Police Inspector Taliana files libel case
The Police officer involved in the unjust arraignment has decided to file a libel against a local newspaper on the basis of defamation. Police Inspector Elton Taliana filed a court application against...
View ArticleReplacements at Public Accounts Committee announced
During a meeting of the public accounts committee this morning it was announced who will be the two MP's who will replace ex Minister Tonio Fenech and current Minister for Energy and Water Conservation...
View ArticleUpdate 3. Dates for Autumn Hunting season announced
[23video id="8549359" token="4b1e023c8325fa0f8093b17c1660f14c" width="665" height="374"] Updated at 7.30pm with Government's reaction Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal...
View ArticleLess Maltese suffering from heart problems
Researchers from the Oxford University have proof that in the past three decades less people in Malta have lost their lives due to heart failures when compared to other European countries. Nonetheless...
View ArticleRail fares to rise by 4.1% in January 2014
Rail users will face an increase of around 4.1% in fares in the new year after new inflation figures were revealed. Campaigners have been protesting at 50 train stations across the country against the...
View ArticleFavourite Ibrahim Boubacar Keita wins Mali’s presidential election
The man tipped to win Mali’s presidential election has done just that. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita had already swept the July 28 first round with nearly 40 percent. Now even though no official results have...
View ArticleKerry: Israeli settlements move was expected
The US has urged the Palestinians "not to react adversely" to Israel's approval of 1,200 new settlement homes only days before peace talks resume. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday's move was...
View ArticleAFM & US Navy share EOD practices
The U.S. Navy recently sent a group of five sailors to Malta for a bilateral theater security cooperation event with the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM). On 11 and 12 August, the Explosives Ordinance...
View ArticleMan hospitalized after crane topples
A 52 year old man has been hospitalized after a crane which was being operated in a construction site in Rabat toppled. The accident happened at around 3pm. The crane was not being operated by the...
View Article80% of Cospicua project to be completed by next month
Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Joe Mizzi has said that road works in Cospicua as part of the Dock One area rehabilitation project have been completed, several weeks ahead of the new...
View ArticleMFSA with record number of complaints
The MFSA registered an record number of complaints in 2012 within the its Financial Services section. The Authority's annual report makes a series of recommendations among them financial services...
View ArticleUpdate 2. Malta Enterprise cancels Solar Energy Grant
Malta Enterprise has just announced that it has decided to to cancel the Solar Energy Grant 2013 due to technical problems encountered in the process of pre selection of suppliers. The decision was...
View ArticleHello, comes with a smile as mobile rates go downs
Official public mobile telephony figures show that three out of every ten mobile subscribers has a minimum of two mobile subscriptions. In the last three years the Maltese mobile phone companies have...
View ArticleChurch is not responsible for ex Priests’ abuse – Curia
The Curia today replied in writing in court in reaction to the civil lawsuit which was filed by the men that were sexually abused more than two decades ago namely by by Lawrence Grech, Joseph Magro,...
View ArticleQuestions raised over sentences handed by European court of Human Rights
Malta's ex Ambassador for the European Council Dr Joseph Licari has raised questions over the recent sentences handed over against the Maltese government by the European Court of Human Rights. In an...
View ArticleFinal touches for Pjazza Teatru Rjal’s backstage quarters
Works at Pjazza Teatru Rjal will be finalized by the end of this month. Once all the project is finished, total expenditure of the theatre site amounts to about €10 million. TVM crew discovered more...
View ArticleSuspended jail term for assaulting sister-in-law
Robert Agius, 29 of St Paul's Bay was given a two year jail term suspended for four and fined €900, after pleading guilty to grievously injuring his brother's wife. On 10 August, at around 6pm, Agius...
View ArticleEuro area no longer in recession
The euro area has emerged from recession after a record 18 months of economic contraction. GDP rose by 0.3% in both the euro area (EA17) and the EU27 during the second quarter of 2013, compared with...
View ArticleMEP & Archbishop discuss social issues
MEP Claudette Abela Baldacchino today met Archbishop Paul Cremona. During the meeting they agreed that it is necessary that the voice of those in need should be heard on a European level, namely the...
View ArticleMore bloodshed in Egypt
Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday when they moved in to clear a camp of Cairo protesters demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, his Muslim...
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