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It’s Times of Malta again
Thirty-five years after a Mintoff-era law clipped ‘Malta’ from its name, The Times will tomorrow return to its original identity. Rebranding the daily and Sunday editions as Times of Malta and The...
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Blood test shows results of indulging in ‘favourite sins’
A vial of congealed blood from a donor who ate pastizzi moments before giving blood raised eyebrows at a blood drive yesterday. Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia was joined by his predecessor Joe...
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Hunting inside nature reserve claims untrue - FKNK
The hunters’ federation this evening denied claims by BirdLife Malta that it had photographed two men hunting inside the Għadira Nature Reserve protected buffer zone. In a statement, the FKNK said the...
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Crowds turn up to enjoy fireworks festival
The Malta International Fireworks Festival continues from Ghajn Tuffieha tomorrow with competitive displays. The festival started in Marsaxlokk yesterday when thousands of people turned up to watch...
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Updated: 280 donate blood
A total 280 people gave blood today in a donation drive organised by Xarabank in collaboration with TVM and the Blood Bank. More than half were first time donors. Those taking part in the drive...
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Smart City head promises tenants in the coming weeks
The new head of Smart City Dubai, Abdullatif AlMulla, has promised new tenants for the Maltese ICT city in the coming weeks and expressed confidence in the interest being shown by local and...
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Claudette Abela Baldacchino will not seek immunity
Labour MEP Claudette Abela Baldacchino said today she is determined to prove her innocence through the natural course of justice. She said in a statement that she submitted her nomination for the...
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Hype, not hunting, harming tourism - hunters
Ecological tourism to Malta is being damaged not by hunting but by the hype around it, the hunters’ federation and St Hubert Hunters said. They said in a statement this evening that this was confirmed...
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Alfred Sant's 'George Bush f’Malta' launched
Former Prime Minister and Labour Leader Alfred Sant this morning launched his new book George Bush f’Malta. The novel, in the Maltese language, is Dr Sant’s 20th publication, mostly other novels. At...
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Dalligate witness contradicts previous court evidence on the threats she...
A key police witness in the Dalligate case before the Maltese courts has given evidence contradicting previous information disclosed before the presiding magistrate in December. Lawyer Gayle...
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Attard girl is Miss World Malta 2013
Donna Borg Leyland, 21, of Attard, was last night crowned winner of Miss World Malta 2013. Maria Galea, placed second, Christine Mifsud, third. The contest was organised by Modelle International...
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Two men injured in Gudja collision
Two men were injured in a traffic collision in Triq l-Avjazzjoni, Gudja at 8am, the police said. They are not in a criticial condition. The police said the head on collision was between a Ferrari that...
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Permanent residence scheme to be re-launched by end of May
The government will be re-launching the permanent residence scheme by the end of May, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this morning. He said this was a scheme through which many foreigners had been...
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Zejtun archpriest passes away
Zejtun archpriest Fr Eric Overend died today, aged 47, shortly after being admitted to hospital. His mother Carmen (Lilly) died two days ago. Fr Overend was a member of the Church’s Environment...
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When Gaddafi threatened an oil spill off Malta: an untold story of the Libyan...
Barely three weeks before the fall of Tripoli, Gaddafi loyalists had threatened to spill 250,000 barrels of gasoline off Malta’s shores from a Libyan tanker caught up in the middle of UN sanctions in...
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La Valette sword to be returned... on loan
The famed sword and dagger belonging to Grand Master Jean Parisot de La Valette will be loaned to Malta by the Louvre Museum when the Maltese Capital takes on the title of European Culture Capital in...
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Franco Debono gets Carm Mifsud Bonnici's old car
Commissioner for Laws Franco Debono has been granted a driver and a Volkswagen Passat car which was once used by then parliamentary secretary Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici. Dr Debono caused Dr Mifsud...
View ArticleLabour reveals that it is €3.3 million in the black
The Labour Party closed its 2012 financial year with a consolidated fund of €3.3 million, boost-ed by a €65,155 operating profit, according to abridged accounts published this weekend. This means the...
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OLAF’S case against John Dalli hinges on phone calls
The “unambiguous circumstantial evidence” against John Dalli made in the report by OLAF, the EU anti-fraud agency, hinges on phone calls that coincide with key dates in the case. It also hinges on the...
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Rapists’ names on child offenders register
Eleven men, including two who were convicted of raping their own daughters, are listed on the child offenders register, according to the Home Affairs’ Ministry. The register came into force in January...
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