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Live - The Budget debate - Enemalta withheld €65m in taxes last year
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna is presenting the Budget for 2013 - the same Budget, with the same measures, as presented by the Nationalist government last December, when it was defeated Following...
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Polidano clearing illegal storage
Construction tycoons Charles and Paul Polidano have been clearing part of an illegal depot they had built at the back of their headquarters in Ħal Farruġ, The Sunday Times has learnt. Earlier in the...
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Shelter for horses may be demolished
A shelter in Valletta for karozzini horses may have to be demolished after a planning commission refused a request to sanction the structures built without a permit. Transport Malta submitted the...
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Ray Pace had told officer he had influenced drug trafficker's prison term
A former judge who has been charged with bribery, corruption and trading in influence had told assistant police commissioner Neil Harrison that had it not been for him, drug trafficker Darren Desira...
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GWU using Labour victory to boost membership
The General Workers’ Union is urging bank employees to resign from the union they form part of and join it instead “because a new government is in place”. Workers at Bank of Valletta and APS Bank said...
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Man, woman injured in separate accidents
A man and a woman were injured in separate traffic accidents at Floriana and Qormi this morning. In the first accident, at around 10.45am, a woman was was hit by a car as she was crossing the road...
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Updated: Bus crashes into pavement as driver falls ill
An Arriva bus driver has been hospitalised after he fell ill while driving a bus to its destination. According to unconfirmed reports, the driver suffered a heart attack. A spokesman for Arriva said...
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Updated: Court revokes Paul Borg Olivier arrest warrant, fine for contempt
A magistrate’s decision finding outgoing PN general secretary in contempt of court and fining him €70 was revoked shortly after it was handed down this morning after it was established that Dr Borg...
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Minister finds prison guards absent during surprise visit
The Home Affairs Minister has ordered an immediate investigation after he found several guards absent when he made a surprise visit to the prison yesterday evening. Minister Manuel Mallia turned up...
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Abuse victims say they have been 'abandoned'
Eleven men who were sexually abused by priests when they were boys have not heard from a therapeutic board set up by the Church six months ago to help then, according to Lawrence Grech, one of the...
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Man dies almost four months after accident
A 54-year-old man from Zabbar who was injured in a traffic accident in Marsascala on Christmas Eve passed away today, the police said. The man was hit by a car in Triq San Gwakkin. The car, a Toyota...
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The House of Representatives today paid tribute to a former MP who was elected first on the Labour list, and then that of the Nationalist Party. Marcel Mizzi, a Gozitan, passed away recently. He was...
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Tax cuts programme to be maintained
The previous government's programme to reduce the top rate of income tax over a period of three years will be maintained, Finance Minister Edward Scicluna confirmed this morning. The programme was...
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New institutions for stronger scrutiny
The Prime Minister this evening announced plans to set up a number of new institutions for stronger scrutiny. He said that a motion will be presented in Parliament next week for the setting up of a...
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Hunters react as CABS promise to employ every legal means to end spring hunting
Updated - adds hunters' reaction The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) has written to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat promising to employ every legal means to put an end to spring hunting in Malta....
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Board to look into prison practices
The Ministry of Home Affairs is to set up a board to issue recommendations for a reorganisation of practices at the prisons. The development follows a surprise visit to the prisons by Minister Manuel...
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MP donates defibrillator to parliament in maiden speech
Cardiologist Albert Fenech this afternoon donated a portable defibrillator to the House of Representatives as he was making his maiden speech in Parliament. The Nationalist MP said he was making the...
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Libya stops second ship carrying contraband fuel to Malta
A second ship suspected of ferrying contraband diesel to Malta from Libya has been impounded in Tripoli. The Libya Herald said that the Panamanian-registered Levante was stopped by a Libyan patrol...
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Men beat up employee who stopped them entering women's restroom
A 17-year-old man from Birzebbuga and his friend Marco Rapinett, 22, from Valletta have been put on probation for three years after they admitted beating up and slightly injuring a Burger King...
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Enemalta debt at €835m, corporation working on new oil hedging deal
Enemalta's debts have reached €835 million, Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi said in parliament this afternoon. He also announced that the corporation is seeking to capitalise on a recent dip in oil...
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