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The Secretariat for Catholic Education has said that it has received a request from the Malta Union of Teachers to follow the same direction on the staggered opening of Church Schools. This follows the notification from Ministry for Education that in State Schools, educators will be returning on the 28th of September and students attending primary

Miguela Xuereb Tista' taqra bil- Malti . A 94-year-old woman died while being positive with Covid-19. This marks the 30th COVID-19 related death in Malta, and the second one today. The elderly woman tested positive for Covid-19 today, as part of routine tests being carried out in nursing homes, although it should be noted that in two previous tests,

Nexia BT partners Brian Tonna and Karl Cini have had their accounting warrants suspended in light of their recent arrest on suspicion of money laundering. In a statement this evening, the Accountancy Board said it appointed a disciplinary committee to look into the firm following the conclusion of a magisterial inquiry into an alleged €100,000 kickback

Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has refused to comment on whether FBI agents have come to Malta as part of an alleged special money investigation by the US domestic intelligence and security service. Lovin Malta sought a comment from Camilleri during a press conference yesterday. However, Camilleri refused to speak on the topic and went on to

Feminist activist Emily Galea will guest star on Lovin Malta’s daily news show tomorrow. Galea, who forms part of Malta’s first pro-choice youth group Young Progressive Beings, was one of the organiser’s of today’s publicity stunt outside the law courts. The public action was done in opposition to a court decision that barred a pregnant domestic abuse

Days after meeting Prime Minister Robert Abela, European Council President Charles Michel was forced to self-isolate in Brussels after a security person he had close contact with tested positive for COVID-19. An EU spokesperson confirmed that he was in contact with the security officer the same week he visited Abela before a summit on Europe’s migration

Jeremy Wonnacott (DOI) Ten social housing apartment blocks have been regenerated through an expenditure of €700,000, as part of an ongoing effort by the Housing Authority to improve existing housing. The 10 blocks at the Żabbar housing estate house more than 110 families, and in a visit to the site, Social Accommodation Minister Roderick Galdes pledged

Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning Aaron Farrugia met with the newly-appointed Ambjent Malta board members on Wednesday, discussing Ambjent Malta’s plans for the coming years in order to have a holistic approach throughout. Minister Farrugia stated that “Our projects need to take a number of things in consideration. They need

ScreenShot - Video Footage via Twitter Two police officers are the latest victims in of a shooting which took place in Kentucky in the US, in reaction to the fact that no officers were charged with offences directly linked to the killing of Breonna Taylor in March. Protests have erupted, through the streets of New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta

London is to host the world’s first Covid-19 human challenge trials — in which healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavirus to assess the effectiveness of experimental vaccines. The UK government-funded studies are expected to begin in January at a secure quarantine facility in east London, according to several people involved in the

Amazon.com, the world’s biggest online retailer, has announced that its climate-friendly program has officially launched on Wednesday, in order to encourage customers to shop for sustainable products, with this being part of its commitment to become net carbon neutral by 2040. As part of this campaign, customers will now be able to buy more than 25,000

Joe Biden would end the “artificial trade war” that Donald Trump launched against the EU if he wins the US election in November, according to the Democratic presidential candidate’s top foreign policy adviser. Antony Blinken said the US needed to “improve our economic relations” with the EU given the bloc’s importance as a market, and because it was

It has been a momentous, not to say historic, week. After weeks and months of stagnation not just to unravel the background to the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia but also to begin the mammoth task of the cleaning of the stables with police inaction on the one side and all sorts of delaying tactics on the other, at long last some action has been

Alfred Zammit, deputy director FIAU Last week the FIAU was accused in the press that it was stepping up its efforts as a mere PR exercise after years of inactivity simply to impress. This claim is entirely unfounded and also centred around incorrect, incomplete, misinterpreted and selective use of information. This is not only unjust to the FIAU, but

