Around 109,000 people in Malta are at risk of poverty, according to PN Shadow Minister for Social Policy Ivan Bartolo, who said vulnerable people must be placed at the centre of the country’s social policies. Bartolo made the statement during a PN discussion on social policy in Sliema, where Opposition leader Alex Borg argued that Malta would be “failing
Three people have been arrested in connection with two separate drug-related cases in St Paul's Bay and Marsa, police said. The first incident took place at around 11am on Saturday, when police officers on patrol in Triq Ġulju, St Paul's Bay, noticed a man riding a motorcycle in a negligent manner. The man was stopped and police found that he was in
Max Verstappen's long wait for another Formula 1 race win is finally over. The title race might be over, too. Verstappen took his first victory of an often-frustrating year for the four-time champion at Formula 1's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia on Sunday. A retirement for George Russell handed a huge title boost to Kimi Antonelli. Verstappen was leading
A father and son have been hospitalised after the ceiling of a house in Marsa collapsed early on Sunday morning. A police spokesperson told The Malta Independent that the incident happened at around 9:10am in a house situated in Triq San Mikiel in Marsa. Two people – one adult and one child – were injured and have been taken to Mater Dei Hospital by
