St Venera tunnels to close due to fireworks
For the first time since 2007, the St Venera tunnels will be closed for two hours this evening. This closure is due to police permission being granted for letting off fireworks from a field next to...
View Article112 immigrants disembark at Hay Wharf
A fresh group of irregular immigrants was saved yesterday night by the AFM. At about 22.30h, a group of 112 irregular migrnats, 42 men, 15 women and 55 children, disembarked at Hay Wharf. They were...
View ArticleGovernment setting up Employability Index – Prime Minister Muscat
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that bureaucracy is one of the main priorities of the present administration. He said that the civil service, while having several good employees, justify bureaucracy....
View ArticleGovernment should not retain the services of persons infringing codes of...
Leader of the Nationalist Party Simon Busuttil said that the opposition is ready to help government in getting Europe to take more immigrants. He said that the situation had both short term and long...
View ArticleThree million estimated to have attended Pope’s mass in Copacabana
Pope Francis closed the biggest-ever Roman Catholic World Youth Day event with a Mass on Brazil's Copacabana beach. Up to three million people are estimated to have gathered for the service in the city...
View ArticleItaly: 38 dead as coach plunges off flyover
At least 38 people died after a coach plunged off a flyover in Avellino, southern Italy. Media sources are claiming that another ten people are in danger of dying; most of the persons on board were...
View ArticleYouth Critically Injured in Traffic Accident
[23video id="8487440" token="f16d7ae06ff1f040871b3c9bc834d20e" width="665" height="374"] A 20-year-old driver is in danger of dying following a traffic accident at 6:15a.m., in Oliver Agius Street,...
View ArticleCliff diving against the body’s nature – Dr Michael Spiteri
[23video id="8487187" token="69cb91025141f0c3634bcbd0ec65b2d7" width="665" height="374"] The number of persons suffering spinal injuries as a result of cliff dives in Comino, during the past seven...
View ArticleFirst Breeding record of Little Ringed Plovers at Salina
Members of the Aquilarus Bird Study Group reported the first breeding record of the Little Ringed Plover (Monakella in Maltese) at the Salina Salt Pans with the adult birds & 3 chicks first...
View ArticleMursi supporters defy the army and march on the military intelligence building
Thousands of supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi have defied an army warning and marched on a military facility in Cairo. They set off from the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in northern...
View ArticleGovernment to provide tools for Consuls to enhance Malta’s international and...
[23video id="8488654" token="5d6bfa106db0ec88e5c3b0189ebd089b" width="665" height="374"] The government aims at bringing investment to Malta through its network of Honorary Consuls, said Minister for...
View ArticleDrug related sentences could be revised – P.S. Owen Bonnici
[23video id="8487311" token="02526228e5dc50d22404ac63160a8184" width="665" height="374"] Those facing drug related accusations could avoid being handed a prison term, said Parliamentary Secretary...
View ArticleAccountants body elects first female president
The Malta Institute of Accountants (MIA) elected Maria Micallef as its first female president since it was set up in 1942. She will serve a two-year term. MIA, which is the representative body of the...
View ArticleInexistent Maltese-Islamic culture – Muslim Maltese man
[23video id="8487556" token="6f280200b120babe825dfdbb21a3f48a" width="665" height="374"] While Islam is practiced in Malta, however, an actual Maltese-Islamic culture is nonexistent locally, said a...
View ArticleJason Galea admits to killing Matthew Zahra – Police Inspector Pullicino
In the compilation of evidence, court heard how Jason Galea, when pressed with proof linking him to the Matthew Zahra murder, admitted to killing him. Police Inspector Chris Pullicino , said that Jason...
View ArticleMCCAA building roof to be removed
[23video id="8488534" token="d57a88dbdc483b3f7ea40af74a69877f" width="665" height="374"] The roof of the Malta Competition and Consumers Affairs Authority building will be removed next month. The...
View ArticleUpdated: Suspected financial abuses at Marsascala Family Park
[23video id="8488719" token="08235d80e3be366c8fa59b4c2aa8ba3c" width="665" height="374"] Findings by a report on the Marsascala Family Park, raised eyebrows over possible abuses with variations costs...
View ArticleUpdated: Child wielding a toy gun wreaks havoc on a bus
A 13-year-old child wreaked havoc on board an Arriva bus this morning in Sliema, after reportedly wielding a toy gun. To passers-by the gun looked too realistic, and immediately alerted the police....
View ArticleGregory Attard conquers Gasherbrums’ mountain tops
There’s no stopping Maltese mountain climber, Gregory Attard, who successfully climbed the second of his two 8000m mountains in a week in Pakistan, this morning. Despite celebrating such a world class...
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