The Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA) has been commended following an evaluation exercise conducted on behalf of the European Commission by representatives of the Senior Labour Inspectors Committee (SLIC) in October. The 8 person-strong evaluation team was headed by Finland and included members from Estonia, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus ...

Medserv announced today that the company have been re-awarded a contract by Eni North Africa (EniNa) to provide logistics base and associated services for its exploration activities taking place offshore and onshore Libya. The contract duration is for a period of one year with the possibility of extending for another ...

A nurse received €16,270 as compensation as the court ruled that her transfer from a ward in Mater Dei Hospital to St Vincent de Paul was abusive.The case goes back to August 2011 when Rita Vella was transferred from a highly specialized ward at Mater Dei Hospital to St Vincent ...

The Greywater Recycling System installed in Hellen Keller, Resource Center that will enable the reuse of treated water for garden irrigation was inauguratedtoday by Her Excellency, ThePresident Marie Louise Coleiro Preca. The installation is part of the globally recognized Alter Aqua program,which was introduced in 2011in the Maltese Islandsby The ...

La legge di bilancio italiana rischia di non rispettare il patto di stabilità. Il parere del ministro europeo degli affari economici è arrivato il 16 novembre. Tuttavia Bruxelles non boccia completamente la manovra del governo Renzi, e riconosce le difficoltà dell’Italia, in particolare riguardo ai terremoti nell’Italia centrale e all’accoglienza ...

Current peace talks on reuniting the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus are a “last chance” and five-party negotiations that include Turkey, Greece and the United Kingdom should start swiftly, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Nov. 13

Belgium enjoyed an eight-goal rout in World Cup qualifying on Sunday, and Cristiano Ronaldo managed just two — and missed a penalty — as Portugal also won.Belgium, which beat Estonia 8-1, and Switzerland extended their perfect starts to join Germany as the only European teams with four straight wins on ...

Emirates is offering three-night packages to Dubai starting from €499. The touring operating arm of Emirates is offering the sale on packages to Dubai, inclusive of passenger taxes. Travellers can choose from 3, 4, and 5-star luxury hotel packages for less. The packages include three-nights accommodation in a twin/sharing room, meet and ...

The Maltese government did not take instructions from any country to refuse permission for a Soviet tanker on its way to Syria to refuel in Malta, Foreign Minister George Vella said today, stating that Malta took this decision on its own.International and local media reported last week that the government ...

A full, three-hour long debate in the House on Thursday about the Budget vote for the Foreign Ministry did not tackle, except fleetingly, the elephant in the Chamber: Malta is the only EU country not in the anti-Isis coalition.According to the US State Department, the participants in the coalition are ...

Wardens will be employing an "education approach" when the new law banning smoking in cars with children as passengers comes into force on 1 January, warden service operator Kenneth De Martino said yesterday.In comments to The Malta Independent, he said enforcement on the ban on smoking in cars with children ...

French Foreign Minister Jena-Marc Ayrault visited Turkish Cyprus on Oct. 25, holding talks with Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı, as peace negotiations to end the more than 40-year-old conflict continue.

The law to be introduced in January, banning smoking in cars with children, will carry the lowest fines in Europe for such an offence, Health Minister Chris Fearne said today.Malta will become the sixth country in Europe to introduce such a ban, and anyone caught smoking in a vehicle carrying ...

Malta’s law against smoking in cars with children will be accompanied by the lowest fines in Europe when it comes into force in January, according to new details announced today. The country will become the sixth in Europe to introduce such a ban, announced in last week’s budget, which will subject ...

A United Nations human rights expert has urged the next UN secretary-general to make the elimination of tax havens a priority to ensure that corporations, billionaires and ‘kleptocrats’ pay their fair share of taxes.Speaking on Friday, American law professor Alfred de Zayas also urged Antonio Guterres, who will succeed Ban ...

The Maltese national team face Andorra in an international match in La Vella this evening (kick-off: 18.00), as they start their commitments in a revamped European Championship. This will be the first outing for Damien Neill’s men in the qualifying phase of the tournament following the introduction of a new format ...

The world's leading cruise company, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) will next year be deploying one of its vessels back in Malta, following an absence of eight years. Embellishing the historic Valletta harbour, NCL's newly refurbished Norwegian Spirit shall be starting and ending cruises from the Island. This was announced today ...

Work will begin as soon as possible for the interconnected electricity cable between Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), TRNC Economy and Energy Minister Sunat Atun told state-run Anadolu Agency on Oct. 11.

Four Maltese companies have been implicated in what the Italian authorities are describing as a ‘gigantic carousel fraud’, the Vicenza Guardia di Finanza reported yesterday.  The scam, which was perpetrated through 145 Italian companies and 35 companies outside of Italy, four of which were in Malta, saw €130 million being ...

The foreign minister of the Turkish Cypriot government has expressed his doubts that the ongoing Cyprus peace negotiations would yield a mutually acceptable result for both of the communities on the divided eastern Mediterranean island.