Numerous MEPs on Thursday told Commissioner for taxation Paolo Gentiloni that it was high time to tackle member state reticence to progress on tax justice. Speaking during the first hearing of the newly created subcommittee on tax matters, MEPs taking the floor as the spokesperson for their respective groups highlighted the need to quickly translate

The Treasury announces the auction results and allocation of the Malta Government Stock issue of September 2020. By the closing date at noon on Wednesday 23 September 2020, the Treasury received 129 bids having a total nominal value of €426.5 million against the authorised sum on issue of €120 million subject to an over-allotment option for an additional

A few months after their first single ‘Keep Going,’ Upper Lip have released another song from their album Deep Within. ‘What makes you smile’ is a ballad that prompts reflection concerning  moments in our life which are difficult and troublesome. It is also a song which encourages hope and courage. Indeed the song takes two perspectives: one that reflects

Isabelle Borg By Maria Galea Ten years ago, Malta lost a gifted artist and extraordinary woman, Isabelle Borg. A decade later, Isabelle is still with us, her influence embedded in her art, artistic journey, bold statements of the moment, and last but not least the treasured moments with her friends and loved ones. Today we value her importance more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Pfizer’s German development partner BioNTech on Thursday joined other leading COVID-19 vaccine developers in ruling out participation in British plans to test experimental inoculations by deliberately infecting trial volunteers. “BioNTech’s vaccine candidate is not part of this study,” a spokeswoman said. Britain is planning

Reading Time: < 1 minute Oman said on Thursday it will resume scheduled international flights on Oct. 1 with strict measures to protect the country and aviation staff from the coronavirus, the Gulf state’s aviation authority said in a statement. Domestic flights between the capital Muscat and the city of Salalah will also resume on the same date, official

Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia on Thursday unveiled its biggest shakeup in bankruptcy laws in nearly three decades, allowing small businesses to trade while insolvent and take more control over debt restructuring, in a bid to help firms through the coronavirus crisis. The new rules will help manage an expected avalanche of insolvencies when wage

Miguela Xuereb From the data gathered from the SAĦĦA page on Facebook, the number of sporadic cases of COVID-19 seems to be near the 40% mark. The page is administered by the Ministry for health and the data is not always easy to read. However, given the amount of person in clusters, one can normally arrive at the numbers which are ‘unaccounted for’

Reading Time: < 1 minute A 33-year-old football referee, Daniele De Santis, and his partner, Eleonora Manta, were stabbed to death at their home in the city of Lecce, in Puglia. Both victims were stabbed several times, sources said. A number of persons who happened to be close to the crime scene told news agencies that they heard shouts and saw a man

The coronavirus dominated the English League Cup schedule Tuesday as West Ham played despite its coach and two players having tested positive, while Tottenham's game was called off. West Ham said manager David Moyes and players Issa Diop and Josh Cullen only found out their test results after they had arrived at the London Stadium to play against Hull

Roma was issued a 3-0 loss to Hellas Verona by Serie A’s disciplinary judge on Tuesday for using an ineligible player. The match -- the league opener for both teams -- ended 0-0 on Saturday. Midfielder Amadou Diawara started the match but was not listed on Roma's 25-man team list. Diawara, who turned 23 in July, was no longer eligible for Roma Under-22s

On 16 April 2019, my 89-year-old father passed away. I miss my father. I miss our chats. I miss his passion for music, his love of the environment. I miss our conversations about the books he loved to read. My father was my best friend. He was someone I could talk to about pretty much anything. A man who taught me to be a free thinker, unshackled by

It has been my privilege to help tell the story of what happened here in Malta when Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed and all that happened since then, a number of times. I met some great journalists it was an honour just being close to, let alone to have answers to their questions. Richard Engel is a star of journalism in his own right. He is the

Silvio Parnis is rarely in the news. The position he occupies as parliamentary secretary responsible for the elderly and the disabled is not a controversial role and his contributions to general politics have rarely been given consideration by the media – simply because they did not deserve any consideration. Last week, however, a gesture of his reminded