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Two people with COVID have died overnight, the health authorities said on Monday. The victims are both men, aged 55 and 90. The same data issued by the authorities shows that 202 new COVID cases were registered overnight, while a further 1,253 recovered. This means there are currently 4,708 known active cases in Malta. Of these, 103 are in hospital,

The Labour Party has appointed Rosianne Cutajar as the new president of Parliament’s health committee, only two months after she was reprimanded by the House for an ethics breach involving murder suspect Yorgen Fenech. Health Minister Chris Fearne moved a motion for Cutajar’s appointment to the role after the committee’s previous president Silvio Grixti

Graziella Galea, ritratt Parlament TV Former St Paul’s Bay mayor Graziella Galea has been formally sworn in as Malta’s newest MP, after the Nationalist Party chose to co-opt her for the seat vacated by David Thake. A co-option was necessary since Thake, who also hails from St Paul’s Bay, had been elected in a casual election for a seat vacated by former

Police have charged five men with having abducted a man and driving off with him in a van last Friday. Christian Borg, 28, from Swieqi, Thorne Mangion,27, from Qormi, Tyson Grech 26, from Senglea, Burton Azzopardi, 20 from Cospicua and Jeremy Borg, 20 from Qormi The men were accused of abducting the man in Rabat last Friday. The alleged victim managed

Kurja – knisja.mt Celebrating Mass on the eve of the Solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Archbishop Charles Scicluna said that the Word of God, “is not a stone to be used against someone but an open door that leads all humans to meet God, who is merciful, forgiving, loving, and patient.” Saturday’s Mass at St Paul’s Cathedral in Mdina included

TYRONE GRIMA speaks to Lara Zammit about his novel Frammenti, which is enshrined in a sense of mystery, inviting its readers to piece the narrative together. LZ: Fragments suggest incompleteness, or lack of resolution. What influenced this stylistic choice for your latest novel? How does this shape the narrative structure of the story unfolding within

A Princess Diana documentary produced in the UK was officially selected for the opening of the Sundance Film Festival which happened earlier this week. Daniel Lapira is the co-editor of this film, born and bred in Malta and currently based in the UK where he’s been working on a number of exciting productions. ‘The Princess’ is a documentary about the

Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning Briefing MHRA welcomes announced relaxation of Covid rules The MHRA has reacted positively to news of an exit roadmap, expressing hope that the worst has passed. “Over the course of the past two years there have been numerous false starts and deep disappointment as we returned to various lockdowns, but there is a strong

Pope Francis said Sunday he was following "with concern" rising tensions in Ukraine, and called for a day of prayer for peace next week. "I am following with concern the rising tensions that threaten to inflict a new blow to peace in Ukraine, and call into question the security of the European continent, with even wider repercussions," he said following

An Iranian court has sentenced leading human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi to eight years in prison and over 70 lashes, her husband announced on Sunday, following her sudden arrest in November last year. Her husband Taghi Rahmani, who is based in France, wrote on Twitter that the sentence was handed out after a hearing that lasted only five minutes

Updated: 9.13pm A 75-year-old Frenchman attempting to row across the Atlantic "to laugh at old age" was found dead in his cabin at sea Saturday, his support team said. Portugal's coastguard found Jean-Jacques Savin's overturned boat off the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores on Friday. They were able to send a diver down on Saturday to search it,

Peru declared an environmental emergency Saturday to battle an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. The stunningly powerful eruption last Saturday of an undersea volcano near Tonga unleashed tsunami waves around the Pacific and as far away as the United States. In Peru, the oil spill near Lima has fouled beaches,

New Alliance Letting Division launched with operational innovations to benefit tenants, landlords and agents of letting properties in Malta. Having already established a very strong market presence in property sales, Alliance Real Estate started 2022 focused squarely on the launch of its new Letting Division; and as it did previously with property

As she prepares to take on the role of director of AX Care, CLAIRE ZAMMIT XUEREB explains why community is essential to quality healthcare and her vision for the business going forward. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned growing up in the Xuereb family business is that we have a duty to make a positive impact on the communities we serve

Reading Time: 23 minutes ATTARD, Malta, Jan 21 (Reuters) – In the courtyard of a secluded limestone palace, Malta’s political elite welcomed a guest: Changpeng Zhao, chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. It was October 2018. Zhao was in Malta to find Binance a new home, having quit mainland China the year before when

The world has radically changed and shifted over the course of the past two years and no facet of people’s lives has remained unaffected. The notion and very fabric of work environments have been greatly disrupted, forcing businesses to confront what this new reality calls for, with no clear path laid out for how to navigate it. The way forward? Office

Porsche sold more electric Taycan models in 2021 than its iconic 911 sports car as the German firm resisted supply difficulties seen elsewhere in the industry. The Taycan is the first of the firm’s next-generation electric vehicles and was introduced in 2019. In its first full year on sale about 20,000 units were shifted, but that more than doubled

Artist Romeo Roxman Gatt has launched his latest project Rosa Kwir , an experimental virtual and physical archive and project space. Located at Main Street, Balzan, Rosa Kwir brings together stories of trans men, non-binary and LBQI masculine-presenting people. The inspiration behind the name ‘Rosa Kwir’ comes from a story dating back to 1774, when

