malta

    Government will not amend party financing law for PL to be able to register

    The government will not amend the party financing law, as confirmed by PL Deputy Leader and Minister for the Economy Chris Cardona during the INDEPTH programme on independent.com.mt. Justice Minister Owen Bonnici believes that the Labour Party’s statute “was already compliant from the word go” and that it was amended ...

  • USA Malta

    Could humanitarian NGOs, police be on collision course over Marsa incident?

    Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela and the police could very well be on a collision course with human rights NGOs following police action taken earlier this week, in which dozens of migrants were rounded up and taken to Police Headquarters for document checks.Controversy erupted earlier this week after the police ...

  • Nigeria

    Leasing Firms Plead For Long Term Funding For Efficiency

    Leasing firms across the country are pleading for cheap long term funding to enhance the capacity of lessors to deepen leasing penetration in the country. Speaking on behalf of the leasing operators at the Quarterly Business Forum of the Equipment Leasing Association of Nigeria (ELAN) in Lagos, the chairman, ELAN, ...

  • Cina

    Most Office Holders Have Forgotten Why They Were Elected – Adamu

    Abdullahi Adamu, popularly known as Dan China was a gubernatorial aspirant of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Bauchi State in 2011. In this interview with ACHOR ABIMAJE, the mining expert, with over 30 years experience, speaks on the economy, the quality of political leadership in the country ...