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A multi-million upgrade of Romeo Romano Gardens in Santa Venera will begin soon, the Environment Minister said on Wednesday, with an initial phase expected to be wrapped up within nine months.  The regeneration will include the restoration of historical features and a kitchen garden similar to the popular one behind San Anton Gardens in Attard. Romeo Romano Gardens date back to the 1500s and are Maltas second-largest gardens, after San Anton. Part of the gardens are currently closed off to pub...

The wife and adopted daughter of a Maltese man who died from COVID-19 in India arrived safely in Malta on Sunday evening.  Ivan Barbara, 47, died on Frida

A group of some 20 people gathered in St Julian’s on Sunday to protest against COVID-19 measures which they say are not based on scientific evidence.  They carried placards reading ‘No Mask. No Forced Vax. No Vax Passport’ and ‘Stand for Freedom’. While most were wearing a mask, some were not, in breach of COVID-19 regulations which also prohibit gatherings of more than four people from different households. Protestors arguing with the police. Photo: Jonathan Borg During the protest,...

A modernist house in Balzan is set to be demolished to pave way for a block of flats despite a group of architects last-ditch effort to save it. In a vote on Wednesday, the planning commission board voted in favour of an application to tear down the circa 1960s building called Walmarville, but known as Diamond House, because of its distinctive glass panels. The building on Old Railway Street, will make way for a maisonette and three apartments, including a pool at penthouse level, with a garage...

A plumber during the pandemic? Most of us want things we know to be impossible. And, yet, the most common dreams allegedly involve one’s teeth falling out, flying through the sky and being chased or hunted. Were I a dream interpreter, I would say you wish you could afford a foreign holiday but are being pursued by a dentist waving an unpaid bill. He clearly wants a foreign holiday as well. Our own ambitious dreams have had to be revised downwards in the light of recent events. There is a Burm...

The Globe and Mail Christopher Scicluna Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Jonathan Borg/The Associated Press A man who has admitted to taking part in the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia gave his first detailed account of the plot on Thursday, telling a court how the anti-corr...

A number of criminal charges against the driver and four directors of a sightseeing bus tour operator charged over a fatal double-decker bus incident almost thr

Man jailed for 15 years for murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car-bomb explosion in October 2017. By AFP Tuesday 23 Feb 2021, 5:26 PM Feb 23rd 2021, 5:26 PM 12,947 Views 0 Comments A vigil to Daphne Caruana Galizia outside the courts in Valletta, October 2018. Image: ...

Where’s the jab? I read on The Sunday Telegraph) that in the UK (population 60m+) all the over-50s will have been offered the vaccine by mid-April and all adults will be dealt with before the summer holidays. And, yet, in Malta (pop 400,000+), we haven’t yet got round to inoculating the over-75s. Are we really doing as well, here, as the government pretends? Revel Barker – Għajnsielem Photo: Jonathan Borg Were a law passed that would prohibit the creation of new detergents or the use o...

On the first day of 1759, a Monday, Rev Dr Ignazio Saverio Mifsud – an erudite preacher who left all the sermons and panegyrics he wrote to our National Library in Valletta [see Joe Zammit Ciantar, Il-Priedki bil-Malti ta’ Ignazio Saverio Mifsud, Malta 2008] – starts his Giornale Maltese [a sort of a diary, National Library of Malta, MS 13, pp. 1 and 2] by giving details on how much money he used to give to relatives, neighbours and friends on the occasion of L-Istrina. He writes: “Il s...