We are not angry enough is a story set in Malta and Europe in the near future. In the form of a letter from a mother to her daughter Maddy, it shows a family trying to navigate the crisis in the region caused by a rapidly warming climate. Read chapter 1 and a note by the story's author . When the Big Dry came, Dad refused to move. I remember we had

Local quintet Skald centres their music strongly on the Maltese language. BERTU AQUILINA speaks to Lara Zammit about the band and their music. The quintet Skald describe their aim as that of “breathing life into Maltese literature and culture” with their own blend of original music. Following their debut album Kura in June 2021, the local band is set

Reading Time: < 1 minute Two-thirds of anti-vaccination propaganda posted online is created by just 12 so-called influencers, research has found. Different to those who describe themselves vaccine hesitant, anti-vaxxers tend to employ aggressive methods to persuade others not to get injections designed to help prevent disease. The list was compiled

Reading Time: 3 minutes HONG KONG, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Hong Kong authorities said on Sunday one hamster surrendered to authorities by pet-owners had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and that over 2,200 hamsters had been culled as the city grappled to contain an outbreak. On Tuesday, officials ordered the killing of hamsters from dozens of pet

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Head of Libya’s National Center for Disease Control, Haidar Al-Sayeh, said Libya entered the fourth wave of Covid-19 pandemic after the outbreak of Omicron variant, adding that the positive cases are increasing in a rapid manner; a serious problem which Libya hadn’t seen over the last months. Al-Sayeh said the solution

Reading Time: 2 minutes African scientists are optimistic that the variant could mark the end of the pandemic and the beginning of an endemic. South African virologist Wolfgang Preiser told DW that the behavior of the omicron variant gives hope that the pandemic could become endemic. But he added that it could only be achieved when most of the population

Two late penalties, the second one in stoppage time gave champions Hamrun Spartans a dramatic equaliser against Balzan in a highly interesting and entertaining draw. Balzan took a two-goal lead by the end of the first half with a Bojan Kaljevic brace, but the Spartans never gave in and managed to score two penalties to earn a precious point. For Balzan

Man City dropping points. Newcastle winning a game. A drone stopping play. There were plenty of unusual occurrences in the Premier League on Saturday, even if a late, late winner by Manchester United at Old Trafford felt ever so familiar. Few could have expected City to fail to win at Southampton, with a 1-1 draw ending the leaders' 12-match winning

Edin D?eko netted a last-gasp winner to help Inter Milan beat virus-hit Venezia 2-1 and move five points clear at the top of Serie A on Saturday. It was D?eko’s first goal since the beginning of December. Nicolò Barella had canceled out Thomas Henry’s shock opener for Venezia in the first half. “When you score in the last minute, it’s normal to celebrate

Reading Time: 2 minutes Manchester United interim boss Ralf Rangnick said Cristiano Ronaldo did not undermine his authority following the forward’s angry reaction to being substituted at Brentford in the Premier League on Wednesday. The Portugal international did not look pleased after being taken off for Harry Maguire in the 71th minute as United

Driven by Rodney Gatt, French Alf De Melandre won Sunday’s major event at the Marsa Racetrack. This was a class Premier race on a short distance of 2140m and which also formed part of the second meeting of the year, consisting of nine races all for trotters. Eleven trotters lined up for the class Premier race. Brasil De Bailly (Mario Fenech) was the

Two late goals in a span of two minutes handed Gżira United and Valletta a point each in a 1-1 draw that sparked into life in the second half. After a drab opening 45 minutes, both the Maroons and the Citizens producing a thrilling second half that saw Gżira’s Maxuell reply to Triston Caruana’s momentarily leading goal for Valletta. Gżira and Valletta

Premier League side Valletta are set to strengthen their squad with the acquisition of Colombian left-back Luis Carlos Murillo. The Citizens were looking to fill the vacuum left by former club captain Joseph Zerafa who joined Hibernians during this winter transfer window. Club president Alexander Fenech confirmed during a pre-match interview before

Former Liverpool and Slovakia centre-back Martin Skrtel believes his current side Spartak Trnava can reach their target of winning the Slovakian SuperLiga this season. The 37-year-old, in his first season back with a Slovakian club since his departure from Trencin back in 2004 to Zenit St Petersburg, is currently with Trnava in Malta for the TipSport

In his interview with the Times of the 23rd August 2021 , Joseph Muscat said “I am an economist. I give economic advice, I provide advisory services to people both locally and internationally. I look at trends in their industries, strategies in their sectors and advice on how they can perfect them”. I did not know Muscat was an economist, so I googled

At the onset of the pandemic, in spring 2020, when we were still wondering how to stop the advance of what soon looked like an all engulfing catastrophe killing scores of people in its wake, a reader’s letter was published in the Financial Times with a seemingly outlandish idea. “Why,” asked the author, “are we not testing everyone to stop the spread

The postponement of last Sunday’s north London derby between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal didn’t sit comfortably with a lot of observers. Yes, Arsenal had one or two COVID cases in their team, but that alone would not have been enough for a postponement – many clubs have fulfilled fixtures despite having four or five players struck down with the virus

Following an appeal made in this column last month for the relocation of the proposed new Marsaxlokk local council facilities within the car park contiguous to the locality’s football ground, I was rebuked for suggesting that such an ‘ODZ space’ (the car park) should be developed, even if it meant sparing the mature school garden. I was briefly heartened