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Prime Minister Robert Abela on Thursday inaugurated the Marsa flyover project, describing it as the largest ever infrastructure investment in Malta. Abela said the €70 million, seven-lane flyover was the result of an ambitious plan the government has for the country.  He vowed that Malta would be ready to start competing again in the global market once the COVID-19 pandemic was over. Abela said infrastructure projects such as this were vital for Malta's competitive edge.  Video: DOI The Prime Minister emphasised how the government had forged ahead with such projects despite the pandemic. ...

Activists camping in Dingli to block works on a controversial “road to nowhere” cutting through fields have agreed to stand down after the authorities reduced the road’s width by a fifth. The scaling down of the project connecting Sienja and Muzew alleys with Don Bosco street will also ensure no more carob trees are destroyed and a Medieval chapel in the area is further protected, although its environmental context will be ruined. Two centuries-old trees have already been destroyed as part of the road-building works. Moviment Graffitti activists who halted the Infrastructure Malta proje...

Infrastructure Malta has built more than roads but also a reputation for having a dubious relationship with the rules. Jessica Arena looks at the evidence. When Infrastructure Malta swooped down recently on a quiet residential road in Żebbuġ and started to widen it, the action raised the ire of residents, as well as environmentalists, who held that  the works breached all road policies.  This reaction was hardly a first for the government agency that oversees construction projects.  Since its founding in the summer of 2018, IM has prided itself on getting things done. But the way it ste...

The widening of a residential road in Żebbuġ last week went against all road policies and Infrastructure Malta should have consulted with the Planning Authority beforehand, environmentalists are insisting. On Wednesday, IM workers, escorted by the police, descended on Triq il-Fraxxnu to clear part of a fruit garden to widen the road. Residents and the local council said they were unaware of the impending works, with independent councillor Steve Zammit Lupi sitting on a wall in the path of excavators to highlight his opposition. IM said the works on the 70-metre road “which had never been ...

An internal Enemalta audit into the Montenegro wind farm scandal has found due diligence omissions and a lack of professional scepticism by Enemalta’s board about the deal. Times of Malta and Reuters last year exposed how 17 Black owner and murder suspect Yorgen Fenech walked away from the deal with a €4.6 million profit after secretly financing an intermediary used to sell the wind farm project shares to Enemalta.  The intermediary, Cifidex, was owned by Turab Musayev, who was on the Electrogas consortium board along with Fenech. RELATED STORIES Musayev has denied any wrongdoing. The a...