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Blame the law, not the judge - Dean of Faculty of Laws
The law sets the bar too high for an inquiry into suspected money laundering to take place, raising serious rule-of-law issues, the Dean of the Faculty of Laws believes, calling for a re-assessment of...
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Corinthia given rights to reclaim and build on peninsula seabed
The government has granted unlimited rights to the Corinthia Group to reclaim the seabed around the peninsula it occupies at St George’s Bay and build on it. According to a still unpublished draft...
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Suspected drug traffickers arrested in Marsa police raid
Weeks of observation culminated in a drugs raid in Marsa on Sunday, in which three men were arrested.Police said in a statement that the drugs squad had been monitoring premises in Triq it-Tigrija...
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Child, 5, seriously hurt in Mosta traffic incident
A five-year-old boy was seriously hurt when he bumped into a moving car while crossing the road in Mosta, the police said on Sunday evening. The child was crossing the road in Triq Nicolo’ Isourd when...
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Corinthia deal 'blatant case of land theft' - Graffitti
Moviment Graffitti has hit out at the Corinthia land deal, which it said would mean giving away public land “for a pittance”.Describing the proposed deal as “intrinsically wrong on every level”, the...
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Man charged with rape and harassment of colleague
A man has been remanded in custody on Monday after pleading not guilty to allegedly raping and harassing a work colleague. Marcel Andreas Ekvall Parada, a 24-year old Swedish national, residing in...
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Young PN activists ‘unwilling’ to toe the party line
Members of the Nationalist Party’s youth section are adamantly opposing attempts to endorse a unanimous resolution expressing confidence in embattled leader Adrian Delia, Times of Malta has learnt....
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Balcony collapses in Buġibba
A balcony collapsed in Triq ix-Xmun in Buġibba on Monday afternoon, fortunately at a time when no one was passing underneath. The photo was sent in by Times of Malta reader John Dalton. The police do...
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Leaks in the House: Speaker laments water damage to Parliament building
Valletta’s iconic parliament building is leaking during bad weather, raising concerns of structural and equipment damage, Speaker Anġlu Farrugia warned on Monday. “This is a problem that started three...
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Chadwick Lakes to be restored - PA
Chadwick Lakes is to restored and rehabilitated, with dams fixed, debris removed and an intrusive playground built in the 1990s removed. The rehabilitation project, which was approved by the Planning...
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Deborah Schembri and Robert Musumeci join forces
Former Labour parliamentary secretary Deborah Schembri and her advisor at her ministry, Robert Musumeci, have formed a new partnership to provide legal services to their clients which include...
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Busuttil identifies ‘avenues for justice’ on Panama Papers
It is not the end of the road for the Panama Papers scandal, with former Opposition leader Simon Busuttil saying that “a number of avenues for justice” remain. The Criminal Court last week turned...
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'I drank a bottle of vodka and tied a hangman’s noose'
A successful facade can hide a history of childhood violence that reaches far into adulthood. A young musician who was on the brink of killing himself shares his story with Ramona Depares in the hope...
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PN MPs left in the dark as Delia fails to reconvene group
Embattled Nationalist leader Adrian Delia has still not called a meeting of his parliamentary group despite the fact parliament will reconvene on Monday evening after the Christmas recess. In a...
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Seven bids for experts to help in Gozo tunnel preparations; talks underway...
A call for the selection of a contractor to design, build and operate the Malta-Gozo tunnel will be issued 'soon', Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg said on Monday. Seven bidders have responded to a...
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Unacceptable for NGO vessels to race the Libyan coastguard to pick up...
It was unacceptable that some NGO rescue vessels issued their coordinates on social media such that traffickers’ boats immediately homed in to them, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told Parliament on...
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Watch: Drew Abela saved seven lives. Now his grieving relatives want others...
Organ donors leave behind relatives who need all the support they can get, especially when they keep thinking about the physical remains of their loved ones, the parents of a 20-year-old donor say....
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Comino hotel and bungalows ‘mistakenly’ listed for €100m sale
The Comino hotel and bungalow complex were listed for sale by Engel and Volkers for €100 million, but the company said the listing was a fictitious one created for training purposes and mistakenly...
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Man plunges to his death in Ħamrun
A man doing cleaning work at Daniel’s Shopping Complex in Ħamrun fell two storeys to his death on Tuesday morning. The police said that the 65-year-old man from Żebbuġ fell to the ground by the...
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Families struck off children’s allowance list
A number of families have been struck off the children’s allowance list after being told that the department did not have their full details. Irate parents told Times of Malta that they were not even...
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