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No need for a second republic - Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici
Former prime minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici has questioned the Government's drive to amend the Constitution and create "a second republic". He insisted the creation of second republic meant the...
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Tonio Portughese to be PBS chairman
Tonio Portughese is set to be appointed chairman of PBS, sources in the government have confirmed. He will succeed Joseph Mizzi. Albert Marshall will be deputy chairman. Other members on the board are...
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Arms CEO stands to lose €50,000 bonus
Suspended ARMS CEO Wilfred Borg stands to lose a €50,000 bonus if he is forced out of his job. The bonus is automatically payable if Mr Borg, who has so far defied Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi’s calls...
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Hooded hunter fined €4,658
Christian Gauci, 27 of Mellieha, a hooded hunter arrested at the Natura 2000 nature reserve in Mellieha, was today fined €4,658 by the Magistrates' Court. He was also banned from hunting for three...
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Franco Mercieca risks being reported to Medical Council
Eye surgeon Franco Mercieca risks being reported to the Medical Council for a breach of ethics by fellow ophthalmologist Thomas Fenech. Mr Fenech insists that claims made by Mr Mercieca about his own...
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Update 3 - New waste plant approved in long, tense meeting
The Mepa board this afternoon approved the building of a waste recycling plant at Maghtab which will handle almost three times as much waste as the Sant'Antnin plant. The project was approved with 10...
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Women admit advertising for prostitution
Four women this morning pleaded guilty to advertising themselves for purposes of prostitution in Malta. The four were accused of having advertised for prostitution on a website. Annette Gibbs,60, and...
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Charge error reduces ‘reckless’ driver fine
A driver who failed to stop at a red light and ran over a man on a pedestrian crossing has been fined €232 and had her licence revoked for three months. In the judgment, Magistrate Audrey Demicoli...
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Updated - Birdlife warns it may leave hunting derogation monitoring board
Updated - Adds FKNK statement Birdlife said today that it may consider its membership of a government-appointed board monitoring the spring hunting derogation unless an 'FKNK official' was suspended...
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BBC site highlights illegal hunting in Malta
The BBC website has highlighted illegal bird hunting in Malta, featuring a series of pictures of injured birds and other birds rescued by BirdLife. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/22251513 A BBC...
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Motorcyclist hit by car after skid
A motorcyclist was hit by a car after he fell off his bike when it skidded in Kalkara this evening. The police said the motorcyclist, a 46-year-old man from Cospicua, was driving a Honda CB 1000SF in...
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Ghajn Tuffieha kiosk owners protest over weekend closure call
The owners of a wooden kiosk at the bottom of Ghajn Tuffieha Bay have filed a judicial protest against the Malta Tourism Authority and the police after they were instructed by the latter to keep their...
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Calleja sets the tone on PM's first day in Paris
The notes of Malta’s national anthem reverberated across the historic walls of Cathédral Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris tonight propelled by the timbre of Joseph Calleja’s voice. Widely regarded...
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Mita board appointed
Tony Sultana has been appointed executive chairman of MITA, the government's IT agency. The board members are Joseph Agius, Saviour Baldacchino, Tony Borg and Helen Borg Muscat. The appointments were...
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Tornado at the airport
A Tornado fighter-bomber takes off from Malta International Airport this morning. The aircraft arrived from the UK yesterday on a delivery flight to the Royal Saudi Air Force.
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Update 2 - EP casual elections under way - Busuttil, de Marco visit counting...
Vote-counting is well under way in Naxxar in three casual elections being held to fill seats vacated by Simon Busuttil, Louis Grech and Edward Scicluna. The three MEPs resigned upon their election to...
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Dalligate: Under-attack Kessler urges Malta to publish Olaf report
Updated 1.20 p.m. A German MEP Inge Graessle has described the situation at the EU anti fraud agency OLAF as “a fire out of control”, after an audit report revealed serious irregularities with the...
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Woman hurt in multiple crash in Zebbug
A woman was injured in a crash in Zebbug which involved five cars. The crash took place on the road near St Dorothy's School at about 2 p.m. People on the scene said the accident was sparked when two...
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Woman kept girls who ran away from home at her apartment
A 32-year-old woman from Zejtun, Chantelle Desira, has been jailed for 18 months and fined €1,500 after admitting to giving drugs to two girls. The girls, both teenagers, had run away from a care...
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Commissioner denies involvement in 1985 brutality claims
Police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit has denied that he oversaw police brutality in 1985. “I was never involved in any heavy-handed policing and the facts of this particular case were not those...
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