• I DO Magazine: Country Blossom... Laureen & Clint

    The Couple: Laureen & Clint24 July 2016Laureen Spiteri, 33, Sales & Operation Manager at Tunin Entertainment and Clint Agius, 35, Technical Architect (I.T.) held their ceremony at St Matthew’s Chapel, Qrendi before a reception at Falconry Malta, SiggiewiLove is a great feeling and when a man is in love nothing ...

  • Wine producers facing huge challenges due to harsh weather, ageing population of farmers

    The demand for local wine is high but production is facing huge challenges and urgent measures need to be taken if the craft is to survive. Low rainfall and blazing heatwaves have brought about a poor harvest for Malta’s largest winemakers, Marsovin. Harvest production from this last season dropped by ...

  • Fewer households who can’t make ends meet

    Fewer people in Malta are in a situation where they can’t make ends meet, according to figures released Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical agency.The figures show that, in 2016, only 6.6 per cent of the households were finding great difficulty to make ends meet. According to the data provided, the ...

  • Today's front pages

    Drivers using their mobile phones need to watch out as the Times of Malta reports that the Malta Insurance Association is urging the police to consider applying the harshest of penalties for infringements. It also notes that all the four candidates contesting the PN leadership election will be subjected to ...

  • In-form Farrugia ready for England test

    Jean Paul Farrugia is looking to carry his rich goalscoring form into Malta's upcoming World Cup qualifiers against England and Scotland. Farrugia, who is making a return to the national team fold after missing the Slovenia trip through suspension, has enjoyed an impressive start to the season with his new club ...

  • "Harshest" sanctions urged for drivers using mobile phones

    Motorists using mobile phones while driving should face tougher sanctions, says Malta Insurance Association head Adrian Galea, insisting that enforcement be steeped up. “A strong deterrent is needed to curb the increased use of mobile phones while driving,” Mr Galea, the association’s director general, said. He was commenting in the wake of ...

  • Maltese Language Academy concerned with plans to redevelop Villa Frere

    The Maltese Language Academy notes with disappointment the pending proposal for two villas in Pieta to be developed into homes for the elderly."It is so disappointing to see that buildings with historical links to our language are being used for speculation and for wealth generation", the Academy said in a ...

  • Watch: Autumn hunting season begins on Friday - BirdLife expresses its concerns

    Updated with government reaction at 4.50pm - Birdlife Malta has presented a letter to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat expressing its concerns about the upcoming hunting season, which opens on Friday.  CEO Mark Sultana implored the government to show it would not tolerate any illegalities. He said the Ornis Committee always met before ...

  • Traffic arrangements at Ta’ Qali for Friday’s Malta-England match

    The Police Force, in collaboration with the Malta Football Association, has made special arrangements on the occasion of next Friday’s World Cup qualifier between England and Malta.Addressing a news conference yesterday, Angelo Chetcuti, MFA general secretary, said that this was a massive match to organise, but the association was convinced ...

  • Updated: Government says Ornis committee board has been appointed

    The autumn hunting season is to start on Friday and yet the Ornis Committee which is supposed to oversee the practice has not yet been appointed, BirdLife Malta said today. The government in a statement however, said that the board has already been approved.The NGO said it is concerned that ...

  • Stray cats cause damage to local reptile fauna, vet says

    In the late 1980s, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species act was approved in Malta. It aimed to regulate the import and export of endangered species. This helped to alleviate the pressure that was being placed on wild populations of animals by over-collection for the pet trade. However, ...

  • Christian Season of Creation to be held between 1 September, 4 October

    The 2017 Christian Season of Creation (1 September to 4 October) in Malta and Gozo will be launched by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna during a Solemn Mass at St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, on Saturday 2 September, at 6pm. The Mass will follow prayers for creation which will be said in ...

  • Bank of Valletta named Preferred Partner of Valletta 2018 Foundation

    Bank of Valletta has been named the Preferred Partner of Valletta 2018 Foundation, leading up to the European Capital of Culture in 2018.The partnership was announcedduring a brief ceremony held at The House of The Four Winds in Valletta and addressed by BOV Chairman Deo Scerri and Valletta 2018 Foundation ...

  • Conservative Chile close to legalising gay marriage

    Chilean President Michelle Bachelet today sent Congress a bill that would legalise gay marriage, a move that follows a string of liberal reforms in one of Latin America's most conservative nations. In 2015, Chile's Congress approved same sex civil unions after years of legislative wrangling. In March, Bachelet, a centre-left politician, ...

  • One in three countries still have blasphemy laws

    Laws prohibiting blasphemy are "astonishingly widespread" worldwide, with many laying down disproportionate punishments ranging from prison sentences to lashings or the death penalty, the lead author of a report on blasphemy has said. Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen score worst, topping a list of 71 countries with laws criminalising views deemed blasphemous, ...

  • EuroMillions Lottery – now available online in Malta

    EuroMillions is one of the most popular European lotteries and thanks to Jackpot.com we can now play from Malta too.Betting on the EuroMillions is as close to participating in the actual lottery as one can get. Instead of buying a physical ticket, you can bet on the outcome of the ...

  • TMID Editorial: Sick leave - A greedy proposal that deserves to be binned

    People seem to be so distracted by the unfolding drama in the PN leadership election that the public reaction to very controversial sick leave proposal by the Malta Employers Association was nowhere as strong as it deserved to be. Earlier this week the MEA presented its pre-budget proposals, which included ...

  • Lisboa vai receber X Congresso dos Portos de Língua Portuguesa

    Evento terá lugar a 11 e 12 de setembro, na Gare Marítima de Alcântara, coma presença garantida de Ana Paula Vitorino, ministra do Mar, e de Fernando Medina, presidente da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.

  • Alleged Libyan fuel smuggler with Malta connection arrested

    A Libyan accused by the UN of being involved in fuel smuggling via Malta has been arrested in Libya, according to Rada Special Deterrence Force. Libyan Interior Minister Aref Khoja confirmed that the man described by Rada as the ‘‘king of smuggling’’ had been arrested in an interview today with La ...

  • PN candidates reveal their assets and interests

    Chris Said has pulled ahead of the other three PN leadership candidates in one area – in providing information about his assets and business interests. So far he is the only one to have supplied all the information requested in a due diligence exercise being conducted by The Sunday Times of ...

  • National Council 'should not have' absolute power over Maltese

    The law that gives the National Council for the Maltese Language absolute power over Maltese is wrong, according to Roderick Bovingdon, who is active in the promotion of Maltese culture, language and literature in Australia. For Mr Bovingdon, there should be no one, or no one entity, with such power. On ...