The first-ever American Football ‘Bowl’ has hit Malta after one Maltese team took on Bulgarian national champions on home soil. Phoenix Malta faced Sofia Knights , champions of their own local league, under the Maltese sun and before hundreds of fans in an American-style set-up. It was first for the Maltese side, who fought hard and even bagged a few
Joseph Portelli has confirmed he is considering buying an island in Montenegro and said he has “great plans” for it, but he has not bought it yet because he is weighing all his options. Portelli told Times of Malta that over the past couple of weeks he visited St Mark’s island, where the Montenegrin government has issued a planning policy for development,
The craft of Maltese illustrator Daniela Attard, known as iella, has made it to Australia, after the third part of her traveling exhibition – Take Me Home – was unveiled in Sydney. The exhibition was first featured in London earlier this year. It later ran for two weeks in Malta. Now, the third part of iella’s venture saw the exhibition make its way
Delays caused by added bureaucracy following Brexit and other international situations such as the war in Ukraine are leading to shortage of medicines, with pharmacies scrambling to offer replacements so as not to keep their clients without the items they need. Over the past days several customers approached The Malta Independent on Sunday to complain
Our small nation with a big heart has shown yet another act of kindness as it helped The Hospice Malta fundraising telethon, Bl-Imħabba Naslu, raise a total of €428,442. The telethon came to a close at midnight on 26 June. The telethon’s aim was to continue raising funds to cover the costs in relation of the St Michael Hospice project, that is now
Obituaries BALDACCHINO . On Friday, June 24, SAVIOUR, aged 80, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Carmen and his children Chris and his wife Tanya, and Lydon and his wife Sarah, together with his grandchildren Shaniah and her boyfriend Kyle, Darro and Mila, his siblings and their spouses,
In olden days, when the cheapest way to get here was to fly Air Malta, your tickets came in the post with a little booklet, helpfully explaining what to expect when you got here. I must have had dozens of them but I have searched and been unable to find one. So, what follows is from memory, although somebody will have kept one and will be able to correct
De La Salle College Junior School chose the Bee theme for the academic year 2021-2022, encouraging the Lasallian community to be anything they want to be and raising awareness about the benefits of bees. Bees are losing their natural habitat due to climate change and urban development. Creating a happy place for bees can attract bees back to their
A UK government bill proposing an overhaul to a post-Brexit deal in Northern Ireland returns to parliament on Monday, despite EU warnings it is illegal and could spark a trade war. Brussels threatened legal action after the UK government earlier this month introduced the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill to unilaterally change trading terms for the British
Mosta’s toothless threat The threatening Mosta local council warning in Triq il-Qares, displayed above several garbage bags, says it all: “Keep clean. Do not leave garbage here. Heavy penalties for those caught. Thanks for the cooperation. Kunsill Lokali Mosta.” Mosta local council should better remove the notice in Triq il-Qares to avoid being ridiculed
Almost half of the Armed Forces of Malta are still awaiting some form of redress over injustices they allegedly suffered pre-2013, despite a grievances procedure that has been pending since 2017. The group of 700 soldiers had been interviewed by a board of injustices set up by the government in 2017, chaired by former prisons director Alexander Dalli
Amidst all the numbers, scare stories and fear mongering, it is easy to forget the basic human dimensions of the migration challenge. Because of its geography and history, Malta cannot avoid migration as an ongoing policy issue, as a political challenge and as a human tragedy that it is surrounded by. On World Refugee Day , a few days ago, the Refugee
Reading Time: 3 minutes BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) – Shanghai will gradually resume dining-in at restaurants from June 29 in low-risk areas and areas without any community-level spread of COVID-19 during the previous week，a Shanghai government official said on Sunday. The Chinese econonic hub lifted a two month city-wide lockdown on June 1, but many
Leaders of the Group of Seven economic powers are set to commit themselves to the long haul in supporting Ukraine as they meet in the German Alps and confer by video link with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The G-7 leaders will begin Monday's session of their three-day summit with a focus on Ukraine. Later, they will be joined by the leaders
Reading Time: 3 minutes SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany, June 26 (Reuters) – After clashing last year over sausages and submarines, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Boris Johnson were all smiles at a G7 summit on Sunday, with disputes over Brexit not even coming up at bilateral talks focused mainly on Ukraine. The leaders of Europe’s two main military
Reading Time: 2 minutes SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations mocked the macho image of their absent adversary Vladimir Putin on Sunday, at a meeting in Germany dominated by the Russian President’s invasion of Ukraine. As the besuited leaders sat down for their first meeting of the three-day G7 summ it in
Reading Time: < 1 minute BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe will mobilize 300 billion euros in private and public funds over five years to fund infrastructure in developing countries as part of the G7’s drive to counter China’s multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road project, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday. “It is up to us to give
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At least 21 teenagers, the youngest possibly just 13, died at the weekend after a night out at a township tavern in South Africa, in a tragedy whose cause remains unclear. Many are thought to have been students celebrating the end of their high-school exams on Saturday night, provincial officials said. There were no visible wounds on the bodies. Officials
A UK parliamentary committee investigating global dirty money flows has been warned that Malta could turn to “questionable” Chinese and Central Asian money to make up for lost passport sales to rich Russians. In written submissions to the committee, former UK government adviser Shanker Singham warned that efforts by Malta to fill the financial void