57+ min ago  (541+ words) Ivan Camilleri - 09. April. 2026 Senior health officials are perplexed by Health Minister Jo Etienne Abela's initiative to host a mega-party celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Medical School in Malta at the same time that a project to have a new medical…...

1+ day, 51+ min ago  (530+ words) Andrew Borg Cardona - 08. April. 2026 I've always found it a touch ironic how the word "developer" has acquired such a negative tinge, rather like "conservationist" after bird killers and trappers appropriated it. In any case, Malta's developers have now been seized…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1027+ words) Kevin Cassar - 07. April. 2026 Magistrate Lara Lanfranco has decreed that Vitals and Steward Health Care CEO Armin Ernst will face trial over his role in the fraudulent hospitals concession. The court was presented with sufficient evidence to charge Ernst with serious…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (572+ words) Ivan Camilleri - 07. April. 2026 The government is contradicting, and ultimately weakening, its own legal position previously presented before the Public Contracts Review Board, to justify awarding an unprecedented "120 million direct order to a consortium led by Bonnici Brothers, former clients and…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (801+ words) Kevin Cassar - 04. April. 2026 When Robert Abela ascended the steps of Castille, wide-eyed and bushy-tailed in January 2020, the national debt stood at "5. 7 billion. Just six short years later, it's "11. 4 billion. That's a doubling of our national debt. Abela has single-handedly created…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (516+ words) The Shift Team - 04. April. 2026 Sharlon Pace, the developer businessman behind Gzira's premier league football club, has filed a planning application to sanction the illegal development of a large-scale padel facility on Manoel Island, following completion of the works without a…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (568+ words) Julian Delia - 03. April. 2026 A collapse adjacent to roadworks currently being carried out for a major construction project in Xemxija, the second one to occur near the site in as many months, has aggravated concerns expressed by nearby residents who sought…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (572+ words) Caroline Muscat - 01. April. 2026 Ten years after Malta brought Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights into force at an international level, it "is still not part of the laws of Malta," according to a statement by the Ombudsman…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (436+ words) A young architect who used to work full-time for Gozitan developer Joseph Portelli and his associates has been appointed to a Planning Authority Commission responsible for deciding development permits, including the regularisation of illegal works. Manuela Mercieca Sultana, an architect…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (554+ words) Public Broadcasting Services, under the remit of Culture Minister Owen Bonnici, is refusing to publish details of payments made to Sigmund Mifsud, the former National Orchestra CEO who is currently facing serious criminal charges in court, as multiple government entities…...